Line upon line

Hey!

Nice, nice, sounds like everything is going good. That's cool about

the family reunion! How long was it? Did they have a camp out sort of

thing with it as well? Or just the get together? That's way cool about

the faith stories! Man, that's good she acted on the first prompting.

I'm sure she was glad she'd gone to look after the child when she saw

the it huddled at the bush waiting for her. That's really cool!

So about the talk... what kind of things did you have in mind? Do you

want things specific to mission life in general? Or things specific to

my mission area?

Here's a few ideas you could share (you might have to do some research

on the references and wording if that's alright):

there's a talk in this past conference that I think Elder Eyring or

maybe Elder Bednar gave. He was talking about fulfilling priesthood

duties, he said something like "if you told me that you felt you were

totally capable of accomplishing your duty, I might be concerned you

didn't fully understand it." He goes on to say though that through the

Lord's power and help we can accomplish miracles and accomplish what

He expects of us.

It's definitely the same in mission work. It's a really huge

responsibility. But if you just trying and if you seek His guidance

and help through prayer and scripture study and by being obedient,

you'll definitely see miracles and help in fulfilling your purpose.

Just like the brother of Jared, as we show and excercise our faith,

we'll be able to see the Lord's hand in our lives.

I've also learned a lot about how just by doing the small things

everyday like studying and praying we can grow little by little. Just

like the scripture "line upon line. That's definitely the same in

mission work as well. We'll see ourselves and others progress little

by little. It's important that we just continue to try hard and seek

His help and that we have faith and patience with our self and with

others, and eventually we'll look back and see how much we've grown.

I heard a quote once from some talk that said something like "He is

closer to this work than you think He is." That's definitely true. I

mean, it makes sense cause it's His work, but it's important to know

that He really is right there helping us and is ready to further help

and bless us and give us guidance as we desire it and seek it.

Any way... yeah, those are some ideas. If you have other questions

I'll totally answer them.

So, this week..... has been good. Yesterday we had a good Sabbath.

Church was awesome. We saw lots of blessings. The family I talked

about came to church again which was way cool and a huge blessing.

Their baptism date is this Saturday, which is really exciting. They've

been such a great family to teach hahaha. They live right by our house

and they were literally just waiting to be baptized it seems! Haha, I

have definitely seen His help and miracles as we've taught them and

worked with them.

We rode to Kuma on our bicycles again. There's a really strong member

down there who shared with us his "kateniuan koaua" (third

witness/third personal testimony building experience basically) on the

Book of Mormon. It's so awesome to hear members' testimonies here.

Some people here have got some really strong testimonies, it's way

awesome.

Hmmmm, I've been doing some Book of Mormon studies this week on the

overall organization of the book. Basically something like this:

...Alma 1-4

5 Alma to people

6

7 Alma to people in Gideon

8

9-14 Alma and Amuleck to people in Ammonihah, Zeezrom

15-16

17-26 Sons of Mosiah

27-35 (30 Korihor the Anti-Christ)

36-42 Alma to sons (36-37 Helaman, 38 Shiblon, 39-42 Corianton)

...

Anyway, I would recommend it. For me it helps references stick better.

It also helps you to guess and find verses.

Well, have a good week!! Love ya!!! - Elder SEffker