Semana 15

Elder Lutze,

I’m so grateful for you and the service you are providing for the people of Panama! Life was just a little crazy this week! 

We had two snow storms! So grateful for the moisture! 

I worked 48 hours this week! Busy week for me and so grateful Chrissy was still here to help the McBrides! 

Thursday all heck broke loose at their house. Hunter was in the ED with RSV Thursday morning and Diver with a severe reaction to his antibiotic that afternoon. He got Epinephrine and steroids. Then Diver went back on Saturday evening for a broken leg although X-ray doesn’t confirm it. If he doesn’t walk by tmr he’ll get a partial cast. Hunter wasn’t admitted, but is home on oxygen and they take him in for occasional suctioning! Foster gave them both priesthood blessings Thursday evening. Diver looks a million times better and Hunter is not getting worse. He’s about half way through! So grateful!

Dad and I were in the temple Friday with the same sealer we had the day we were with you and your friends! He was telling us of some oriental names he did recently from AD 57. It required special permission. 

 Mom

I’m still in Jeremiah 26:14-15

14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

I love his boldness. He reminds me of Abinadi and he’s fearless witness of Christ and the truth!

Mosiah 17:9-10

9 Now Abinadi said unto him: I say unto you, I will not recall the words which I have spoken unto you concerning this people, for they are true; and that ye may know of their surety I have suffered myself that I have fallen into your hands.

10 Yea, and I will suffer even until death, and I will not recall my words, and they shall stand as a testimony against you. And if ye slay me ye will shed innocent blood, and this shall also stand as a testimony against you at the last day.

And Christ’s response to His own impending death

John 19:11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

I love the Savior’s foreknowledge in the verses below and that He personally prayed for Peter! He does for us as well! Peter still wasn’t converted. Are we? What is true conversion? Is it doing anything for Jesus Christ regardless of the personal cost?

Luke 22:31-32

31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Why we should repent in this life…

Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Both spirit and body had appetites. One of life’s great challenges is to develop a dominance of spiritual appetites over those that are physical. Your willpower becomes strong when joined with the will of the Lord. Addiction to any substance enslaves not only the physical body but the spirit as well. Therefore repentance is best achieved while one still has a body to help attain spiritual supremacy. President Nelson