Hola mi familia!!!!!
How are you all? I hope that life is just being fantastic to you :)
My week has been great! on sunday our district got to do the sacrament meeting for the cafeteria workers, it was so great! saw one person i knew, so it was pretty fun:) we had to miss most of relief society on sunday because of it, but its all good.
The highlight of my week was to talk that we listened to for the sunday night 'movie.' we watched The Character of Christ by Elder Bednar...talk about a good talk!!! It is sad because I don't think you can get access to the talk outside of the MTC, but it was so good! The main part of the talk was about how Christ always turned outward in compassion when the natural man would turn inwards. when he suffered in the garden the first thing he did afterwards is heal the guards ear. When he was suffereing on the cross, he made sure His mother would be taken care of. And countless other experiences when he healed others. Elder Bednar said that the natural man is like the cookie monster....and then he did the funniest impression I have ever heard of the cookie monster before in my life, haha. The natural man wants things and he wants them now. we always consetrate on ourselves when we are sick or hurt, but Christ never did. We need to put off the natural man and follow christ. He talked about repentance and how it meant to turn. He said that it means to turn away from concentrating on the self and focus on others. All sin is selfish, even the little things. But as we turn outward instead of inward, we will be coming closer to how the Savior was.
Another part that I really liked is when he talked about when Christ was fasting and Satan came tempting Him. He said there was only one main temptation and several smaller ones. Yeah Satan tempted Him to turn the stones to bread, but the real temptation came when Satan said, 'if though be the Son of God...' Satan tempts us all with the question of divine nature at some point in life, but just like the Savior we can keep our tesimonies of the gospel and who we really are in our hearts and teach that Satan a thing or two!
He then talked about testimony and conversion. He said that testimony is what you know to be true, and conversion is constantly being true to what you know. Faithful people fall away from the church because they are not converted to the gospel. people can still fall away with the strongest testimonies because they are not truely converted. He applied this to missionary work and told us that we need to help our investigatiors be converted and not just gain testimonies.
Well other than that we have been studying about the Holy Ghost and how important it is to constantly have it in our lives and during the mission. The Holy Ghost is the real teacher, and missionaries can't get in the way of that! The comforter was given to the apostles when Christ could not be there any more. it is a way for Him to still teach us even though he can't phisically be here at all times. Anyway...true story :)
I love you all and I miss you dearly! Hope you are enjoying everything that is going on and remember who you are! The Church is true and great! Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you and so do I!!!!
Adios!!!!!
~Hermana Crawford
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