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Elder Pearson and Elder Miller day 1 - at the mission home.

 Not too much to report this week. It's getting cold, and snow is everywhere.... yippee? But luckily I have a very warm hat I got from home that is helping me out.

Elder Miller and I are continuing to find, teach, and baptize. So all is well.




William's Baptism - November 2010

Faith's baptism - with her family.  November 2010.

 The Book of Mormon is continuing to teach me new things. I've started it for the 4th or 5th time, and no matter how many times I've read it, I keep getting more out of it. Right now, I'm in Nephi. He was asked to do many difficult, time consuming, and challenging things in the first few chapters of 1st Nephi. Most of the time, as he started the task, he didn't fully understand why he was doing these things, or why they needed to be done.  Yet he had complete faith in the Lord that not only were these things he didn't understand important, but the way was going to be prepared for him and the task was always possible.

A verse that sticks out is Chapter 9: verses 5 and 6. Nephi was commanded to make 2 separate accounts of the same history of his people. Which is hard by itself, but he had to do that by engraving gold plates, which probably took some time.  He said: "Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me to make these plates for a wise purpose in him, which purpose I know not. But the Lord knoweth all things from the beginning."

There's a lot of times I don't understand why there is a certain commandment or rule. And I follow it only half heartedly. This is something I'm gonna work on. The scriptures are a great example for me to continue to do what I know is right and important.