soooo! This week has been great! Some as i read things
(scriptures and talks) now, that i read
before my mission, i hardly recognize it because they just seem so different! I
feel so much closer to my Heavenly father and to my Savior so a talk i would have read in 10 minutes now
took me 1 hr to get through 1/5th of it...because so many other things
pertaining to it come to mind. The specific talk i'm talking about is by Elder
Bednar about grace. It's so amazing. I have never thought much about the word
grace...never the less if or how it pertained to the Atonement. I finally am
starting to get it. Grace isn't just what we give before a meal...The atonement
of Jesus Christ wasn't just for our sins to be made clean; Grace is the
Enabling Powers of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. This is the part that, after
you have used the Redeeming powers or cleansing power of the Atonement to erase
sins, you use Grace to become better, to overcome trials, to be comforted, to
be made STRONG! in 1st Nephi 7:17-18 he prayed to Heavenly Father because his
brother tied him up and sought to take away his life. In his prayer to God, he
didn't plea to the Father to smite his brothers and loosen the cords; He prayed
for strength...He didn't pray for his circumstances to change to meet his
strength but rather for his strength to meet his Circumstances and trials. And
only through grace, or the enabling power of the atonement, was he able to
overcome his trials.:
"17 But it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord,
saying: O Lord, according to my faith which is in thee, wilt thou deliver me
from the hands of my brethren; yea, even give me strength that I may burst
these bands with which I am bound.
18And it came to pass that when I had said these words,
behold, the bands were loosed from off my hands and feet, and I stood before my
brethren, and I spake unto them again."
ya...so i finally kind of get it... We can all receive
literal power through the atonement. i think that's pretty cool.
On a more casual note... -we got free bananas from the tree
outside this week....-my companion asked me, as a mother dog was feeding her puppies,
" I wonder if that's milk" as you could imagine i couldn't stop
laughing...then i had to explain that Yes...yes indeed that was milk...
anyway...that's my update
for the week! This is a picture
of my ka-bahay and companion and me:)
mahal mahal kita
-Sister Norman
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