Semana 98

Dear Elder Lutze,

We pray all is well with you, E. Smith, and your third wheel! Hopefully he can work harder in Brazil! 

Life here’s been super busy with the boys. We’ve gone to parks, played outside, ridden bikes, played in the pool, read books, watched movies, gone to the zoo, and of course eaten ice cream! And changed lots of diapers! I’ll be here until Thursday and then it’s back to real life! I have also worked every day while they are napping or down for the night! So very full days! 

Alma 24:17 ‘Our Weapons of Rebellion’

Bury Weapons ~ Sins 

By burying their weapons deep in the earth, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies promised the Lord that they would never use them again. Scripture records, “They were firm, and would suffer even unto death rather than commit sin” (Alma 24:19). Their actions demonstrate the complete abandonment of sin following sincere repentance. 

President Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) taught that abandonment of sins often requires a change in our lifestyle: “In abandoning sin one cannot merely wish for better conditions. He must make them. He may need to come to hate the spotted garments and loathe the sin. He must be certain not only that he has abandoned the sin but that he has changed the situations surrounding the sin. He should avoid the places and conditions and circumstances where the sin occurred, for these could most readily breed it again. He must abandon the people with whom the sin was committed. He may not hate the persons involved but he must avoid them and everything associated with the sin. … He must eliminate anything which would stir the old memories” (The Miracle of Forgiveness [1969], 171–72). 

Alma 24:17 ​And now it came to pass that when the king had made an end of these sayings, and all the people were assembled together, they took their swords, and all the weapons which were used for the shedding of man’s blood, and they did ​​​bury​ them up deep in the earth.

I love you!

Love,

 Mom