Well, these past few weeks President has been rearranging the meetings we had planned and as the result of one of them we didn´t get mail last week :/ No packages/letters :/ Hopefully tomorrow I get everything! If not...well I may just have to figure out how to break into the office and gather them myself haha (joke! I already know how to get in...hahahaha kidding!!!)
So, this week I was reading in Alma 17, specifically verses 14-15. With all the troubles I´ve been having lately I found great consolance (is that even a word??) (aack, his English! The word is consolation, Elder Crider!) in the last few lines of v15. I´d encourage you to take 2 seconds to read it real quick before continuing to read (or pull it up from scriptures.lds.org in another tab). Anyway, it talks about all the sins they were committing and all the vain traditions they were following, but "the promeses of the Lord were extended unto them on the conditions of repentance." If the Lord is willing to forgive them still after all they had done as explained in the verses, how much more willing would He be to forgive us? How much easier is it for us to reach out and take His arm of mercy that is extended to us? I like those verses.
A. (the one who is going to be baptized March 1st) has been running all over Santiago doing paperwork to sell her house, so we haven´t been able to visit her. HOWEVER, Juan Carlos and Govanna V. are going to be baptized THIS SATURDAY!!!!! PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM!!!!
About Priesthood Blessings - I´ve participated in the dedication of a grave and have personally performed blessings of health and "consejo" as well as blessing a house. I remember one story from the life of Joseph Smith while he and some other Apostles were performing Temple ordinances in a Temple. He fell down completely exhausted and later explained that it was because, as Jesus felt when the woman with the blood problem touched the hem of his robes, that virtue does literally flow from the Priesthood bearer to the recipient of the blessing thus leaving one without energy if performed consistantly for a prolonged period of time. I testify that it is true. When one is worthy to invoke the powers of Heaven, that transfer of virtue can leave one sweating and exhausted.
- Elder Daylon Crider
p.s. My shoes are actually holding in really well! Tell Bro. Thompson thanks!
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