Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The Plan of Salvation, Temples and Eternal Families

Hey guys!



This has been a pretty good week. We've been doing a lot of service lately. We've painted an entire shed this week, and that's been fun. The highlight of the week, though, we probably the lesson we had last night. We had it with an investigator named Trisha. She's super solid and the only reason why she's not on date is because she's getting surgery soon on her almost-ruptured achilles tendon and will be stuck in bed for about six-weeks. During the lesson, we were teaching the plan of salvation. As we got talking about the celestial kingdom, we were talking about the requirements to get there (which are pretty simple) and how if we've been sealed to our families and live worthy of it, we can live with them for all eternity.  During the lesson, we had been talking a lot about the incredible love that God has for us. We quickly steered the conversation back to the spirit world and reminded her about how God is a fair and loving God, and everyone will have a fair and equal chance to hear and accept the gospel, whether in this life or the next. We expalined that it wouldn't make sense unless they could be baptized as well. Then we jumped to the temple, asked her what she understood about that. The spirit was incredibly powerful, and she got very emotional, in a good way, about the principle of being her with our families for all of eternity and the plan the Lord has provided to allow this to happen. We invited her to the Ogden temple open house, which starts this week, where she'll be able to walk through the temple and learn more about what happens inside of there, and the importance of it for her and her family. We're pretty stoked for her.

So...that was my week. We've got some good things coming up this week that I'm excited for as well. 


I know that this church is true. I know that it's led by inspiration. I know for a fact that God loves us and that the Atonement is real and powerful. It's really what this work and everything else in the gospel is all about. Love all you guys.



Elder Jake Lusk



ps. there's a letter coming in the mail for you, Dara. Sorry it's late :p



 

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