Good morning family! I hope all is well and that you are all having a spectacular day! It's another beautiful day here in Santa Librada. We just got finished with lunch at Hermana Oda's house. Her food is delicious, and her chicha is absolutely divine. We actually have our P-Day on Wednesday this week because we're going to the temple, but President Carmack prefers that we still write on Mondays so that he doesn't get calls from concerned mamas and papas, so here I am :) It's been a good week. The Lord truly teaches me more and more every single day, I love it! :)
I want to share a scripture that I came across earlier this week--2 Nephi 25:26. It says, ''And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophecy 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.'' I absolutely love this scripture! Nephi is not talking about a passive life here. He's talking about a life that is actively and completely built around our Savior, Jesus Christ. We've been promised in Helaman 5:12 that if we establish ourselves around Christ we will have a sure foundation and we WILL NOT fall. We CANNOT fall when Christ is our foundation, in any and every circumstance.
I want everything I do to be a result of my faith in and love for Christ. I know that by following, learning, believing, and trusting in Christ, I can become like Christ. That's so incredible! And how can I represent Christ if I am not like Him? As missionaries our objective is to ''invite people to COME unto Christ . . . '' The word 'come' implies that I have to already be where Christ is. I have to be with Christ before I can invite others to come unto Him. In other words, I cannot invite people to live this gospel unless I am first living it whole-heartedly myself.
I know that Jesus Christ established the way for us to live, and I know that His way is the only way that leads us to the joy that will come from living with our Heavenbly Father and our families for eternity. We've been promised eternal happiness and we've been shown the path that we need to follow to achieve it. We simply have to do it :)
I have such a love for this gospel and there is no doubt in my mind that it is true. I KNOW that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared before Joseph Smith, and I know that through Joseph Smith the plentitud of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored. We have this gospel in our lives because God loves us and wants nothing more than for us to return to live with Him. We're so blessed to have this gospel in our lives.
I love you all SO much and hope all is well. I've learned that if all else fails, count your blessings because it's hard to not be happy when we take the time to realize how blessed we truly are. Much love to each and every one of you!
Go Forward With Faith!
Hermana Falslev :)
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