It looks like you guys have had quite an amazing and eventful week! Full of Youth Conference and other awesome stuff! I hope everyone had a great time at Youth Conference and that they paid attention to what the Speakers had to say.
So we've had an amazing week also! The family that we have been working with finally got married and baptized! The wedding was beautiful, El Parque de las Aguas is extremely beautiful. The Couple was very happy that they got to have a wedding as beautiful as it was! Hopefully I'll put up photos today or tomorrow! The following day the family, members of the ward, and us gathered together in the Chapel for their Baptisms. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget. It is something very sacred to me and in a year I'll probably share it with you guys, but if I wrote it on here it wouldn't do it justice. So I'll tell you guys about it in a year!
I'm so happy that the Lord gave us the opportunity to meet and help this family. To help them get to know their Savior and to make covenants with him. It is a miracle that this family got married and baptized. Our Heavenly Father is a God of miracles and if we have sufficient faith he can work miracles in our lives! (see Ether 12:12) If we have faith, we have to be willing to show it by making changes and repenting of the things that we have done wrong and asking the lord for forgiveness. (See Alma 34:17)
So during this transfer I have really gained a testimony about keeping the commandments. By keeping all of the commandments that the Lord gives us, we Will Be Happy. God doesn't give us commandments to put restrictions on our lives and to make our lives boring. It is the Opposite! Sometimes we ask ourselves why God wants us to do certain things or not do certain things and we try to make judgement about why he gave us a certain commandment. There is something very important that the prophet Nephi teaches us. (Im going to write the Scripture in Spanish and translate it literally so that you guys can understand it.) it says,
"Dios no hace nada a menos que sea para el beneficio del mundo; porque el ama al mundo, al grado de dar su propia vida para traer a todos los hombres a el. Por tanto, a nadie manda el que no participe de su salvacion" - 2nd Nephi 26:24
Literally it says " God doesn't do anything unless it is for the benefit of the world, because he loves the world, to the degree of giving his own life for the world in order to bring all men to him. Wherefore, to none he commands to NOT participate in his salvation" That's what it says translated literally.
God has done everything, does everything, and will do everything according to his wisdom. (see 2 Nephi 2:24) Sometimes we don't understand why a commandment is the way it is, but it doesn't matter, Our Heavenly Father already knows why, and it's for our benefit. I promise you guys that by keeping the commandments of God You Will Be Happy.
Well I hope you guys have a great week this week! I know I will!
Be safe and remember to do the things you should do!
Love you guys!
-Elder CJ Wilson
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