Week 6

 Week 6:

Last day at the CCM! Tomorrow morning I leave for Chile!!! 

This week a gave a talk in church and our district sang nearer my god to thee in Spanish and I played the piano, so that was a special experience.
This week I've felt so strongly the importance of God's love for us. Sometimes things in the church or even in life can seem complex and complicated, but what everything really comes down to is the love God has for his children. The greatest work for God is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. That's is the mission and goal of God. He loves us so much that he sacrificed his son so we can have the opportunity to have eternal life and exaltation. So if that is God's purpose, then what is ours. We learn from the apostle John, "We love him because he first loved us." Our job now is to love God. Everything we do in our lives should come from our love of God. We follow the commandments because we love God. The first commandment is to love God and the second is to love others. 

Love God and love people. 

The rest will all fall into place. Because we love Him we want to make covenants with him and strive to keep them. Because we love Him we try to follow the example of His son, Jesus Christ. Because we love Him we study, learn, pray, go to church, pay tithing, go to the temple, serve, repent. 

Because he loves me infinitely, beyond comprehension, I am willing to go serve the people in Chile. My job for the next 17 months and for the rest of my life is to deepen my love for God and Jesus Christ and to let people know that there is a God that loves them. That he really does want what is best for them. And if we follow Him and His son, we can be blessed with peace, comfort, and strength in this life and exaltation in the next life. Everyone deserves to know and be blessed by this.

Today I'm just packing and getting ready to leave! We have to be ready to go by 3 a.m.! I'm so excited!!!
Favorites of the week:
Song: Behold the Wounds in Jesus' Hand (Oct 2021 conference)
Conference talk: The Love of God - Uchtdorf Oct 2009
Scripture: 1 Nephi 13:37Last day at the CCM! Tomorrow morning I leave for Chile!!! 

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