Semana 33

Mi querida Elder Lutze,

He lives! He is risen! Happy Easter!!!

I don’t know about for you but for me the weeks are speeding by…

This week was just full of work and lots of snow. We had 2 feet piles after we shoveled the driveway! Crazy! Yes it’s April!! Dad and I did some more sealings yesterday. There are so many people with work to do, I think we’ll have most of these for you to work on when you return! Jaja! The temple is always super busy! Have I ever told you how much I love the temple?

Praying for you, E. Fabian, and your area! 

My thoughts on the Gift of the Holy Ghost… honestly the most important gift we will ever receive! This gift will direct us on the covenant path and enable us to return home to our Heavenly Father. I first realized this on my mission. 

I love you so much!

Mom

4.7.23 As the Savior came to the end of His final discourse to His disciples, He promised that the Holy Ghost would come to them and would “guide [them] into all truth” (John 16:13). This statement makes clear that divine revelation did not end with the death of Jesus Christ. The Holy Ghost guides the Savior’s true Church in every dispensation and also guides individuals in their efforts to find truth and live their lives in accordance with God’s will.

Elder Richard G. Scott (1928–2015) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained that we should seek for the Holy Ghost to guide us to truth: “Father in Heaven knew that you would face challenges and be required to make some decisions that would be beyond your own ability to decide correctly. In His plan of happiness, He included a provision for you to receive help with such challenges and decisions during your mortal life. That assistance will come to you through the Holy Ghost as spiritual guidance” (“To Acquire Spiritual Guidance,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2009, 6).

President Dallin H. Oaks explained what we must do to have the Holy Ghost guide us: “How do we take the Holy Spirit for our guide? We must repent of our sins each week and renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament with clean hands and a pure heart, as we are commanded to do (see D&C 59:8–9, 12). Only in this way can we have the divine promise that we will ‘always have his Spirit to be with [us]’ (D&C 20:77). That Spirit is the Holy Ghost, whose mission is to teach us, to lead us to truth, and to testify of the Father and the Son (see John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:13; 3 Nephi 11:32, 36)” (“Be Not Deceived,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2004, 46).

6.24.20 While the Fall opened the gate to the road of knowledge, it was the Atonement that provided the vehicle to proceed. Through the Atonement we are cleansed in the waters of baptism, making us eligible for the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is such a gift that “will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). As we come to know the Savior and his truths we enlarge our capacity for freedom. This is so because knowledge is power; and power, in its consummate expression is godhood; and godhood is the quintessence of freedom. p. 443

The Infinite Atonement Tad R. Callister