This email will be kinda short, sorry, but last week was pretty simple. We knocked on doors. It was great! We had a lot of people make fun of us and one guy very seriously threatened to shoot us (most people just kinda throw out that threat but this guy seemed pretty legit). It didn't really even phase us though, we're use to it.
These scriptures basically sum up what I learned from last week:
James 1:2-4
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
1 Chr 29:17
"I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things"
Ether 12:6
"for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith"
2 Timothy 2:3
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ"
1 Cor 9:24-27
"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway"
Ether 12:27
"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them"
Matthew 16:25-26
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
1 Peter 1:7
"That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ"
Trials are to teach us. They rarely feel good, but that is what we signed up for, to receive a better reward.
Love y'all!
Elder Harper
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