Hey y'all,
Whew! What an amazing day! How are you amazing and wonderful children of God doing today???? Can I invite each of you to do something??? Just say to yourself... in your mind or outloud these words "I'm a child of God"... I love saying that to myself! Repeat that to yourself anytime you're feeling down, frustrated, stressed, etc... even if you think its cheezy and dumb! Cause no matter who you are, or what you do, or what you think about it... it will help you feel better. I promise :)
Alrighty... so what to talk about???? Transfers happened. Got a new companion named Elder Macoubrie... he was the District leader here in the Atlanta District... he's awesome!!! Love serving with him. He's pretty tall and from Colorado. Got all new District leaders in the Zone... one of them being Elder Harding from my MTC District... and its humbling to be able to serve alongside of such amazing and mighty missionaries and priesthood men. They're amazing and are doing great work.
When we help one another, we are doing the work of the Lord. Think of this... the two great commandments... do you know what they are? Love God and love everyone. Well, ok... that's not word for word but thats my personal summary of the two. You know whats so interesting about those 2 great commandments though? Well, there's a lot of interesting things about them... one being that ALL the other commandments tie back into them... but perhaps the most interesting thing about them is that they both tie back into ONE single, EXTREMELY important thing.... any guesses??? It's love. They both tie back into the single origin of all things... the single driving purpose of EVERYTHING that we know and have yet to come to know... its love. Love is the ultimate of ultimates... its not just something we have or feel... it's EVERYTHING. Think about it... why do we have the plan of salvation? What is our Heavenly Fathers purpose? What was His intent behind everything??? Why was the Savior sent here to atone for our sins?? Love. It's all about love..... I can testify to each and every one of you that love is everything... and that as we love others, we show our love to God. The 2 great commandments are one in the same. We love God by loving and serving others and we love others by loving God... I invite each of you to pray and look for opportunities to love others. Help each other out! We're all one big family... lets be one big family of love :)
I love you all so much. I gotta run cause time is out but I'll have some stories for you next week. Just don't forget to love!
-Elder Wahlen
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