Letter #70 - Week 73: Preach My Gospel Ch. 10 and Area Book 4.5

February 12, 2020

Hola Everyone!

Hermana Haws and I were able to make a seamless transition to the new transfer and jump right into the work that needed to be done. Heavenly Father had a storehouse of miracles waiting for us on the way as well!

We did some digging on some marriage and divorce laws, and it meant good news for some of the people we're teaching! It was really good to let them know and we're going to be working hard on that in the next couple of weeks.

There was an update on area book a while back where records of people are deleted after two years if the person in question hasn't shown interest in the being taught by the missionaries. One thing we like to do is to send people whose records are about to be deleted a call or a text to give them one last chance before they're released into the wild. We texted a lady named Michelle, and she said that she would be coming to church, and then she did! That was amazing and we were able to get an appointment with her for today.

President Teuscher announced that we could do prime time 5-8 on preperation day, and then take the 8-9 hour to finish preperation day activities, so Hermana Haws and I are trying it out.

I wrote the first part of the email before we went out for the night, and went to our lesson with Michelle. We figured out why she's so amazing, it's because she's been a member all her life! Haha, she less active, but not all is lost. Her husband isn't a member, so we'll probably be teaching him soon. So, a miracle in disguise, haha.

Area Book 4.5 is coming out tomorrow, and I'm really excited about the update. We're going to get line graphs and new options to sort the people we teach and have callings for the members and a whole bunch of other goodness.

I got the chance to do some service and tutor a joven in math, and it was so much fun! It was like teaching the gospel except with numbers.

South Brooklyn District is going to be giving a musical number at zone conference this week, so pray for us.

Life is good and brightly beams our Father's mercy.

Alma 24:12-19

12 Now, my best beloved brethren, since God hath taken away our stains, and our swords have become bright, then let us stain our swords no more with the blood of our brethren.

13 Behold, I say unto you, Nay, let us retain our swords that they be not stained with the blood of our brethren; for perhaps, if we should stain our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God, which shall be shed for the atonement of our sins.

14 And the great God has had mercy on us, and made these things known unto us that we might not perish; yea, and he has made these things known unto us beforehand, because he loveth our souls as well as he loveth our children; therefore, in his mercy he doth visit us by his angels, that the plan of salvation might be made known unto us as well as unto future generations.

15 Oh, how merciful is our God! And now behold, since it has been as much as we could do to get our stains taken away from us, and our swords are made bright, let us hide them away that they may be kept bright, as a testimony to our God at the last day, or at the day that we shall be brought to stand before him to be judged, that we have not stained our swords in the blood of our brethren since he imparted his word unto us and has made us clean thereby.

16 And now, my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury them deep in the earth, that they may be kept bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at the last day; and if our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and shall be saved.

17 And now it came to pass that when the king had made an end of these sayings, and all the people were assembled together, they took their swords, and all the weapons which were used for the shedding of man’s blood, and they did bury them up deep in the earth.

18 And this they did, it being in their view a testimony to God, and also to men, that they never would use weapons again for the shedding of man’s blood; and this they did, vouching and covenanting with God, that rather than shed the blood of their brethren they would give up their own lives; and rather than take away from a brother they would give unto him; and rather than spend their days in idleness they would labor abundantly with their hands.

19 And thus we see that, when these Lamanites were brought to believe and to know the truth, they were firm, and would suffer even unto death rather than commit sin; and thus we see that they buried their weapons of peace, or they buried the weapons of war, for peace.

¡Os Amo!

-Hermana Prue