letters. They were filled with fun news and great information. It is
so fun to read about all that you are doing in your lives. I am
impressed by how much you each are looking for ways that you can
improve in your lives in all sorts of areas.
This week definitely went by a lot faster than the last couple of
weeks and was filled with all sorts of crazy experiences. Craziest of
all was Saturday. We only had a couple planned lessons that day and
they were for after dinner so we had the whole day to fill. We planned
out various contacting places, times we would go tracting and trying
to find less-active members. But place after place that we went we ran
into crazy men! It was so weird. But the night ended great with us
getting stood up by one investigator but a different family that we
had tracted into a couple of weeks ago randomly decided to show up at
the Church. We had a great lesson with them and then two lessons right
after that with two less-active/recent converts. Although that day was
long, hard, and weird, the Lord was so gracious to us by sending us
that wonderful family. I have been trying to be sensitive to the times
when the Lord is letting me struggle and then the times when he picks
me back up again. I am finding more and more that the blessings are
contingent on my faith and my dilligence through the struggles. I have
heard thousands of stories and testimonies about this very thing, but
I love experiencing it first hand. It is a lot easier for me to get
through the hard times by reminding myself that the Lord has even
greater blessings in store.
As I mentioned last week I have started reading the Book of Mormon
again. I have noticed that two attributes of the Savior that are used
extremely often are "mercy" and "grace". I love that Nephi didn't
acknoweldge His mercy and grace in 1 Nephi 1 and call it good. He was
ever conscience of these amazing attributes of the Savior. There are
so many levels of our lives that the Atonement of Jesus Christ applies
to. I love seeing the various struggles that our investigator's have
and been able to promise them with all of my heart that the Lord truly
does understand them. There is no pain too large or too small for the
Atonement to satisfy.
While I was in the MTC I started reading "Jesus the Christ" and I LOVE
it! I look forward each morning to learning more about the background
and life of the Savior that is not taught in the scriptures. Something
that I have found common amont many of the Chapters is how involved in
the life of the Savior Satan was. I know that knew this, but reading
it in a new light is making it so much more clear to me. So many
people were convinced by Satan to be His servants and I am sure that
they had no idea they were playing in the eternal scheme of things. It
is amazing how easily we can be convinced to take Satan's side just
because it is easy. I hope that each of us can take a look at
seemingly harmless things that we do that make us step over on to
Satan's side, even if it is just with the corner of our little baby
toe. Heaven knows that there are times when I seem to have a foot
firmly planted there!
Well, besides biking, studying, contacting, tracting, eating,
teaching, going to bed and getting back up to do it again there is not
much going on here. Each day looks pretty much the same on paper, but
turns out completely different in real life. I love seeing the little
adventures that are thrown my way.
Thank you again for all of the letters that you diligently send. I
absolutely love them all. I love you too! Be safe and be strong.
Love, Sis. Amy Reece
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