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| Parker and his companion, Elder Rhodes at their most recent Zone Conference. |
hey everyone!! not too much time
this week! weather here is AWESOME. like 50 degrees all the time! but... that
means that it is warm enough to be outside without your face falling off, which
means that all the crazy college frat parties are starting. i mean, it is 4 o’clock
on a monday afternoon and we got giant frat parties on every corner. what the
heck people? cmon...
anyway, things are good here!
working hard and finding some awesome people! met a cool girl named amy this
week (chinese) who doesn’t believe in God. we have been teaching her with
Richard Li's help and it is going awesome. Richard, Mark, Derek, and Mauricio
are all doing very well. I love those guys so much! we have been so richly
blessed!
The Gospel and Church are true.
Jesus is the Christ. Following anyone but Him will not bring full happiness. He
is perfect and can lead us to the fountain of living water, which ironically,
is within ourselves. The world appeals to the natural man and then busily runs
back and forth trying to clean up after the natural man. The Gospel teaches us
how to govern ourselves. But that is not all; it teaches us why we MUST govern
ourselves. Thus, orthodoxy, or the tying together of all the beautiful principles
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is the road to happiness, because the Gospel is
really the counsel of a super-intelligent Being teaching us how to find peace
and happiness in a cold universe that responds only to law. Man did not get to
the moon by having every astronaut do, "his own thing." Man got to
the moon by subscribing to and utilizing universal law. So too will our souls
reach the Kingdom of God not by making our own laws, but by utilizing and
subscribing to the laws put forth by our Universal Father. He is universal, and
yet personal. He hears and answers prayers. Faith is a real power, which our
Father responds to. Trust in and follow our Savior. While the world teaches us
the way to satisfaction is to, "go and get," Christ teaches us that satisfaction
comes from within us and cannot be replicated by outside sources.
The world exhausts me. It is
tiring. The Gospel is rejuvenating and uplifting. Repentance is the way to have
the Atonement of our Lord take effect in our lives. Repent every day.
Love,
Elder Green
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