June 11, 2012

My Dear Family!

 

Another week gone! Time sure keeps flying by. I sure do love getting pictures of everyone. I cannot get over how much everyone has changed. I love getting letters from all of you too about what is all going on with everyone. I sure do love you all and I am so glad everything is going good at home.

 

This past week was a crazy one, but really good at the same time. A lot of our appointments fell through, people were not at home for one reason or another, but we do not let that get us discouraged. I have found that Heavenly Father never gives us things that we cannot handle. He gives us trials or hard times to test our faith in Him so that we can rely more on Him. There was a few times this week that I thought about the Sons of Mosiah and when "their hearts were depressed, and they were about to turn back, the Lord comforted [them]". It seems to always be when we think that we cannot go on anymore and we are just  feeling so discouraged for one reason or another that the Lord will comfort us. Sometimes, it is not in the way we expect and when we don't have our eyes open we might miss it. But the Lord keeps His promises! Keep walking, keep trying, don't you quit! This life is hard and we need our Savior to be able to get through those hard times, that is what the Atonement is for. Today I studied about Charity. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, has that pure love and He showed it by the Atonement. In Alma 7:11-13 we read about the Atonement and the Saviors purpose of doing it, I do not have it memorized so to sum it up, He performed the Atonement so that He would know, according to the flesh, how to help us. He put Himself in our place so that He would know how to help us. That is true love! That is Charity! Thinking of others, putting others before ourselves. I love the quote that President Monson says, "Never let a problem to be solved become more important then a person to be loved" and to kind of go with that, the second commandment is to "love thy neighbor as thyself". I can witness that when we put others first before all of our wants and desires, that we will be filled with that love of Christ. We will be a better disciple of Him by doing so.

 

I know that this Church is true! I know that the Book of Mormon is another testament of JesusChrist. I love you all so much! I know that Families are Eternal!

 

Love you all!!!

 

XOXOXOXOXOXO

 

-Hermana Wadsworth