Hello Everyone!!
Another week has come and gone. This was a great week too! The highlight of the week has to be that I got to go back to Tagbilaran for the past couple days! We had a meeting for all bohol missionaries there so we got to go spend a day down there! It was so sweet. I felt like i was back home, my mission home. I got to go with Elder Murdock too which was sweet and we had dinner with the branch missionary that always worked with us, and yeah it was so fun. I got to eat at all the good restaurants again and sleep in the tagbi house again. It was a really fun couple days. So yeah on Sunday, we traveled to calape for a choir practice for district conference. Then we stayed the night at Elder Murdock's house which was fun. Monday we went to Loon for a service project with the whole zone. We helped clear a house that was destroyed back in the earthquake. I think I might have told you about this lady but just in case i didn't i'll tell you. It was her house that went down and she is 75 and she lost her grandchild and i think maybe a daughter too in the quake. So she's left all by herself. She has also done the missionaries laundry in Loon for 19 years. She is amazing and she told someone, I can't remember who, but she said I am willing to go through anything the Lord wants me to go through in my life. How amazing is that? her faith is just amazing. And it reminds me of President Kimball. I know i've probably said this but I've heard it a lot and it never gets old for me. Just about when he missed those two conferences in a row because of how sick he was and the conference he came back he said, "give me another mountain to climb." I just get chills when I hear that story and when I think of that. Then i think of all the pioneers and how they counted it a privilege to sacrifice and suffer along the trail becasue they were able to know our Heavenly Father and help in His work. I think of Joseph Smith and all that he suffered. I love those verses in the first part of D&C 121 and the last part of 122. I love the prophet Joseph Smith and I love and am forever grateful for him and for all he sacrificed. Also of course the Savior suffered all despite being the best of us even in the beginning. He was perfectly obedient, perfectly loving, perfect in every way yet He suffered all things temporally and spiritually. And we being imperfect, constantly making mistakes, suffer so little when in comparison with the Savior. And not only do we suffer so little, the Savior has promised us help and strength to push through our trials and suffering. Life can be brutal it's true. our suffering can seem endless and torturous but the Savior suffered all things so that He could know how to succor us when we would endure our tests and trials. Oh how great the wisdom and the love of our God! I love Him and can't express my gratitude for Him. Not only for His sacrifice but His example of how to sacrifice and how to endure suffering. I am so grateful for His mercy and grace. I'm so grateful for the Atonement which allows joy and good things, all good things, possible. Which allows me to do good works and others to do good works as well. We truly can do nothing without the Atonement. I know that the powers of the Atonement are there for anyone who humble themselves and ask for them. I love our Savior Jesus Christ I know He loves me. I know He loves you. I know I've probably emailed something like this before but it's important and that's the one of the thing's I'm learning about the gospel. We can never study, hear, or learn things enough. It's by repetition that we progress and learn. I love this gospel and know it's true. I love praying and asking if it's true and each time I do pray and ask the Spirit confirms to me that it is true. I love and pray for you all! Hurrah for Israel! Hurrah for the time we live in!
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