大家好！
●Highlights●
-Sister Vranes Happy Birthday!!! (We got Pokémon cards and opened them together--greatest birthday celebration ever experienced)
-Interviews!
-Got to meet Annie媽媽！She is a member from 桃園(TaoYuan) that knows my mom from when she was here! Such a treat:)
-Got gifted a figurine of a Buddhist God on the street but I didn't know what it was at the time
-Connected with a friend through our mutual love of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
-Found out me and my companion might have gone to the same elementary school?
-Made a Lantern out of an orange
-Finally tried 臭豆腐 (Stinky Tofu) (1/10)
-Bike Theft part 2 (not my bike this time, please pray for Sister Vranes) I am going to be fluent in bike-theft-police-station-
READ THIS PARTThoughts on Obedience:
I've been focusing on the connection between exact obedience and missionary work this week.
D&C 130
20 There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated— 21 And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated.
This is a concept that I have a very strong testimony of. There is no chance that I will be able to use the gift of tongues, teach with the spirit, be able to have the Lord guidance or accomplish our weekly goals without doing with God has asked us to do! Mission work will not be as successful without the spiritual confidence that comes from exact obedience.
The specific insight I gained this week is that this perfect obedience is what allows us to become sanctified, and that this sanctification is required for us to gain greater spiritual knowledge.
Ether 4
7 And in that day that they shall exercise faith in me, saith the Lord, even as the brother of Jared did, that they may become sanctified in me, then will I manifest unto them the things which the brother of Jared saw, even to the unfolding unto them all my revelations, saith Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of the heavens and of the earth, and all things that in them are.
The unfolding of all revelations! This is such an incredible promise! It's clear however that if we want to receive these revelations we have to sanctify ourselves.
So how do we become Sanctified?
Sanctification comes by the exercising of faith, as Moroni tells us in Ether 4:7. But how do we exercise faith? Obedience! Obedience to God's commandment is the method by which we exercise our faith! Therefore, as we are obedient, we become sanctified.
Faith --> obedience --> sanctification
If you are seeking guidance from the Lord at this time, I encourage you to first humbly ask what needs to be changed in your life to become more fully obedient to the commandments of God. This will allow you to have the spirit with you. This will sanctify you, and allow God to reveal to you all His revelations :)
It is promised in the Sacrament prayer for the bread (Moroni 4:3) that if we keep the commandments, we may always have the spirit to be with us. Remembering Him allows us to have the spirit (Moroni 5:2), but it is by keeping the commandments that we are promised to always have His spirit to be with us. Allow God to speak to you by living in obedience to His laws :) The Sacrament is a great time to re-dedicate ourselves!
再見! 繼續加油 (Goodbye! Keep up the good work!)
(Goodbye! Keep up the good work!)語言的恩賜是真是的
(The gift of tongues is real)
(The gift of tongues is real)Sister 吳ardle
Pictures: Lantern Festival!, Annie 媽媽, Candid shot Annie Mama took, My Comp, Stinky Tofu
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