Sunday School

Great news- one of the families we are teaching finally made it to church yesterday- and guess what, THEY LOVED IT! how awesome is that? It was pretty fantastic. The 13 year old daughter felt very welcomed in Young Womens and the 8 year old son loved primary. He even knew the answers to the questions in sharing time (that'll make you feel good as a teacher eh?) The question was asked- what do we need to do to go to Heaven? and he raises his hand -knowing the answer - and exlaims -GET BAPTIZED. yahoo! He was right! We do- that is the first saving ordinace we partake of. But I would ask - aftrer you have entered in by the way of baptism and received the HOly Ghost - is all done? No. YOu have only made it this far becasue of the word of Christ - and your unshaken faith in Him. So you need to continue doing that. and the church makes it weasy for us to do so - Go to church! Read your scriptures - and pray! Yay. i have received many promises that if I continually feat upon the scriptures - specifically the Book of Mormon - I will never lose my testimony. isn't that neat? all becasue of a book. but it is not just any book - it is the word of God. 

ALso- all the Laws and ordinances of the gospel help us to endure as well. Those can be found in lesson 5 of chapter 3 in PMG. by the way, in following up from Elder Ballard's talk in this Last General Conference, how is your study Of Preach My Gospel coming along? I have not received any  letters or emails of what you have been learning in your personal study of that inspired manual - I hope it is going well! 

anyway- on to waht I wanted to write about in enduring to the end - and how the church has it set up so perfectly that we can!

 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a 4 fold mission:

Proclaim the Gospel

Perfect the Saints

Redeem the Dead and

Care for the Needy.

Neat right? I didn't know about this until this year - maybe it is supposed to be kept quiet? nah- it is way too wonderful to be kept hushed. and everything in the church falls into one of those four categories - that is what I have been studying in PMG lesson 5

I am sorry this week is BOOOORING. and now I am done with my 5 week mini series. and I will return to my usual ramblings.. I don't know if you should be excited or not....

I am safe, warm, and happy and loving this work! oh and by the way - the family we are teaching is going to get baptized in two weeks! yahoo for entering by the way and taking the steps to the celestial kingdom to be forever as a family!

Sister STuart