Here is a quote from Howard
W. Hunter that I heard yesterday in Relief Society:
`¿Que
debemos hacer si nuestros seres queridos nos hieren, o si en el empleo dan a
otro ascenso que nos habian prometido, si nos acusan falsamente o atacan
arbitrariamente nuestras buenas intenciones?
¿Ejercemos
represalias? ¿Reunimos fuerzas para enviar un batallón aun mas numeroso? ¿
Volvemos a la ley del `ojo por ojo` y diente por diente?...O llegamos a la
conclusion de que esto en definitiva nos deja ciegos y sin dientes.`
Translation: “What should
we do if our loved ones hurt us, or if they go back on their promises, or
falsely accuse us or arbitrarily attack our good intentions? Do we retaliate? Do we gather forces and launch an even larger
assault? Do we return to the old law of ‘an
eye for an eye’ and ‘a tooth for a tooth’?
Or do we arrive at the conclusion that this only leaves us blind and
toothless?”
This
made me laugh so hard in Relief Society. I was literally laughing out loud....
whoops. Haha. But I love this quote because
It makes so much sense to me. When people cause bad things to happen in our
life we can choose between two options.... go back to the eye for and eye and
tooth for a tooth way of thinking .... or we can choose the way of the Savior
and forgive and love those that caused wrong against us. It’s obvious the road
I want to choose, I like my sight and my teeth thank you very much. Hahaha. I learned a lot in this class, about
following the Savoir and knowing how to follow his example.
We
have seen miracles this week!!!! a TON!!! 7 investigators came to church
yesterday!! The whole entire family of Elvin and Heidy came to church
yesterday! Like I said before their dad is an inactive member for about 15
years and their mom isn’t a member and their mom came to church for the first
time ever!!! It was awesome. I was so grateful that the Lord helped us and put
the desire in their hearts to come to church. The mom (Lilian) told us that she
hasn’t been drinking coffee for a couple days and normally when she tries to
stop drinking coffee she has a bad reaction. These past couple of days she hasn’t
had any bad reaction at all!!! Another blessing as well!!!
Elvin
and Heidy are going to get baptized this Saturday and Hermana Nicolas had the
great idea to take them to the temple the morning before so that they could see
the outside and the gardens and feel the strong Spirit that is there. After the
baptism we are planning to work really hard with Lilian so that she can awaken more
of that desire to get baptized. Her two kids are wonderful examples not only
for her, but for their dad (Carlos) as well.
Fun
Fact: we are going to have multi-zone conferences in the next couple of
weeks... but part of these conferences is that our zone has to make a video
about putting a baptismal date with a real life investigator.... all of the
elders in our zone voted for our investigator Monica so my comp and I are going
to be in the video. My comp is dying she does not want to be in the video AT
ALL. hahaha. Its going to be fun!!! hahaha
anyways
I love you all!!! Jeff be careful of those bolos... son papos
Hermana
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