Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
It's been a good week! We got to go on a split with the Assistants this week and it was inspiring. It was cool because we didn't listen to any music or any general conference talks on the long drive back to the assistants area. Both of us just talked about the gospel and how we can help our investigators overcome their road blocks the entire time. We literally talked about the gospel all day and it was so enlightening. So Elder Peterson and I have been applying that and there has been no contention ever since. The gospel changes things! Also this scripture has meant a lot to me these past couple days.
D&C 58 27 Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; 28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward. I think that is so cool! We are created by God. He has given us the ability and power to choose right from wrong. The power is in us! As you rely on Jesus Christ it becomes much easier to choose the right. You begin to understand your real purpose and identity. You understand that you are a child of God and have divine potential to one day live with and become like God! It is so sweet. This week Taryn has been progressing towards baptism so well! We taught her about tithing and how sacred it truly is. She committed to pay tithing after she was baptized! She also is making it so she doesn't have to work on Sundays! We talked about how blessings truly do come from giving back to the Lord. I love how simple it is to teach this principle. God has given us everything we have. All he asks in return is 10%! And he blesses you without measure when you do pay tithing. God is good! Hebrews 10 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. I have sent this to you before but I felt to send it again. Something I learned this week about leadership was having confidence in the Lord and his promises. I invite you all to study the promises that God has made to those who keep his commandments. It truly is incredible! God keeps his promises! D&C 82 8 And again, I say unto you, I give unto you a new commandment, that you may understand my will concerning you; 9 Or, in other words, I give unto you directions how you may act before me, that it may turn to you for your salvation. 10 I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise. As we keep the commandments everything will work out! I know that God loves us and he has a plan for each and every one of us! Sometimes we need to step back and look at the bigger picture and ask ourselves "what can I learn from my current circumstances that will help me later in my life?" So yeah! This week has been good! I love you all! And I AM SO STOKED FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE! Make sure to prepare questions to take to Conference. They will get answered! God does speak to his children ☺ Elder Murray
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