Monday, November 5, 2012

In my personal email from Anthony he told me he had his first baptism!  It was Kage, and he said it was awesome and the ward was very supportive.  Pictures will come later.

Here is his email to everyone:

So as you know or may not know, at the beginning of this transfer we got a new mission president.  President Harding.  He hasn't made any dramatic changes, but of course has things for us missionaries to do. A few of them are reading the Book of Mormon in 2 transfers, only study the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel, working on Christlike attributes, and the one that I want to talk about today is each night reflecting on the Lords' hand in our work and writing it in our journal.  I thought this might be good with Thanksgiving coming up.
I'll start with realizing that the Lord is there and he extends his hand to us daily.  I guess you could think about this as counting your many blessings, like the song, but I want to address it a little different this time.  A great example in the Book of Mormon is Nephi.  Nephi 7:11-12.  He is telling his brothers and realizes all the Lord has done for him.  Then in verse 12 he says, "the Lord is able to do all things according to his will." Now this morning when I studied this it absolutely changed my thoughts about the Lord's will.  As I read Mosiah 15:7 at the end it says, "the will of his son being swallowed up by the will of his father."  Now that is important.  I never thought about that, and where I was in that process.  Is my will being swallowed up?  Also, how much of a need do I have for my will to be swallowed up?  What if my will is good already?  Well, then I had to catch myself.  I remembered a scripture I read not to long ago concerning the difference between the Father's will and mine.  This is in Isaiah 55:8-9 .... Now this told me what I need to do.  I need to fully submit myself to the Lord.  We all do.  It goes back to conference and Mosiah 3:19.  Being like a child.  The first thing to do is be submissive.  I don't know if I can help anyone, but I hope we will be able to study these scriptures and help ourselves.  Have confidence in the Lord and his will.  Act on promptings from the spirit and submit ourselves unto our Father.  I know that as we do we can experience joy and true happiness.  Through this we can be saved.  I know he is a part of everyones every day life.

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