Repentance

This week was really good. It was interesting because it felt like we worked really hard, but we did not have much to show for it....Until Sunday. We have been working with a less active family this past transfer. The mom is a member and her two sons, one is ten and the other is twelve, have been coming to church every week. They walk all by themselves every week and read from the Book of Mormon everyday. They are the biggest examples to me of dedication to do what is right. 

Last night we read in 2 Nephi 32:1-5 with them. We talked about how it is the scriptures and the spirit that show us what we must do in this life. We invited them to start reading their scriptures as a family and their mom said she would. She told us that she has been gaining a desire to come back to church, and that this is where she is going to start. 

Lately I just have been learning about repentance and how it is something that we are always going through. Two scriptures that just stick out to me whenever I think about this refining fire that all must go through is first 3 Nephi 9:13 and how at the it asks ¨that he might heal you?¨ It is true all that Christ wants to do is fix the cut. Sew it up, make it clean. 

The other is Helamen 5:10 that talks about how he has not come to save us in our sins, but from our sins. I know that our Savior has come to help us to change, not allow us to submit to the natural man that is in all of us. I know that it is through him that we all BECOME like the father. I know repentance is real because I see and feel it happen daily.

Eu amo vocês,

Elder Cooper