It's weird to think that in Arkansas it's snowy and icy and cold
because it's been such a mild, nice, 50-degree February this month in Utah.
We're getting a lot of rain so we'll have something to drink out here during the
summer. That's good. If the rain would go away it'd be nice frisbee weather
I went on exchanges this week with Elder Miller last week in the Little
Cottonwood stake. It was fun to go back and see the people that I used to work
with. Elder Hodge and Miller are working with a lot of the people that I was
trying to get in with a year ago. One of the most fun things was randomly
running into an inactive we were working with who was returning to church and is
going to the temple to get her endowments out this month!
Also went on exchanges with Elder Wilson... felt prompted to knock a door
we thought would be members, but saw cigarettes in the pot outside. They invited
us right in and said they're good friends with our ward mission leader and were
coming to church Sunday. They actually came... and we found out to everyone's
surprise that he's not a member. There are so many dry mormons out here. We'll
be teaching them the stop smoking program on Thursday and set a baptism date
with him. We reported seven with a baptism date last week. It's so busy right
now!
So things are going well!
Elder Chandler
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thought: unignorable
In Elders quorum last week in one of our wards (Shawn Bradley is in the
ward and in this elders quorum) (Sister Burton the general relief society
president is also in our area) one of the elders made a cool comment about our
church being unignorable. What a cool thought to me!
Although I don't exactly have a lot of access to the news, there's one
thing about the gay rights activity going on that has always fascinated me. The
gay population has always been there, and it's always sat at about the same
percent of the population. Why didn't this issue surface years ago? And yet here
it is, now, and everyone at this point is forced to take one side or the other
in an emotionally-charged, divisive, overdue subject matter that's plastered all
over the media in ugly colors.
To me, the church is going to have to go through the same "refiners fire".
Whether the Book of Mormon is what it claims to be is going to be the center of
speculation, of media attention, of emotion. Here over 200 years since its
publication though, we're running on just as much about scientific evidence as
we've gathered about the hormones that cause homosexuality - we're trying to put
together a 1000 piece puzzle with 2 or 3 pieces in both cases. People will place
and spin those couple pieces over and over, but in the end the evidence can
never be conclusive. Just as in homosexuality, the church debate will be
centered on, not the issue itself, but the conflicting and man-made puzzle
pieces created to fill in the gaps.
And everyone will be polarized to one side of the issue. And everyone must
decide to find out for themselves whether the Book of Mormon is what it claims
to be, by the only source they can truly find out - by asking God Himself. And
it is true!--
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