so we had zone conference this week. take a guess who our special guest was? alex boye one of the only african amercan singers in the mormon tabernacle choir. he told us his whole life storey. alex told us about how when he was in boarding school kids we take his food all the time at lunch. till one day two of his cousins transfered to that school. he said they were huge!!! he likened to when angless are always with us, expecially as missionaries. he then asked how many people were in the room? Elder Cowan blurted out about 80. Alex Boye said 80 people that you can see, he went oon how angels are always beside us on our right and our left (D+C 84:88). angles have protected us our whole lives. they have prepared people for us. if we open a new area and we think its just us and our companion always remember we have angels beside us just like his cousins, people wouldn't take his food because of his cousins were huge. :) he then started talking about how he was homeless and eating out of trash cans. he quoted D+C 122 where it says that all hese things shall be for thy good.
what we understand as good and what the lord knows good is two different things. the lords good is found in 1nephi 19:9. "And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they aspit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving bkindness and his clong-suffering towards the children of men." who are we to murmur if that what good is in gods eyes?
he then said alot of really profound quotes that i liked:
-without faith it is immpossible to please god
this next one he likened it to missionary wok
-satan knows how powerful you are and knows how mant people you can effect. so he's going to discoarage you and bring you down
this week though we have five baptizims. the garcia family is thursday at seven. and ashley vanzweedens is saturday at two as long as she doesn't smoke this week. shes overcome alot of obstacles. yesterday in president interviews Prez Olson said that this is the last transfer that elder ramsey and I will be together. next transfer i asked him if i could stay in hooper and he said that id be getting a missionary that struggling a little bit, so i get to learn love and charity and patience next transfer :)
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Elder Tyler Herring
"...the standard of truth has been erected; No un hallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done." ~ Joseph Smith Jr
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