Semana 57

Dear Elder Lutze, 

I hope this last week went really well for you and your companion Elder Rendon! 

Another busy week of course!!! I went to the traveling tabernacle which was absolutely one of the coolest things to see! There’s so much symbolism in our temples today that is carried through from the Old Testament times!!! I love it! It’s just more proof that the gospel is true!!!

Our Emotional Resilience group met again on Wednesday. I’m so grateful for these ladies-the love and support they give me! 

I’m really looking forward to General Conference! I love listening for personal revelations! Dad says we’re going to do cookie faces instead of Pizzart. We’ll see how those turn out!

Our Cedar City weekend was great! We saw Emma and The Play That Went Wrong! We ate great food from The Pizza Cart, Jimmy John’s, and Las Flores. Of course there was ice cream involved at night along with some Canasta. We also did some DI shopping and wore the wigs dad found to our play that night! 

My thought for today… the gospel is FREEDOM!

Paul taught that when the veil of blindness is taken away from our hearts, the Spirit of the Lord brings liberty into our lives (see 2 Corinthians 3:17). Those who obey the gospel of Jesus Christ are freed from the captivity of the adversary. President Gordon B. Hinckley testified: “The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior. Its fruits are sweet and its rewards are liberal” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1965, 78; see also the commentary for John 8:30–32). 

Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught that it is Satan, not God, who seeks to destroy agency and liberty: “It is an eternal principle that has existed with God from all eternity that man should be free. God ordained the law of agency in [the premortal life] so that his spirit children could either follow him or rebel against his laws and go to perdition with Lucifer. Then in this mortal probation man again was given freedom of choice, freedom to gain salvation by obedience or to be damned through disobedience. Since Satan always seeks to destroy the agency of man, he influences churches and governments to deny freedom of worship and to force man to perform acts contrary to the divine will. Governments and churches which curtail or deny man the power to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, are not of God; they are not directed by the power of his Spirit” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 2:415–16).

I love you!  

Mom