Letter #50

 Merry Christmas everybody! I hope that you all are having a wonderful holiday season! This past transfer has been a blast so far, from getting brand new bikes, finding new friends, talking to literally everyone we see, and sharing the joy or our Redeemers birth, there's just been so much going on! (Common theme for mission I've been finding, it never really slows down)


I don't have too long but I wanted to share something I got from my studies recently. In 1 Nephi 11: 16 in the Book of Mormon the prophet Nephi is seeing a vision and conversing with an angel. The angel asks, "knowest though the condescension of god?" and continues on to describe the life of Christ. Christ truly condescended, leaving His throne above to live a mortal life here on earth. Isaiah 53: 2 says, "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."

Christ was born as we were, he lived as we live, and he faced mortal struggles (all of them in fact) just as we did. Christ lived the full mortal experience so He could come to know us. He in turn invites us to come to know Him and to do as He did. How are you coming to know the Savior? My testimony of Him and His eternal significance in my life has grown so much in the past year and a half. I have ready the scriptures daily, both Bible and Book of Mormon, prayed continually, partaken of the sacrament weekly, and have strived to keep ALL His commandments throughout my life so far and I am coming to know him more and more. I invite each of you to do the same! 

Ps. Sorry I haven't responded to all of your emails yet! I read them all, keep sending them! Thanks for all you have done for me!




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