Dear Family,
I am so very blessed. I love
you all so much. Thank you for your emails and words of support and
encouragement. A mission is really hard for some people, but it´s the easiest
thing in the world for me because I have all of you back home rooting for me! I
had an incredible week. I´m learning so much about faith. Pres. Dalton let
everyone read Calling Down the Powers of Heaven by Grant Von Harrison. I´ve
been studying it for a while now and it has really helped me exercise faith as
a principle of power. There are some things that are out of our control, but
there are many, many things that can be controlled by the powers of
heaven. Something
interesting I´ve learned is that the Lord will always try our faith. He wants
to see how bad we want it, he wants us to depend on Him, and he wants us to be
purified, be cleansed and grow in the process. Tribulations are blessings!
"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience;
and experience, hope" Romans 5: 3-4
I remembered Elder Uchtdorf´s talk about being grateful in all
circumstances. The Lord has a perfect plan. He is letting us participate in
this mortal life. We are already eternally indebted to Him for His son Jesus
Christ and the atonement. He has been so good to us. We should thank Him for
the good times and for the hard times. He really loves us.
We have some great people that will be baptized this weekend.
One family, specifically, is going to be very special. They are family members
of a young woman who has been going to church on her own for the last three
years. Her family just barely started to accept the church and most of them
will be baptized this weekend. Her aunt, cousin and sisters. Her parents will
just take a little longer because we had to mark their wedding this last
weekend, so they won´t be baptized until December. The church is true!Love you all!
Elder Barker
"As we act in faith we often find that the blessings of the Lord are much different than we expected, but much better than we imagined." - Elder Neil L. Anderson
I forgot to tell B-ridge happy birthday! Happy Birthday
little brother, hope you had a great one! Now you can do home teaching visits,
yess. (And go to stake dances ;) )
Love you!
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