Hey Familia,
So this week was really interesting and awesome. YEAH GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! I have never before felt so many of the messages apply to me and Dad! it was basically a new PMG it was pretty much all about missionary work except for that one about how to raise virtuous girls in the crappy world. I am so studying that one to pieces when I get a daughter.
So I learned about a million lessons this last week but I will try to keep the really neat ones on the top of the list. Saturday morning before Conference I was thinking about Vosotros, Mom and Dad, and how grateful I am to have had you for parents. One of the most evident things that can be seen out here is the contrast of the gospel teachings and everything. The start of my mission I was continually trying to make the best way to be a missionary only to find out that it was already made. I just had one of the frustrating and enlightining experiences this morning. But back to the subject...so I was thinking about my life and how I have had so many good things and some bad things. It became very apparent that the Gospel, or the plan that God has for us, was the source of every piece of happiness that I could remember either from living the Gospel myself or the positive side effects from others living it. I realized that it is the way to perfection. To really become like God and the only things that can stop us from suceeding is ourselves such as not learning what exactly the gospel is, how to live it, or just being to scared to try. We have the perfect plan for happiness. Even if we dont completely understand all the inner workings of it we know it's better than anything that we could come up with and we know at least in part what we need to do to live it. I challenge anyone reading this to put aside their fears, exercise a little faith, and living those principles of the Gospel no matter how small they may seem. I would probably not have been able to see this pattern in my own life if it wasn't for the faithful living of my own parents. Thanks MOM AND DAD!!! One of the most amazing thing is that the Gospel never wears out no matter how many people have used it. It continues to bring happiness and it has from the foundation of the world. We have hundreds of years of scriptural evidence and the continual words of the modern apostles and prophets that testify to the never ceasing functionings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I would also invite anyone reading this to learn more about the Christ, Jesus. We, as saints, sometimes go through life reaping the benefits and lack to see the source. How great our joy and appreciation might be if we only tried to recognize the source of our salvation. READ JESUS THE CHRIST!!! It is perfect to try to comprehend everything the Saviour did for us. It is the inspired compilition of everything the savior is from the Pre-mortal realm until far into the future as compiled in the Salt Lake Temple by James E. Talmage using both ancient and modern scripture.
Being at the battlefront of this war against Satan we as missionaries could see almost every idea that was spoken at Conference and the truthfulness of the message. As a representative of this Church and a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ I invite all of you to live the principles that the Prophets and Apostles have taught in this last conference. I feel that the rift is getting wider and wider. It is becoming harder and harder to be in the middle ground. Please, let's all choose to push aside those things that are stretching and tearing us apart. Let us side more valiantly with the Lord and we might just find an abundance of peace and security in an unstable world.
I Love you a lot, thanks for everything,
Elder Hanson
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