Semana 78

Dear Elder Lutze,

I participated in a fun activity this week with the YW. I was on a panel of return sister missionaries and we answered the girls’ questions. I think some of them were shocked by my pictures! Because of this activity, I’ve thought a lot about my mission and the huge blessing it continues to be in my life. I re-read my 11 page final interview or letter to my President and what I learned on my mission. Wow! I don’t know if you know this but it was actually through reading the Book of Mormon that I received my answer to serve a mission! 

Rachael received great news this week! I’ll let her tell you! 

Foster and Hannah are moving to Texas in May. 

Natalie is working lot of hours! I hope you hear from her sometimes!

Remember we’ll be gone Feb 22 to March 12 with spotty service

I love this thought (see below) and to think about what I’m doing to bind Satan right now in my life! 

Love you! 

Keep working hard!

Mom

Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote the following explanation concerning this important verse: “What does it mean to bind Satan? How is he bound? Our revelation says: ‘And in that day Satan shall not have power to tempt any man.’ (D&C 101:28.) Does this mean that power is withdrawn from Satan so that he can no longer entice men to do evil? Or does it mean that men no longer succumb to his enticements because their hearts are so set on righteousness that they refuse to forsake that which is good to follow him who is evil? Clearly it means the latter. Satan was not bound in heaven, in the very presence of God, in the sense that he was denied the right and power to preach false doctrine and to invite men to walk away from that God whose children they were; nay, in this sense, he could not have been bound in heaven, for even he must have his agency. “How, then, will Satan be bound during the Millennium? It will be by the righteousness of the people” (The Millennial Messiah [1982], 668).