Dear Family and Friends,This week has been good. It's just good old overcast Kenai in the middle of July as usual, although today is looking pretty sunny out. We are preparing for a baptism this weekend, we made sure no one threw candy from floats in the fourth of July parade by riding up and down the parade route (we called ourselves the candy killers, but if people were throwing candy from the sidelines, they were still able to throw candy), and have been sick with colds and stomach aches.
We tried a famous bakery in Soldotna after district meeting this week- it is called "The Moose is Loose" and everyone raves about it. It was really good, but I don't love doughnuts that much. I would recommend it to anyone any everyone that does love them if they are ever in this part of Alaska. For district meeting we were talking about strengthtening our companionship unity so that our teaching can be in unity and we gave ways we could strengthen it, and ways we could ruin our unity. We put them all into a bag, and whenever we got a piece of paper that had to do with ruining our unity, for example, "shave off your companions eyebrows in their sleep" (this has never happened, they were made to be ridiculous), we had to cut off a piece of flour from a bowl shaped cone of packed flour with a piece of gum on top without fully knocking it down- if we did knock it down, we had to search the flour for that piece of gum without hands. Sister Sadlier was the one to knock down the gum, and she had flour all over her face after that.
As much as I dislike lunges sometimes I am making it a goal to do lunges more often. If I say that on here then I have to hold myself to it. I give permission for everyone to give me a hard time about it if I don't keep to it.
Missionaries are on the front lines of miracles. We can be in situations where there seems to be no hope for someone, however, knowing that the Savior has given all that he had and has overcome all, we are able then and only then to see the change this has in the heart of the people. One of our investigators was talking with us about forgiveness and I remembered something I learned from a teacher as I was in the MTC- There is no good in opening up a wound the Savior suffered and died trying to heal. As we have faith unto repentance and are cleansed through baptism, and continually renew those covenants, we can know that those sins can be remembered no more, and the hope that this can bring. The gospel is to make bad men good, and good men better, and we can always improve. Not one of us here is perfect. Virtue comes only from the one who holds perfect virtue: the Savior.
I was reading Alma 5 this morning as part of my personal study, and it has so much in there, so many questions to ask ourselves about where we are in coming closer to God, but one phrase that stood out in particular to me was in verse 34 and in verse 62- to "become partakers of the fruit of the tree of life". Note that I am not talking about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, as in the tree Adam and Eve partook of- and remember that the fruit of the tree of life is spoken of in and around 1 Nephi 8 and 11 and that it is the Love of God. The love of God is given to us through the Gospel, which, because he loves us, he has prepared us a way to return to him. As we use the Gospel in our own life, we can feel that love, that mercy, because we are accepting it and doing our part in being the "partaker", because we use the Gospel in our lives. Why would the Gospel, and the Atonement fit into every single subject- because it is the reason why we have the light of Christ, the ability to be cleansed, and the whole reason we are here.
Hope you all have a great week.
Love,
Sister Wuehler
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Isaiah 1:18, Moses 1:39
"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed..."
ism: "Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe"
"The final judgement is not just an evaluation of a sum total of good and evil acts- what we have done, It is an acknowledgement of the final effect of our acts and thought- what we have become. It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions... The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become." (Dallin H. Oaks "The Challenge to Become", Ensign Nov. 2000)
Pictures:
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| The Sterling/ Soldotna/ Kenai District! 4th of July before the parade |
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| This was the best thing in the parade- reenactment of that old photo |
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| Nikiski |
Letter from July 2, 2012 - Excerpts:
A young man who has been investigating the church, who has had a dark past, and is truly seeking something more to his life "came up to us on Sunday and said that he'd been continuing to read and pray,...and he said he just knew beyond a doubt; there were too many good things falling into place to be a coindidence! "
Sacrament meeting was AWESOME yesterday also! The young men had just returned home from a scout encampment up in Wasilla with members of the Seventy, and inspirational speakers. so many of them went up and bore their testimony! This is a few of the things which were said:
- "I would put my mission papers in today--I would leave today." (age 13)
- "After feeling what I've felt, there's no way it couldn't be true.."
- Doctrine and Covenants 18:15-16
And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father! And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!
- "you save your life, you shall lose it; if you lose your life for my sake, ye shall find it..."
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