Hey Family!
So before I forget, mormon.org is doing this awesome thing for easter called because of him! you need to check it out, like it, and share it on facebook:) there is an awesome video that you can share, and in the comment thing you write "Because of him..." and fill in the blank! Lets help everyone remember christ this week and everything that he has done for us:) lets flood the internet with testimonies of christ this week in honor of the sacred easter season!
I'll start... Because of Him, I can change. I can improve and become better each day! That is such a blessing, and its something that we so often take for granted. There was a talk in the priesthood session that talks about how the moment we say, "Thats just the way i am.." we give up our ability to change. Thats scary! I never want to give up my ability to change, because I have so many weaknesses! It is through the enabling power of the atonment that we can change, and we can become the best we can be!
Anyway, things here are going awesome! WE HAVE A BAPTISM ON SUNDAY!! and he is doing awesome!! He is so excited, and so prepared. I've never met anyone so christlike and anyone who so badly desires to do good. Please pray pray pray that everything goes well this week:) We are also going to sing in sacrament meeting on sunday with one of the members and i am so excited. we are singing a really cool version of i know that my redeemer lives, and it has a pretty descant and everything. On saturday this week we are going to run another 5K! This time we are running it with the zone leaders though, so we cant slack on the card passing out :p I am way excited! so not in shape for it... but excited:) This past week we had a chance to do some fun activities with the ward members and meet a lot of their friends! the ward is starting to get more excited about missionary work, slowly but surely:) good things are happening!
I survived my first transfer!! its been a whole six weeks that i have been out here... how crazy is that? I love it more and more every day! This past week we got the chance to go on exchanges with the sister training leaders and that was really fun too! they have been out for 14 months and i learned so much from them! plus they are spanish speaking so when there was someone that i couldnt talk to they could jump in and speak spanish! its funny because some people will try and pull one over on us and be like "no speak english" and then the Hermana would jump in and say "Perfecto! Yo hablo espanol!" and its funny to see peoples reaction, because they didnt get away with it:) We have been meeting some of the most awesome people!
One thing that I have learned this week that I really want to share with all of you guys comes from Matt 5:48! And this is purely doctrine according to Kait, so take it as you will :) It says "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." And in the footnotes it says perfect means complete, finished, and fully developed. And I was thinking about that and there is so much we can learn about ourselves and our divine nature from that scripture! We, all the time, tell people that this life is made for us to become like our Heavenly Father, but if you think about it... we already are like him. Thats what it means to be sons and daughters of god! Our sons and daughters arent made out of something different than us, they are like us, they just aren't fully developed. And we can conclude from that scripture that since God is complete, finished and fully developed that there was a time that he wasn't. And if you think about it, in a way the Creation isn't complete... in a way, Heavenly Father continues to "create man in His image" by the trials and blessings that come in life. He is continually creating us to be "perfect". That is what divine nature means, it means we are children of God and we are like him! we just aren't finished yet. That is why we need to be righteous, that is why we need to choose the right, because that is the natural path for our spirits to take. That is the natural process of creating man in the image of God. And anything else we do halts our development. It gives a whole new perspective on who we are, and knowing who we are motivates us to do God's will for us! thats the smart way, thats the natural way, and in the end its the easier way:) Because we are already like God, and He is completing and finishing us each and every day!
I love you guys so much! And I hope you all have a super duper fantastic week:)
Love always and forever, Sister Rowland:)
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