Elder Cullen bought a sponge from Amazon. He read all the negative reviews. Some ridiculed that sponge saying that it was way too skinny and not worth buying. Elder Cullen read the positive reviews and decided to buy the sponge anyway. Sure enough it came super skinny.
However, after opening the package and imersing it in the water, the sponge began to GROW and became a wonderful Sponge! Those negative people hadn't even OPENED the vacuumed package!!!
So many times when I try to share the Book of Mormon with my friends I feel like they have heard things that make them feel it would be a worthless skinny "sponge" but I promise that if you read it and have an open mind as you read, you will find that it is FULL of knowledge and truth and that it will cause your life to be filled with joy and peace.
Don't bother with the negative reports of people who haven't even USED the product. Read the Book of Mormon today and start feeling the joy.
Monday, January 6, 2025
Abraham Lincoln
Elder Cullen and I went on a romantic get a way to the Land of Lincoln. I was very impressed by the weight of negativity Lincoln was pounded with. Evil and darkness tried to crush his soul. He was accused of doing TOO MUCH and NOT ENOUGH! He was working with millions of people who insisted on slavery, despised it, felt the union should be preserved but not slavery, and the union should be preserved but include slavery, and people who felt the union wasn't work preserving. At the cost of a lot of blood and blame he perservered to push that slavery should NOT persist or be allowed in any more states and work towards elemination in all other states. Because he persevered and did not let the social media of his time make him give up, we now are still a UNION and slavery was abolished. I can only imagine how much better off we would be if he had been allowed to live and accomplish his design for our country. I am grateful for his sacrifice. The country was not ready for his efforts, hence the civil war, but we still benefit from his efforts today.
There and Back Again: Week 10
As you can see, these homes are not built for big people!
Elder Cullen and I were blessed with an additional calling this week. We've been assigned to be Site Coordinators for the William and Caroline Weeks Home and the Elizabeth and William Jones Stone Pavillion. This means we are responsible for shoveling the snow from the sidewalks and stairs, keeping the home clean inside and making sure the site missionaries fill out the visitor forms and have what they need.
This job has added some extra hours to our week and extra blessings!
The stairs to the basement/kitchen are SO narrow that my shoulders touch both walls when I use the stairs and the I can barely squeeze past the turn due to the wall bulging out near the bottom. Elder Cullen didn't even try. I cleaned the basement myself while he cleaned upstairs.
It was wonderous to look at the architecual plans and think, "This is where Joseph and William Weeks designed the Beautiful Nauvoo Temple! How did they do THIS without modern tools, electricity, hydraulic power, etc?" The saints built this sacred edifice at great sacrifice. They were finishing it AS the mobs who had attacked and destroyed many of their homes and killed many people, threatened to come do it again if they didn't leave the country. Up until the last minute they, at the risk of their very lives, stayed to receive their covenants of eternal families before fleeing from the country to find a place where they could be free to govern themselves according to their beliefs.
The temple was rebuilt to the same plans and design about 10 years ago. (The mobs had burned it out) I can feel the sacredness and power of this house of God. Find a temple near you and just go and touch it. You will also feel it is a sacred place.
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