God's Love

Wanted to share a beautiful message from one of the stores in the Ensign this month,

"How often we beleive the message of the adversary that we are beyond hope? But the prophets tell us otherwise. Isaiah proclaims, 'Let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy unto him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." Mormon in the Book of Mormon says, 'As oft as they repented and sought forgiveness, with real intent, they were forgiven.' The joy of the gospel is that it is never too late. For as often as we seek forgivness, the Lord's redemption will allow us to start anew. "

The Atonement has been brought up SOOOO much as of late. Lol. Sometimes we try to change, we feel like, "Really?? I'm down on my knees again to you pleading for forgivenss for the same things over and over again. Nothing changes, there is no hope because I keep making the same mistakes." Oh my goodness family that is the Atonement in a nut shell. It is there to be used. Someone very close to me expressed that this week. I pleaded to my Heavenly Father to use me as his instrument, so that I could exrpess the Saviour's love that he has for this daughter of His, and for her to NEVER lose hope. And i've never felt the Sprit stronger when I felt the love for this child of God.

To anyone who reads this, I hope yous all know how much the Saviour and our Father in Heaven love you. I know this sounds really sappy and overused like you've heard it 1,000 times, but like when Moroni comes to visit Joseph Smith that night 3 TIMES with the same message! It never changed!.... It's true, it's the same message over and over again. But it's true, as true as the first time you heard it, and the truth will never change.

The work is going so strong in the Other Side of Heaven! But the lessons i've been learning have been so priceless to me. Definitly one of the many reasons God's sent me here in this Tongan ward. What a guy!

Hope you have a fantastic week! Sorry the email is kind of all over the place again!

Ofa atu!

P.s. Happy Halloween! And probably Thanksgiving while I'm at it! Because 'Straylia don't celebrate any holiday haha.

Pictures:

-Bowling game going strong

-Repping that Tonga for ya! 

-Oi yous wouldn't beleive it, Tonga vs. Samoa this week and TONGA WONNN. Farr they're acting like they won the whole Cup but all goods, this is the game that matters haha. Just imagine Utah vs. BYU times a thousand because they're countries. But yeah, it's big.

-Elder Santana, funnies Elder, he calls me mom all the time when he sees me, just because he started his mission in this area while I'm STL (mission lingo i guess haha