the morning walk
and ducks
the lake by the library.
... and a goose
archirequetesuperultracontrarica!!!
(the spanish equivalent of
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!)
also try this one out- como cama coco como coco cama
and this one- otoroniringologo
Hola! Boy is it beautiful in Minnesota! It's super green and the
sky is blue and the birds are out and its actually up in the 80's! You can feel
the humidity as well, but so far I don't mind it. It's just nice to be
able to feel your toes again (:
There's not to much news other than we're back to square one,
out and about knocking doors and getting a wicked missionary tan- or more just
getting sun burned! haha so I haven't seen the sun in like 9 months and needless
to say I'm super white. And Hermana Maravilla is Mexican so she's always tan
and so she was laughing at my whiteness. I told her as the scriptures say
"I was most exceedingly fair and white above all other virgins." haha
she likes to scream and cover her eyes whenever I get out of the car and she
yells "It's so bright!" she's mean.
So since I finished reading the Book of Mormon again I decided
to start reading the Bible. and I'm addicted to reading it. whenever I get the
chance I read it. Just the same as when I was reading the Book of Mormon, only
the Bible's a lot bigger so I've got more to read. But I've read the stories
Samson, Ruth, Samuel, Saul and David so far. It's been interesting seeing
how those stories are applying to what I'm doing right now. A lot of the Bible
stories are all about repentance. About changing and really understanding and
loving and relying on the Lord.
I just want to write down two verses that I really liked from 1
Samuel
This verse is talking about when Samuel the Prophet commands
Saul to go and destroy the Amalekites and all that they have, but he saves some
of the animals to sacrifice and does not do what the Lord asks. Saul knew what
he had to do, but he believed that what he had to do was a better idea. Samuel
the Prophet rebukes him and asks him what the Lord wants more, a sacrifice or
obedience?
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey
is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
-We had one of our investigators argue that if God knows all
things, then He knew that we would sin, and therefore He expects us to sin.
Which is one of the arguments of predetermined destination.
It all comes down to trusting and understanding God and His plan
for us. I want to point out two things.
-Heavenly Father does expect us to sin.
it's part of Gods plan to
become like him. We have to face adversity and go through trials. That
knowledge only comes through knowing good and evil. We cannot know joy without
pain, and thus we know that we must be imperfect, which inevitably means we
will make mistakes and sin. however He does not compel us to sin. By definition
sin is doing anything contrary to Gods will. An act of our own to choose to
disobey God.
-Got already knows that we will not return to heaven
clean.
That is why His son, Jesus
Christ, is our center in everything. in short, without Jesus Christ we would
die both a physical and spiritual death. He agreed to go through with the plan
our Heavenly Father had for us in the beginning, and thus provided a way to be
forgiven, or in other words, to satisfy the demands of justice. Jesus Christ
suffered and died to overcome the inevitable death of being mortal, or
imperfect. one of our life long goals is to try to understand His Atonement.
The more we understand about the Atonement, the more we understand how free we
are to choose our own destinies.
Heavenly Father has a plan and He's set before us the way to
succeed. All He asks is that we obey. God does not exist so that we can praise
Him, He exists so that He can bring about the immortality and eternal life of
man. He lives for us, as we live for Him. He is a God of both justice and mercy.
Our lives are not predetermined. We have the God given right and
blessing of Agency. The ability to choose for ourselves what we really
want.
okay and then this one is just plain and simple. and awesome!
1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or
on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth
not as a man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord
looketh on the heart.
The Lord truly knows our hearts. He knows who we really are. If
God wasn't a loving God, He wouldn't care about who you really are. That says
something about His personality and Characteristics.
welp I'm out of time! Love you all!
Love,
Hermana Ficklin
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