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Doctrine and Covenants 4: 1-7

1 Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men.

2 Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.

3 Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work;

4 For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;

5 And faith, hope, charity and love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work.

6 Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence.

7 Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Amen.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Be Our Guest!

Dearest family,

How the heck are you? I am fine. Matoury is a pretty challenging area, but I feel that I am growing more and more each day, and because of the trials, I am getting stronger and stronger. This week we finally got to work with President Baksh, and even though he is no longer the branch president, I think we are going to be able to work better with him and his family. The biggest problem remains Church. The people that are humble and ready to recieve the message don't have any transportation. We are going to try our best this week to figure out a way that our members with cars can come and pick up those without. Unfortunatley this week the few members we have were working, but we talked to them yesterday, and they said that they could work with us this week. That is my new goal. Do everything possible to light the fire in the Members. Elder Taerea is doing good. He was made branch president this week. I am excited for that, and we are going to try our best to support the branch here. The Church is true. I am continually amazed at the faith of our active members because Even though the church here is tiny, they remain faithful. Every sunday they bear their testimonies to me by coming and partaking of the sacrament, even though there are only very few people there. I love that the truthfulness of this church is not dependant on its popularity, but the testimony of the Spirit. The coolest thing that happened this week was, we went to a lesson with a lady named Gertude, and there was a guy there we had never met before. He had a lot of questions, and was very eager to show us his knowlege of the Bible. He said that he only trusted the Bible because it was impossible to know which church was true. We tried to explain about the Restoration, but he was firmly set in his opinion. Finally we told him he could know which Church was true, and he challenged us "How?" Then Gertude butted in before we could say anything and said "Do like Joseph Smith did, Ask God!" It was cool. I gotta get going but I love you!

Love,
Elder Ison
at 10:36 PM
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