Hello Mom, Dad, and Jordan,
The New Year is upon us.
I remember years back when we were
celebrating the New Year (I don’t know when or where) but I had a thought in my
little brain.
"They say it’s
a new year now that January 1st is here. But all that means is that we went around
the
sun once from where we were last year. Today is also a New Year because we have gone
around the sun again, just on a different step."
I pondered on that thought
Tuesday night as we were lying on our mattresses on the flat
roof of our
garage, looking up at the stars. I was brought to better understanding as I
read Elder Soares' talk from this last conference where he quoted president
Snow. President Lorenzo Snow, the fifth
prophet of our dispensation, taught, “It
is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our
course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we
did them yesterday.”11 So the first step to
becoming meek is to improve day by day. Each
day we need to try to be better than the previous as we move forward through
this process. President Snow added: “We have our little follies and our
weaknesses; we should try to overcome them as fast as possible, and … should
[instill] this feeling in the hearts of our children … that they may learn to
[behave] properly before Him under all circumstances. If the husband can live with his wife one day
without quarreling or without treating anyone unkindly or without grieving the
Spirit of God … he is so far perfect. Then let him try to be the same the next day. But supposing he should fail in this his next
day’s attempt, that is no reason why he should not succeed in doing so the
third day.”
So, that was something
that struck me. Anyways, I have a nice
little story for you. Last Monday when I
got on the computer to email, I didn’t get moms email. I figured I would just read it next week. During the middle of the week, we had three
forms we needed to fax to the office. We
faxed them on Tuesday night, but on Wednesday the office said they had not
received them. On Thursday we tried
again but had no luck, so Friday we decided to go to the Cluster’s home
(another Senior Couple in Bloemfontein; we have Two sets of Senior Couples)
where we attempted to fax them again. The
fax number didn’t go through so we had to scan them and send them through my
email. I noticed when I logged on that
your email was there so I printed it off and read it in the car as we drove to
our next appointment. It was a very well
put and moving story. We arrived at our
appointment. We were going to see
Virginia (name changed for anonymity purposes). I had the thought to bring the
letter so I did. She has not been moving
forward as much as she ought. She has
slowed down and is being a little resistant to Heavenly Father. As we talked to her, I felt to read her the
letter. It was moving, and she was
touched. I think it was a heavenly
sequence of events that led to me having the letter at that time to share with
her.
The M------ family is
also doing outstanding. We fasted with
them this last Sunday for their father. Ma
asked us for a blessing of strength and in the blessing the promise was given
that her righteous desires and actions will be a standard to her family to
which they will rise. Her daughter and
the two sons are EEEAAGEERR to be baptized on the twenty-sixth of this month. Heavenly Father and we want the father to be
baptized with them, so we will see if that is possible. I know I haven’t mentioned much about him, and
that’s because we haven’t sat with him in two weeks. Hopefully that will change this week.
So, as for my hand, YES,
I am counting down the days! “Get these
wires out of me!” Among that, on Saturday
I strained my left shoulder while doing pull ups, so I’ll be recouping that. But, your right mum, I won’t let it slow me
down.
I love you guys dearly. See
ya latter.\\
Elder Gold
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