Sorry once again that we weren't on to chat again this week. We got an offer to ride to Bacolod from the couple missionaries who came to do an apartment check this morning. Can't pass up a free ride with air conditioning! We're here now, and I hope this email finds all of you in good spirits!
So this week is transfers, I really hope that I don't get transferred! I would really like to stay here in my first area, with all the people I've grown to love, for Christmas! Like I said last week we got a new bishopric and I'm excited to get to work with them as well! I can already see the impact the new bishopric has! We had PEC for the first time I've been here, yesterday. And also for the first time since I've been all 3 members of the Bishopric were at church before it started!
I'm also excited for this next month because we have investigators who will be baptized! Sister JellyAnn has been to church for 3 weeks in a row now! She comes with her less active friend Jhesnie, who has been coming back to church with her so that is awesome! Jhesnie didn't want to go to young women for some reason yesterday but even though she didn't JellyAnn still did! I'm excited for her to be baptized, and I can tell she is too! We also have other investigators who say they want to be baptized, they just need to come to church first! haha
So during yesterday I read a quote from Elder Dallin H. Oaks and I thought I would share it with you! Before you read this quite tho I want each of you to think of the how you picture the Final Judgment taking place.
"The Final Judgment is not just an evaluation of a sum total of good and evil acts—what we have done. It is an acknowledgment of the final effect of our acts and thoughts—what we have become."
After reading that quote my thought of the final judgment totally changed. When I first thought of it I kind of pictured it as us going through some of the good and bad things we have done in our lives, but when I read this statement it made me realize that that isn't exactly how it's going to go. It will be a judgment based on who we have become. We have our entire lives to repent of our mistakes and to become the best person we can and should be. Why not start today so that when we face the Holy one of Israel at the gate we can say that we have become the best we can. That your final you is better than the beginning and middle you! I don't why this quote had such a profound impact on me, but I hope it can change your perspectives as well. I love each and everyone of you! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We actually forgot about Thanksgiving until the morning of, but then we bought food and had our own Celebration just the four of us in our apartment that night! We had chicken, ham, mango float, and mango shakes! It was great!
As we get closer and closer to Christmas I invite each of you to remember our Savior and his love for each of us. And when you remember his love for you, how much easier it will be for you to share your love with others!
Love,
-Elder Walters
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