Hello Mother! So I am in Arizona, and it is quite nice I am enjoying it quite thoroughly. It is a nice 75 degrees outside, Cool breeze, and some beautiful pine trees! Can you guess where I am? Dad has probably been here one thousand times! It is cute little Eager Arizona! Up in the Mountains. There isn't a whole lot of Spanish speakers here, but my companion speaks it so we get plenty of practice! My mission President and wife are wonderful people... I LOVE THEM. They are so good! And so kind! And so wise! Phoenix for a day and a half was EXTREMELY HOT. I didn't realize how foreign this place really was. It is hot. Tuns of palm trees. These crazy massive cacti EVERYWHERE! An endless amount of homeless people. A lot of soccer. And nobody really speaks English. Just about as foreign as I could get! Not really....but I am happy! I enjoyed the call VERY MUCH on Monday, and I hope you are all having a just as AMAZING time as I am! Out here... At least in the mountains... Member missionary work is EXTREMELY important! So, please. OH PLEASE, be missionaries... Call the missionaries up and give them referrals to your friends that aren't members.... Invite people to come to church... Anything! My companion is awesome... We are going to bring so many people to Christ! I am so excited!!! Life is difficult, my friends, it is meant to be. Because we taste the bad things in life we find that we can distinguish and realize and define the good. It is a rough road for every individual person, and it is even more difficult and takes even more work, to follow Christ. But we MUST FOLLOW CHRIST. I mentioned that it is the hardest road to travel on, but it is also the happiest road to travel... There is no other peace and joy that comes from walking as Jesus the Christ walked. Salvation was not meant to be easy, and if we don't have the guts or the love to face hard things like my Savior Jesus Christ did then we do not deserve to be saved. EVEN WITH following Christ with all our soul, we do not DESERVE Him to help us. But He does and He did. He died. He was left alone. He was murdered in the worst ways possible. He suffered pains that we would not even be able to suffer in mortality. He is good. Be willing to stand with Him and suffer your own trials and the smallest sliver of what He went through. It is hard. It is meant to be. Oh, but mom, it is worth it. It is so worth it! Just for a time! Wait it out! Endure it well! And Never, NEVER stop fighting! This world is a WAR ZONE. Never get complacent or comfortable, I learned that the best way to do that is from missionary work. Do mission work, and you will have a Spiritual experience. Then, your faith will be strengthened and you will become more converted to God! But you also must realize that the first convert is yourself! And so EVERYONE needs to be a missionary to themselves first, and then to the rest of the world! Strengthen yourself! Make yourself keep commitments, and be accountable to God! I love you all with my whole soul! Be good! I want everyone to be ridiculously, annoyingly nice to everyone. Be a missionary! Love, Elder Flake
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