Sunday evening there was a youth fireside about dating... we went by at the
end to get refreshments. It turned out to be a tri-stake meeting with the Little
Cottonwood, Parkway, and South stakes. I knew EVERYONE hahahaha it was awesome.
We're going to get a bi-stake youth activity going on with Mobsters and
Missionaries to get more non-members to. It should be awesome.
We're still teaching a ton. And working with a ton of people. It's kind of
a sad vicious cycle though because we put a lot of people on baptism date, then
their baptism dates get close and they fall off, but we find more in between. At
least our teaching pool is huge so we'll have a great couple months coming
up.
Elder Chandler
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thought: repentance and covenant making
I've been pondering repentance a lot lately, especially the relationship
and transfer of debt between Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and ourselves.
Sometimes I think I'm tricked when thinking about repentance into thinking
repentance is us transferring the weight of our sins onto Christ. That it's a
one-way transfer of burden, because Christ suffered for us anyways. As I've been
thinking about it before I think I understand better that repentance itself is a
covenant, a two-way promise. Christ takes the burdens of our sins off of us, and
we take upon ourselves a burden.
It's interesting to me that, especially in the D&C, it seems the burden
that Christ puts on us as our term is actually to go out and do missionary work.
I know I've felt the power of the Atonement more as I've gone out and borne
testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. I've never felt better about
myself, my world, and God!
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