Easter Week

       I'm so grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Be diligent in searching for those scriptures that teach about the Atonement. That will enlighten not only your understanding of the Atonement but you will come to know how real it is.  I love the Book of Mormon, I haven't finished marking the scriptures that talk about the Atonement, but each prophet teaches us so much about it. I mean there are numerous and more examples of ways we can apply the Atonement. I mean it is full of teachings about the Atonement, " For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do."

  "Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engrave these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow..."

  "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."

      I love the Book of Mormon...it has helped me to understand Christ's role, and also His Atonement. It is so valuable, it would be a shame not to read them.

Truly being a missionary and serving the Lord as His servant, has helped me have a greater love for all of Father's children. I never knew I could love people and feel the way I do about them. When they are having a really hard time...you feel so much for them, I cannot imagine completely how Father or Jesus feel about us. There are only few evidences that show that but, I felt so badly for this one person..I loved him and was so happy for him to see how the Gospel has changed his life. I was so sad to see him so depressed and so overwhelmed with the loss of his brother...he was drinking and just so depressed. My heart longed for him and I wanted to just take it all right off of him.
       He has his agency..and thinking of it now, that's how Father see us. We go through trials that overwhelm us, He wants to take those off our backs, if He were to completely take them off, that would rob our progression our experience, if He were take away all the opposition in the world, that would rob our agency. I know everything will turn out okay with him, but I just felt for him. Those struggles are swallowed up in the Atonement. All that is unfair about life will be rectified or made up through the Atonement. All of our loses will be made up.

     Oh I received a great gift this week. I finally was able to go to the temple this last Friday. Good Friday. It had been 18 months since I went to the temple. I love the Spirit that is felt there. :) It truly fills the soul. Temples are awesome! :)