The tropical storms are starting to role in, about everyday! Which has taught me the importance of being prepared. Yesterdays was so bad we thought we were going to have a hurricane and then we started freaking out because we haven't put together our 72 hr kits yet!
Its crazy because we will be in the house with the AC on so I think its going to be all cold, but then we step outside...nope not even close. The coldest it has been is about 78*. Even at night!
I have fallen in love.....
and its with the Book of Mormon. I have always loved it, and knew that I could learn so much from it, but the experiences I have been having are so amazing, and with verses I have read over and over again. It has been such a blessing to me, and I feel the great blessings of bearing my testimony of it all day everyday. It is the "MOST correct book on earth," read and pray and you will know. It will tell you all things you need to know and guide you on every path!
This past week Sister Mckay and I talked about how we can be better missionaries, how can we improve so that miracles keep coming, and so that people will recognize us as representatives of Jesus Christ, that we can bear testimony, and leave them knowing who we represent and that our message is true.
Everyone in the mission has been doing some thing called the purification fast. Its where you fast for 40 days from things that might be taking you away from your purpose. The Elder that wrote it up saw a lot of miracles from it.
But I thought it was kinda weird, why would we just do it for 40days why would we put a time limit on it. So we decided we were just going to make of list of things that were distracting or 'worldly' and just work on not doing them for the next 10 months. For me one is music. Singing music from the world. The Anti-Nephi-Lehis didnt decide to bury their weapons for only 40 days. They made a covenant with God. Covenants are eternal. We learn from Alma 23 that to be a real convert we must lay down our weapons of rebellion. What are our weapons of rebellion that are keeping us from a full conversion? I have many and they are hard to forsake but that is why we have the beauty of the Lords Atonement.
Alma 23:7 For they became a righteous people; they did lay down their weapons of rebellion, that they did not fight against God anymore, neither any of their brethren.
8 Now, these are they who were converted to the Lord.
And they were converts for life. They died to keep their covenants. Their sons were the sons of Mosiah! They influenced generations by keeping their covenants with the Lord.
Alma 24:5 Now there was not one soul among all the people who had been converted unto the Lord that would take up arms against their brethren; nay they didnt even make any preparations for war..."
As I think and write about this I get overwhelmed by the task. Because the truth is, none of us will ever be perfect. But with the Church of Jesus Christ we have the tools to try our best! I wish I could shout it from the mountain tops....well there are no mountains or hills here...so the building tops. "Read the Book of Mormon! Pray about it! Come to church! Your life will be full! The full comprehension of the Saviors atonement will change you, it will heal you"
I know with every fiber of my being this is the true church. I have felt it through prayer, and I have seen it in the example of my family and friends, I have felt it through the amazing members here in Florida, and the investigators that have changed my life, and what really helps the most is studying from the Book of Mormon! This is the well of water springing up into everlasting life...we will never thirst. (John 4:14).
xoxo
All my love
-Sister Koutz
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