Hey everyone! Life is going great here in Honduras! I can´t believe how time flies. I love being here and am learning so much!
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This week we had boundry changes in the ward, so my companion and I went to a new place called travesia. It is about 20 minutes from puerto on bus. It was pretty cool. It is basically a town with a high population of african americans. It´s definatly got a different culture, and many of the people there speak Spanish, as well as a native dielect called garifuna. We were able to find some cool people, and how to return this week.
Other then that were are continuing to work hard. This week I have really been greateful for Jesus Christ and the Atonement.
I have been thinking alot lately about the plan of Happiness and the central piece that Jesus Christ plays in that plan. In 3 Nephi 27:19-20 Jesus Christ tought,
"And no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom..."
In other words, as Christ has tought us, if we are not perfect as he and his father are perfect, or clean as him and his father are clean, we can not enter into there kingdom. Yet, because God loves us, he sent his son Jesus Christ (John 3:16). And Christ continues,
"...therefore nothing entereth into his rest save it be those who have washed their garments in my blood, becuase of their faith, and the repentance of all their sins, and their faithfulness unto the end. Now this is the commandment: Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless (clean) before me at the last day."
What a blessing! Through Christ, even though we are not perfect yet, we can repent, we can change, and we can still be made clean. Thanks to Christ we are given a time to prepare. I solemnly testify that this Change, Repentance is possible through christ! Personly, I have many weaknesses, I am not perfect, I am far from it. But thanks to my savior and redeamer, our brother Jesus Christ I know that I can repent. I can Change, and over time my weaknesses can be made strenghts. (Ether 12:27).
God loves us! Who knows what will make us happy, and he knows wickedness never was happiness (Alma 41:10). For this reason he sent his son and has called the world to repentance. It is the blessing he has given us which is the only true way to happiness.
In the Book of Mormon the prophet Alma was teaching of Jesus Christ and this gift he has offered it.
"Yea, I say unto you come and fear not, and lay aside every sin, which easily doth beset you, which doth bind you down to destruction, yea, come and go forth, and show unto your God that ye are willing to repent (Change) of your sins and enter into a covenant with him to keep his commandments, and witness it unto him this day by going into the waters of babtism (Alma 7:15)
And then comes the blessing in verse 16, "And whosever doeth this, and keepeth the commandments of God from thenceforth... he shall have eternal life."
This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ! This is the plan of Happiness our Father in Heavan has for us! I testify of Him! I testify of his son Jesus Christ, he payed for our sins, to offer us the gift of Repentance (Change)! With all the love of my heart I invite each of you, along with myself, with the prophet Alma of the Book of mormon to repent! To change!
I love you all!
Elder Trenton Horace Harmon
Letters
Mission Honduras San Pedro Sula Oeste
12 calle, Avenida Circunvalación,
S.O. Edificio Yude Canahuati,
3 Nivel, Oficina #4
San Pero Sula, Cortés, Honduras, C.A.
Packages
Mission Honduras San Pedro Sula Oeste
Apartado Postal 1956
San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras, C.A.
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