Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Matters of Belonging 9.18.19

TMM Blog 9.18.19

This morning in seminary we were continuing teaching the Sermon on the Mount: The Higher Law in Matthew 5:17-48. One of our wonderful young men, wide-eyed, asked if that (verses 27-28) meant that having bad thoughts was the same as adultery. We explained that we all have bad thoughts enter our minds, but that the principle is “If we choose to ENTERTAIN lustful thoughts or desires, it is like committing adultery in our hearts.” He is a senior, but he had never considered this truth. The rest of the lesson was about how to avoid entertaining lustful thoughts and desires. They were all with us at that point! I love having the students search the scriptures and write the principles.

I woke up at 3:30 (one of my usual times every night) to find that we had no water! We always have plenty of drinking water from bottles or the water station down the street, BUT we were horrified to have no hand-washing (even with sanitizer…), toilet-flushing, or showers. We take the simple things for granted, huh? We had water again about noon—we would NOT make very good pioneers!

We went to two baptisms on Saturday. One was the oldest daughter of a family that was previously baptized. She said said she would never be baptized. Somehow, though, the joy of her mother and the other children enticed her to keep listening to the missionaries and attending church meetings. The picture shows her with some of our wonderful young women (seminary students). Check out the picture and see if you can tell how she changed her mind and entered the waters of baptism:


The second picture is Veronica, who had been introduced to the gospel before she moved from California. She quickly prepared herself for baptism when the missionaries found her. She bore testimony at her baptism. There is such joy in finding Christ!


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