Week 88 Senri: Loving like Christ

Hey Everyone,
Things are going well here in Senri, and our whole Zone is seeing tons of miracles there have been several companionships who have found people who are really interested and are being taught and prepared for baptism so fast. Just the other week one of the companionships from the neighboring area found a 19 year old guy who is way into baseball and believes in god. They taught him the Restoration and he felt the Spirit and was interested in meeting again. After meeting two more times he agreed to be baptized two weeks later. He is now getting baptized this Saturday and is looking more than prepared to make it without complications. It is so amazing!

I also just finished the Book of Mormon today, reading it all the way through focusing on Charity. I learned so many amazing things from doing this exercise and have come to know more and more of the depth and divinity of Christ-like Love. One of my favorite scriptures that hit me the most was right at the end. It was Moroni 10:32-33:

32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.

Christ’s Love is infinitely available for us, and if we “Love God with all [our] might, mind and strength” we will “keep [His] commandments” (John 14:15) and “feed [His] sheep” (John 21:17) and then we can be filled, cleansed, and sanctified by the “pure Love of Christ” which “Endureth forever.” So let’s “pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that [we] may be filled with this love,” and become “true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ” and “be like Him” and “be purified even as he is pure. Amen.” (Moroni 7:47-48)

Isn’t our Father in Heaven and His Word in the scriptures amazing! I love the Book of Mormon so much and can’t wait to start my next study tomorrow on the Atonement and Character of Christ. I hope that you all have a great week and see and recognize the many miracles of God happening all around you each day!

私はこの教会が確かに神様の唯一の真実の教会であることを知っています。

Elder Allred

I drew this the other day for an investigator