Christmas
is coming. Yes! Can we just take a moment and remember when I dragged Dad, Missy
and Alex to Christmas mid-night mass last year? Wow. Thanks so much for
entertaining my crazy ideas. It doesn't even feel like Christmas here, but then
sometimes it hits me that, oh in a few days it's coming. I love it.
So
this week was great. Janet got baptized. She scared me before because she said
she wasn't sure if this was God's one true church. Yikes! I never wanted to
help someone get baptized if they weren't quite ready and so that worried me
but I asked her why she wanted to be baptized and she told us to obey and worship
God. And that she hopes this is his only true church. After talking with her it
felt a lot better and I realized you know getting baptized is an act of faith
for her right now and it really was. After she was baptized I asked her how she
thought she felt compared to before and she said her faith felt stronger. So
awesome it really is through our actions that we build faith.
We
did caroling yesterday with the ward! It was so fun! We drove in cars and just
stopped at three different houses. Last Thursday we had our mission Christmas party
and went to Sun Moon Lake. It was so foggy we couldn't see the lake but it was
so nice to see missionaries I hadn't seen in 7 months! It was crazy to see how
the time just went.
Can't
wait to Skype you all. It still feels like I was just Skyping you all for
Mother's day. Hey, so how are you celebrating CHRISTmas? Huh? In personal study
I was doing the Christ-like attribute activity with faith. I was planning on going
through all nice questions but just got stuck pondering on the first one. It
asks you to assess if you believe in Christ and ACCEPT him as our Savior. I
really thought about that and what it meant to really accept the Savior. Accept
(according to the sweet-old-smelling-smell-that-i-love Webster's dictionary
that I have) means to receive with consent or agreement; to make a favorable
response to; to recognize as true. Wow just grab one of those definitions and
stick it to where accept is and its good stuff to ponder. Do we really accept
Christ as he is? He accepts us as we are. I think of Mosiah 14 and how the Jews
and everyone rejected him because he was just a humbly born. I just makes me
wonder, well what were they looking for in a Savior. What are we personally
looking for in a Savior? What are we thinking will bring us happiness? Money,
fame, accomplishments all that jazz or peace of mind, family, fulfillment. It said that he wasn't desirable which is so
ironic because a good relationship with him and god is ALL I desire for my
sweet investigators and personally. He is so kind. So loving and so WILLING to
help us and constantly in the scriptures invites us to "come unto
him" but it's just so easy. It's too good to be true! But it is true. The
way is simple. It's to come unto Christ and give him our all. Our everything.
The way is simple and clear, but it's not easy. I've seen my investigators the
way they had to sacrifice so much especially pertaining to family, but in the end
it's a blessing. I really want to accept Christ in his all and I feel like the
best way is to accept his help. Accept his atonement, his gospel, and his love
to help us. I know so much and so deeply that he is our Savior and without his
sacrifice, help, and love we can do life but we are living below what it could
really be. Sweet beloveds, I can't wait to talk to you in what 3 days?
Love
you so much
Sister
Burr
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Janet got baptized this week! Yes! And then that tall girl is
another investigator.
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