Semana 72

Elder Lutze,

You’re amazing! We love you and pray for your success!!! Thank you for being a great example of sharing the Book of Mormon. 

This week has been a whirlwind!!!  We came home from SG Monday and then I proceeded to work 50 hours in 4 days! Two of those were literally nonstop!! Definitely not as enjoyable as a nonstop flight  somewhere warm! The snow is coming down and it is super windy  today! Dad and I did enjoy a play at the Hale and I went to the temple on Saturday! I wanted to share with you the tender mercy from my temple experience. At times we all need reassurance that He knows us personally and hears our prayers. As I received my 5 names for initiatories, I looked at the first name and it was a lady from Salta Argentina! I’ve never had a name from Argentina, much less from Salta. Definitely a tender mercy for me that my Heavenly Father and His Son do know me personally and hear my prayers. And apparently, I was saying the names so well, one sister stopped me and asked where I was from?

Have a great week! I may not be able to talk tmr… depends on when you call, if not we’ll talk next week.

 Mom

Thought ~ I’m grateful you are earnestly contending for the faith!!

Do I earnestly contend for the faith? 

President Wilford Woodruff (1807–98) related how as a young man he had sought after the faith that had been taught by Jesus Christ and the Apostles: “I read the New Testament. I learned verse after verse and chapter after chapter. … It taught me the Gospel of life and salvation; it taught me a Gospel of power before the heavens and on the earth. It taught me that the organization of the Church consisted of Prophets, Apostles, Pastors and Teachers. … “These are the things which I learned, and they made an impression upon me. I believed in them; yet I had never heard them taught by any clergyman or divine upon the earth. … On one occasion I attended one of those great meetings which were sometimes held in Connecticut, at which forty or fifty ministers of various denominations were gathered together. … At this meeting permission was given for anybody to make remarks. I was quite young then. I arose and stepped into the aisle, and I said to that body of ministers: ‘My friends, will you tell me why you don’t contend for the faith once delivered to the Saints? Will you tell me why you don’t contend for that Gospel that Jesus Christ taught, and that His Apostles taught? Why do you not contend for that religion that gives unto you power before God, power to heal the sick, to make the blind to see, the lame to walk, and that gives you the Holy Ghost and those gifts and graces that have been manifest from the creation of the world? …’ “The presiding elder said: ‘My dear young man, you would be a very smart man, and a very useful man in the earth, if you did not believe all those foolish things’” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff [2004], 35–36). 

 3 ​Beloved, when I gave all diligence to ​​​write​ unto you of the common ​​​salvation​, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort ​you​ that ye should ​​​earnestly​ ​​​contend​ for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/jude/1?id=p3&lang=eng#p3