Purification Edification Perfection Exaltation
Make clean- improvement - free from flaws - highest praise
This past week president Mecham has asked that we purify ourselves, (as you already know you got a letter from them) in his weekly letter last week he wrote:
"A covenant is a sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people (missions). God sets specific conditions, and He promises to bless us as we obey those conditions. In these divine agreements, God binds Himself to sustain, sanctify and exalt us in return for our commitment to serve Him and keep His commandments.
A sample of the blessings God desires for us to receive are found in the Doctrine and Covenants section 82:19-20. We are promised that our talents can be improved upon. Further, we are encouraged to seek other talents, even an hundredfold. In section 88:78 -79 we are blessed with His grace to attend us as we instruct more perfectly in theory, in principle, and doctrine and in the law of the gospel. We are further blessed with understanding concerning things in heaven and in earth, things which are at home and which are abroad, the complexities of the nations and the judgments of the land.
The above-mentioned blessings of covenant keeping will ensure that your mission is satisfying and rewarding to you personally and more especially to the Savior. As you maintain and magnify the talents that you have received or will receive, you will experience rich blessings as a builder of the kingdom, a contributor to your family, to your career and to your community. You will truly be recognized and valued for your good works."
Make clean- improvement - free from flaws - highest praise
This past week president Mecham has asked that we purify ourselves, (as you already know you got a letter from them) in his weekly letter last week he wrote:
"A covenant is a sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people (missions). God sets specific conditions, and He promises to bless us as we obey those conditions. In these divine agreements, God binds Himself to sustain, sanctify and exalt us in return for our commitment to serve Him and keep His commandments.
A sample of the blessings God desires for us to receive are found in the Doctrine and Covenants section 82:19-20. We are promised that our talents can be improved upon. Further, we are encouraged to seek other talents, even an hundredfold. In section 88:78 -79 we are blessed with His grace to attend us as we instruct more perfectly in theory, in principle, and doctrine and in the law of the gospel. We are further blessed with understanding concerning things in heaven and in earth, things which are at home and which are abroad, the complexities of the nations and the judgments of the land.
The above-mentioned blessings of covenant keeping will ensure that your mission is satisfying and rewarding to you personally and more especially to the Savior. As you maintain and magnify the talents that you have received or will receive, you will experience rich blessings as a builder of the kingdom, a contributor to your family, to your career and to your community. You will truly be recognized and valued for your good works."
I love that so much and it can apply to us all.
This is Stephan from Missoula
Eric from Missoula- he is awesome
good old Townsend
I love serving with Elder Egan. We have both been out for about the same amount of time and we have similar goals and desires regarding missionary work so we work so well together, its awesome. We have been improving our language, trying not to use euphanisms or slag. I read a scripture this morning that talked about language so it was really cool. Zephaniah 3:9 look it up it's great. We also both read the 4th missionary and that is a super good talk, I recommend that to everyone who wants to serve missions, and I wish I would have read it sooner cause I dont want to have a 12 month successful mission, but it can all go up from here. We have been running in the mornings, not the funnest haha, but once we get going it feels good and we tend to have more energy throughout the day.
We went tracting last night and there were many nice people that we met, we met one guy who said we didn't believe in Jesus Christ and that the Book of Mormon should be burned so that hurt, but we read 2 Nephi 25:26 "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins" and he didn't have much to say after that and our testimonies that we shared, it got kinda fiery so I feel bad on that aspect but I wish people wouldn't assume and make judgements on stuff they don't know what they are talking about. We did service and loaded about 12 trucks full of wood for widows and if needed, people in the community, to use for firewood. The Colangelos still have a ways to go but we are fasting and praying for them and trying to help them make and keep commitments, we will be more bold with them this week so hopefully they are ready for it. We also put another lady on date for the 20th of this month, she is an older lady super nice, Audrey, so hopefully she will also keep her commitments as well. basically we are going to be bold and go crazy this week with our work and find new people and bring fallen away people back to Christ. It will be a good week.
I am grateful for the temple and super excited to go this week, we as missionaries and even as members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and even as Christians or even human beings,need to always be purifying and perfecting ourselves, becoming better people, loving, helping, serving one another. We won't be perfect in this life but we are commanded to be perfect, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." We can't be perfect all at once but line upon line precept upon precept we can be. We can be perfect in our daily prayer, daily scripture reading, perfect in our home and visiting teaching, so there are some things we can be perfect in.
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