We shared a scripture about charity. It's something that I've been studying a lot about recently. In Moroni 7:47-48, it explains charity as the pure love of Christ. I took that before to mean that Charity is the definition of Christ's love, which is true. But I learned something more. I always thought we had to gain this love, somehow have that love, and it's all our own. It says, though, that charity is Christ's pure love, not mine. Sometimes it can be hard to love some others, but as verse 48 says, we have to ask our Father that He fill us with Christ's love with all the energy of our heart.
We taught one of our investigators the word of wisdom last week, and at first, she said she would be unable to go cold turkey. She said just one drink every once in a while wouldn't hurt. But we read Alma 47:11-18 and talked about how even lowering just a little bit can have bad consequences. She then fully committed to live it. She was really grateful! However this week, we came by and she explained her whole personal dilemma, of how her husband doesn't want her to go to church and literally beats her when she does. She said she couldn't keep going, progressing because she was done. She had been beaten and abused most of her life, and she's just so close. If she just makes the Covenants with God, all will be well.
We explained about the Atonement. I realize that often we go into 2 Nephi 2 whenever people have questions about why we have opposition, but I have seen that that chapter is for the ones who know about the blessings of life and struggles. There are those who just want to know if it's all worth it, or what God does during their struggles and oppositions. For me, Mosiah 24 explains it best.
Anyway, we were going tracting, and there was a door we saw a car trunk open, so we knocked the door. A black woman answered and we said "HI. We're missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ. She answered," oh, ok. Come on in!" We came in, shared a message, and she said, "My name is Chok-o-lat-ay, but you can call me chocolate". She was a really cool referral for English elders, but it turns out that her son had been invited a few weeks earlier to go to church by a member, and went. Great miracles happen.
On Thursday we gave a blessing to a member, and also had Zone Conference. It was a good conference. Since I'm extending, all the missionaries I would have gone home with bore their testimonies. It was weird and sad to see. But I am glad to have a little extra time here. I also finished the Book of Mormón in Spanish! It was an eye opener. We decided that we would have a meeting with bishop to discuss some plans, so we put our presentation together Friday, and then on Saturday we presented it to bishop, and then after Stake conference we all got blessings from him and the Elder's Quorum President. Hno Aguirre, the EQP, is amazing. A great man.
The notes I received from Stake conference are these:
Jesus ministered by letting them know the Atonement is real. Feel and see and know.
Tithing is in place of consecration today. Concecration is the higher law.
Now we're at the higher law of ministering. We are being asked to live a higher law.
Ministering is an attribute of Christ.
As he focused on helping those around him on the hill, his own hill disappeared*
**Higher laws allow more agency, and more direction from and freedom to follow the Spirit. It only works by turning outward. **
It shouldn't be a commandment, but just nature.
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