Week 96 - Swedish Farm, French Girls
Wow I go home next week! I have a million emotions right now. I'm
stilling loving life but I'm also excited to come home and start the
next stage of my life.
We had a great week! One highlight was getting to travel out to some
members that live too far away to come to church and help on their
farm! We got to eat really good food that was home made and home grown
and home milked. So good! We also got to meet two girls working as
interns that were staying there with them from France. They were
awesome and we now have contact with them. The couple that owns the
farm reads from the Book of Mormon at every meal so they got their own
copies in French and they thought it was very interesting!
We also had the Elders from Skellefteå come and stay for work-overs
and that was fun. Elder Ahonen and I are both going home so it made
the reality kinda hit us of how little time we really have left.
A scripture I really liked this week.
1 Nephi 11
"22 And I answered him, saying: Yea, it is the love of God, which
sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men;
wherefore, it is the most desirable above all things.
23 And he spake unto me, saying: Yea, and the most joyous to the soul."
Experiencing the love of God changes our hearts, but it takes work for
us to realize how much God really loves us. What kind of work? We have
to learn about Him and try the virtue of His word in order to truly
understand and experience how much God really loves us. We don't earn
His love; He gives it freely to everyone. However, we do have to work
to understand it. We learn about God by having experiences with Him.
The scriptures work as a guide to help us have our own personal
experiences with God by telling about other people's experiences with
God. No wonder Nephi learned that the rod of iron in his father's
vision represented the word of God and that only by clinging to it and
continuing to follow where it led could they taste the fruit that
filled Lehi's soul with "exceedingly great joy".
I love you all,
Hope you have a great week!
Äldste Denton
