February 23, 2015

The lord will always provide a way for us! In Mosiah Alma told his people have faith and the Lord will deliver us. When we put our faith in Christ he will always provide a way. When Christ's apostles found out that Christ would no longer be guiding them the were concerned and felt inadequate to lead his church, but he provided them the way, the spirit. " Ask in my name having faith and ye shall receive" but because he gave them this gift they had to do their part. "Ask and ye receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you".

 

They had to ask for the spirit first, secondly they had to COME TO KNOW CHRIST (or act )  through the spirit in order to receive the spirit, then they were told to do two things first, love one another as I have loved you. Christ showed his apostles his love by washing their feet.  In their culture the washing of the feet was the highest sign of respect and love for one anther, Christ the master washing their feet was a witness of his love and friendship towards them. (Now the fun part ) they had to ACT and share that same amount of love with everyone around them "love thy neighbor as thyself."  Secondly they were asked to keep the commandments. They were then given the promise that as they did these things the Lord would be with them. "For I the Lord am bound when ye do what I say but when ye do not what I say ye have no promise! I know that as we come to know Christ he will always provide us the way, I know that as we do these things we will be blessed with 1. the spirit to always lead and guide us 2. Christlike love and 3. a greater relationship with the son Jesus Christ and as you develop a relationship through Christ you gain a relationship with our Heavenly Father!  I testify that as we follow these steps and ask act and obey we will begin to truly understand God's love and plan for us in our own lives as well as his love for all those around us.

Hey president,

 Tthis week has been very unique. I have really been pondering on what I can do to become a consecrated missionary and eventually become the man that God wants me to be.  I found that the main thing I can do is work, work on every aspect of becoming Christ like and just flat out work, my family's saying has always been "there's nothing without work" and Ive really been considering this in my life and how it applies, I'm so grateful for my trainer and his love for work and the people we work with.  He  has been an amazing example to me of what the word dedicated means, he truly puts all his heart into everything he does.

Thanks for everything you do and your amazing example to me and all your wisdom I will truly work on becoming wise
Love,
Elder Henrie