One more week left in the offices, ending with General
Conference (Yeah! Projector party!), and then off to my new area...
Good week; we met a lot of interesting people, found a few
new investigators, and generally avoided the area near the ocean because it's
vacation right now for Semana Santa and it can get pretty crowded. Given that
the offices are just a few blocks away from the beach, that means right now
there's a constant undercurrent/thrum of shouts and music coming from down that
way. Along with some huge tour buses parked right in front...
As a mission we've been reading the Book of Mormon again,
doing a few exercises to emphasize the ways it teaches the doctrine of Christ
and to help us become better at teaching with the scriptures. As I do that in
my morning study, this week I also started to supplement that with studying
Lesson 3 in Preach My Gospel, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I've been paying
special attention to the Atonement, and especially the teachings of the
Atonement in the Book of Mormon. I started thinking that I would be able to do
one or two principles a day from Lesson 3, but I spent three days, I think,
just on the first principle, that "through Christ we can be cleansed from sin."
I could have gone on for years, I think, but after three days I felt like that
was what I needed, was enough, for now at least, and that I should move on. I
was reading, and pondering, and studying all the chapters I could that explain
and talk about the Atonement. Really amazing study time! I got a lot of
insights I hope will help some people we're teaching, and I feel like they'll
help me as well!
The Book of Mormon is the word of God, is holy scripture, is
an important key to many important doctrines that God needs us to know and
understand so we know exactly why we're here. And, they're
taught with such plainness and clarity that it's not hard to see why we need it
for the latter days. So, read it!
Love,
Élder Rob Weatherford
This is so cool, I love reading the experiences of other missionaries (and the fact that it's my cousin makes it even better!). I also know that The Book of Mormon is the word of God. I've felt so much peace from reading it.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool, I love reading the experiences of other missionaries (and the fact that it's my cousin makes it even better!). I also know that The Book of Mormon is the word of God. I've felt so much peace from reading it.
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