Momma!
Haha it's weird, I am emailing on my
iPad because the computers are down again. But it is really fun out here I am
doing really well. Conference was really good for me I saw almost all of it,
only missed priesthood and the Sunday evening session. The only advice that I
could come up with for you is to just think about Moroni 10:3-5, it says that
you need to have real intent before you can receive an answer to a prayer. I
use that scripture every time I tech someone about prayer, but real intent is
something more than that. I've only realized this recently so bare with me. We
have to show real intent at many times of our lives, when we want to know If
the church is true we show our real intent to God when we are baptized or when
we live all the commandments as we should, God isn't going to show us anything
that we want to know if we aren't putting in the effort we need to in order to
act on the answer we receive. So just by us trying to live the commandments and
doing the things we are supposed to do, we show God that we are worthy of
receiving e answer we need. The answer we get might not always come in the way
that we expect, but that's where the faith comes in. Do you remember Indiana
Jones and the last crusade, when he was trying to do all of the challenges in
the end? One of them was a "leap of faith" he had to take that first
step onto that invisible bridge, and only when he made that first step was when
he thought to throw the sand onto the bridge to see it. That's the way that we
have to work with things we might be skeptical about. We have to make that
first step before we can know whether it's the right thing or not, or whether
God will bless for the things that we are doing. The talk that spoke to me the
most was uchtdorfs as well, being on my mission I have noticed more and more
how simple things actually are. We follow the commandments and get the
ordinances we need to and God promises us eternal life with him and Jesus
Christ in the celestial kingdom. It's as simple as that, Satan is that one that
makes it seem to hard or makes it seem so out of our reach that we could never
get there, but the point is that the only reason we can do this is because our
older brother Jesus Christ already made that sacrifice so that we could be clean
enough to enter into Gods presence. I like how he said that this gospel is so
simple and child can grasp it yet so profound that it may take eternity to know
everything, and that's the point! We need an eternity, all we have to do is
worry about the stuff we know to be true now and then build from there. So yea
I don't know everything, and I don't profess that I do, but I do know that to
be happy in this life and to be happy in the life to come we need to follow god’s
standards, leaving all other things behind and seeking first the kingdom of
God. I look forward to the day that I can say that I have done all that I can
to follow Christ, and actually look back and know that I am telling the truth.
Of course it's hard but it's also easy at the same time, if you are willing to
let go of the things in your head and start to follow the feelings that the
spirit is giving in your heart. I know this church is true, and I know that I
amount here for a reason. But just keep going don't give up on anything, I'll be
home in a year to help you guys out with money and to also try not to be too
much of a burden that I was last time.
Things are going good out here, we
have two knew people that we taught, they are for the chek republic. So that is
really good, I can't understand what they are saying as well as I can
understand Slovak. But it's pretty much the same language. Anyway have a good
week! I love and you and I miss you as well. Let me know if you need anything.
Talk to you later!
Love Jer
