HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
So unfortunately, I do not like chinese new year that much (at least on the mission, in reality it would be great) because everyone and their mothers or anyone that can at least speak a little bit of mandarin (okay I am being dramatic, but it feels like it) heads home to Mainland, which means no contact with them.
Luckily this is only like a week long holiday so we only have like 3 more days of them being gone before we can talk with them, but I am not a fan! So our next thought was, "No problem we will find for the Cantonese missionaries since we are all on the same team" yeah...no. The streets had NO ONE!
SO then our next thought was do calls of formers. Another bad idea. It is a little inconsiderate to call people because they are spending time with their families on these days. So mafan!
Anyways, luckily president Lam being bendi knew this so put zone conference on one of these days. The assistants gave a great training on the restoration reminding us that this is our unique and special message to the world. It was super good to rethink and realize how marvelous this message is and how much power it brings when it is taught right.
They posed the question to us, "What does the restoration mean to you?" As we went home and I pondered on this question I felt so happy. Without the Restoration we wouldn't have the Book of Mormon, we wouldn't know much about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and I definitely would not have as close relationship with my Savior and know Him like I do now! I just feel extremely blessed and so thankful!
Well I think that is it.. hopefully when people come back life will get more exciting!
Oh yeah transfer calls came and sister Dodge and I are safe and I will spend my last transfer in Kowloon, thank goodness! Unfortunately that means that I am in my last transfer and everyone in my zone doesn't let me forget it.. Oh well, one last transfer to kill it :)
Love,
Sister Loo
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May this definition of faith bless you in your life. Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith