Querida Glo,
Espero que todo esté bien!
This week we have had Rebecca and Baby and Brother with us so it has been a sweet week of family time. We all miss you and wish you could be here.
I hope all is well with you and Hermana Whitney and all your investigators.
Mommy is talking to Hanni right now and Rebecca is putting Baby to sleep. She and Brother are so sweet. They are a lot of work but bring so much joy to our lives.
I have had a rough week but there are some blessings from the Lord that I wanted to tell you about.
I was listening to Alma 5 this week in my reading. I listened to these scriptures:
Alma 5 -
5 And behold, after that, they were brought into bondage by the hands of the Lamanites in the wilderness; yea, I say unto you, they were in captivity, and again the Lord did deliver them out of bondage by the power of his word; and we were brought into this land, and here we began to establish the church of God throughout this land also.
6 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, you that belong to this church, have you sufficiently retained in remembrance the captivity of your fathers? Yea, and have you sufficiently retained in remembrance his mercy and long-suffering towards them? And moreover, have ye sufficiently retained in remembrance that he has delivered their souls from hell?
7 Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them.
8 And now I ask of you, my brethren, were they destroyed? Behold, I say unto you, Nay, they were not.
9 And again I ask, were the bands of death broken, and the chainsof hell which encircled them about, were they loosed? I say unto you, Yea, they were loosed, and their souls did expand, and they did sing redeeming love. And I say unto you that they are saved.
10 And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death, yea, and also the chains of hell?
11 Behold, I can tell you—did not my father Alma believe in the words which were delivered by the mouth of Abinadi? And was he not a holy prophet? Did he not speak the words of God, and my father Alma believe them?
12 And according to his faith there was a mighty change wrought in his heart. Behold I say unto you that this is all true.
13 And behold, he preached the word unto your fathers, and a mighty change was also wrought in their hearts, and they humbled themselves and put their trust in the true and living God. And behold, they were faithful until the end; therefore they were saved.
14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?
15 Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?
16 I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth?
So, this all meant so much to me. I have been at the hospital where I work and I have done surgery and interacted with people and all the surgeries have not gone perfectly and not all the interactions with the people have gone perfectly. By my actions and the actions of others I have been brought into a kind of bondage. I cannot leave, I cannot get another job, I cannot work, I cannot do my surgeries and I feel terrible. I am stuck here till my hearing in June and I literally have only by lawyer as my advocate. I am in a kind of bondage and like the people of Alma I am not without fault in all this.
Thankfully though, just like them, I need to have faith in the Savior, in my covenant promises with Him and I need to remember His power of deliverance and help.
I went to the temple on Saturday because Mommy and I were working. I saw Pres Doot, one of the temple presidency members and he asked me how my situation was and I told him, I was having a hard time. I have been given blessings where I have been promised I will be ok, I have had many witnesses that this will all be ok, but the worldly side of this keeps telling me it will not be ok and I will fail. The devil and his minions have been trying to constantly take me down and make me feel hopeless and despair, and this past week they were pretty successful. I told Pres Doot, I believe I will be ok but that I cannot see the end from the beginning and I don't know how I can be saved from this.
He told me a story, he said when Boyd K. Packer was called to the quorum of the 12, he needed to move to Salt Lake and he found a house for his big family but he could not afford it and he did not know what to do. He asked some of his friends in the quorum of the 12 apostles and each time he asked, he was assured it was the right thing to do to buy the house and he felt it was right, but he could not understand how it could be right. He asked over and over again. He got the same answer and yet he could not believe. Then he asked Harold B. Lee who became the prophet. Harold B. Lee heard his worries and concerns and then he said, "You need to follow the counsel you have been given".
I know I need to believe and follow my counsel given to me by God through a Patriarch, a Temple Pres member and lots of others who I trust with my life - Mommy, you, Hannah, Sis Dyerly, Pres Quillon, my brother Jake, my Mom and many experiences we have had as a family. Pray for my faith to be made strong and for me to be able to hold on to that through this process.
I love you Glo, thanks for your love and prayers and service.
Con amor,
Papá
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