Sanctification through the Lord - Week 95

July 10th, 2018


Hey everyone!

Well transfers happened and now i can officially say im in my last area of my mission with my last companion. Things have been a blast and im grateful that I still got some time left to give it all I got. the only thing I cant understand is why people keep telling me that Im going home soon.. I mean in theory when your time is up your supposed to be willingly submitting and leaving, but I have a feeling its going to have to be a dragging process to get me to actually do whats necessary to send me home.... haha

This week was a pretty good week for us. There were alot of people that we have been working with that we have been trying to really help them keep their commitments to read and pray so that they can get their answers to know whether the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored. 

We taught the first discussion to three new people yesterday in Garden Valley which is awesome! So hopefully we can keep that going and maybe see some baptisms in the branch up there in the near future. 

Our fourth of July we had a pretty good time and we went to a BBQ with a part member family and got to meet some other non member families. After that we went with some members and played alittle volleyball with some of their non member friends so we got to meet alot of new people this week. 

My thought for the week comes from a scripture in Alma chapter 13:10-12

"10 Now, as I said concerning the holy order, or this high priesthood, there were many who were ordained and became high priests of God; and it was on account of their exceeding faith and repentance, and their righteousness before God, they choosing to repent and work righteousness rather than to perish;

11 Therefore they were called after this holy order, and were sanctified, and their garments were washed white through the blood of the Lamb.

12 Now they, after being sanctified by the Holy Ghost, having their garments made white, being pure and spotless before God, could not look upon sin save it were with abhorrence; and there were many, exceedingly great many, who were made pure and entered into the rest of the Lord their God."

The word sanctification is a very powerful word Elder D. Todd Christopherson said:

"To be sanctified through the blood of Christ is to become clean, pure, and holy. If justification removes the punishment for past sin, then sanctification removes the stain or effects of sin. The Prophet Joseph Smith testified:

“And this is the gospel, the glad tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us—

“That he came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear [justify] the sins of the world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness” (D&C 76:40–41)."

Sanctification is what comes to us when we repent and allow the holy spirit to come into our lives and change our hearts and minds. May we continue to repent and exercise faith in the Lord.