Hi everyone!! I hope you are all doing well and that you all
know how much I love you and am grateful for all you do, but more important, I
hope you know how much Heavenly Father loves you! He truly is working in your
lives, and he has blessed you with individual gifts and with the path ahead of
you that you need to grow and become your best self.
The title this week comes from one of the people we contacted
while walking in the street on Saturday. Generally you can tell when people are
going to try to avoid talking to you, because they will start walking quicker,
look at the ground, or try to pretend to talk on the phone, but we do our best
to talk with everyone we can. We were walking Saturday morning after
not being able to talk with the people we had made plans with. I was praying
we could talk with someone who needed our help. Not long after, coming
down the road was a lady who looked like she was going to try to avoid us. I
decided that we were going to try to talk with her no matter what. As we walked
closer to her she looked at us stopped, and said ¨I have a question for you.
What makes your church different?¨ I want to apply this question to each one of
us. What makes you different? What are you doing in your life to be able to become more like
Jesus Christ? What are you doing to show others that you are wanting to become better, that you
are working to live in a way that gives you greater happiness and peace? Each
one of us has been given unique spiritual and physical gifts and talents,
directly from God. He knows us perfectly, and has given us these things not
only to bless us, but so we can help others as well. I hope you can realize
that you are unique, individual, and special in your own way. Heavenly
Father needs YOU. He needs you to help his children, to be able to work harder
than ever before to serve, to love, and to become more like him. We each have
different strengths and weaknesses, but we all are children of God. As such, we
need to help each other feel loved and learn to come closer to our Heavenly
Father.
Testifico que Dios tiene un plan para usted. Usted tiene dones
especificos, que necesita usar para ayudar otras personas y progresar en esta
vida. Oro que puede entender su papel en el plan de Dios, y que puede saber que
usted es importante. Necesitamos Usted. Dios necesita usted. Usted puede
aprender y progresar. Busca por sus dones y va a encontrarlos.
Debemos ser obedientes y diligentes en esta obra tan
grande que tenemos por delante y solo podemos hacerla a la manera de Dios,
pero eso no significa que no habrá oposición, sin embargo
podemos seguir adelante y confiar en las promesas del Señor, tal
como Nefi;
"Por tanto, yo, Nefi, me esforcé por guardar los mandamientos del
Señor, y exhorté a mis hermanos a que fueran fieles y diligentes." (I testify that God has a plan for you. You have special gifts that need to be used for helping other people progress in this life. Pray that you can understand your role in God's plan and that you can know that you are important. We need you. God needs you. You can learn and progress. look for your gifts and go find them. We should be obedient and diligent in this great work we have before us. We can only do it according to the manor of God, but that doesn't mean there wont be opposition. We can however press forward and confide in the promises of the Lord. Like Nefi - "Therefore I Nefi, encouraged them to keep the commandments of the Lord and I extorted my brethren that they be faithful and diligent.")
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