Robots - May 5, 2014

THOUGHTS:

Some weeks I just can't help but turn heavenward and ask God why there are so many wicked people in Manchester.

I have a testimony of the Book of Mormon. Whatever questions I come up with and try to muscle through, I know that this is the Church of Jesus Christ simply because of the Book of Mormon.

Make it a goal to remove yourself from conversation, action, and even thought, and you will learn how to REALLY serve.

This isn't about me at all.

If you want specific answers to your prayers, you need to be specific. 

We are moving apartments, hopefully. Sister Collins and I CANNOT take the abuse next door. Sunday we walked over to one of the members to study, for the first time in months I could hear myself think. Just goes to show that the Spirit can work through you, not always your environment. A home must be a "safe haven from the world."

On a more positive note: MARIA AND KAITANA ARE GETTING BAPTIZED IN HANOVER. If any of you remember Maria, she was the cute Irish woman, DEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP Catholic upbringing. I've never met anyone who has showed her love for people more than Maria. I am so happy for her. So happy that Sister Turley gets to see people being baptized!!

Speaking of baptism...... SEAN HAS AGREED TO BE BAPTIZED. SEAN. We have permission from President Stoker to go through with it, he doesn't have to quit his job. We drew a triangle with us, him and Heavenly Father on each of the points. We circled the connection between Him and God and told him that this is what everything is all about - building the connection between him and his Father in Heaven. We're still working on a specific date, but we are SO EXCITED.

Hopefully this week we'll have time to get around to the potential pool we've gathered. We may have some exciting news next week!!

Study revelation:

I've read Alma 7:13 probably around 500 times. NEVER BEFORE had I caught the doctrine in the beginning of the chapter! The SPIRIT could have told Christ all that we go through, but He experienced it IN THE FLESH. It's the difference between knowing what a person is experiencing during a heart attack and knowing the symptoms verses actually having the heart attack. It is necessary for Him to have experienced what He did, if not justice would have a hold on all of us. My mind wrapped around the Atonement in a different way.