03/01/10

Hello,

Sorry if my e-mail didn't get out to everyone last week. I typed fast and didn't check to see if I typed everyone's e-mail in correctly. When I looked at my e-mail today it showed that there were a few typos...Sorry again. In the future if you do get an e-mail from me please check to see if there are typos in the other e-mail addresses and if there are please forward my e-mail to others. Thanks

We were supposed to have Zone Conference tomorrow but we got a call this morning from our District Leader who told us that President Cutler went into the hospital last night for a herniatied disc. He's in a lot of pain so we're all praying that he'll be able to recover soon.

This past week we've met a lot of people who are troubled about all of the calamaties that are happening around the world. We've met people who have sincere concerns and feel that God doesn't care or love them because of all of the bad things. This is why I love the gospel so much. It's the only thing that can bring peace and comfort into our lives even with all of the bad around us.

Every Wednesday we have District Meeting with the missionries close to our area (usually consisting of four different companionships). This past week we talked about the Book of Mormon. We read in Preach My Gospel which is also great. When Elder Bednar was hear he told us that the leaders of our chusrch didn't want us to memorize Preach My Gospel but that they wanted us to become Preach My Gospel so that's been nice to refocus and try to improve myself.

In Preach My Gospel there's a part about the Book Of Mormon where it says that it is the most correct of any book on the earth )Joseph Smith). It also tells us that the Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit is our most powerful tool for conversion. Before our training I forgot about the importance of the Book of Mormon. I use it but I also get excited about the other standard works. It's been a little difficult for me to find a balance for all of them but this training we had really helped.

Our District Leader asked us to think of questions that we've either been asked before or have wondered for ourselves. He wrote about 15 of them on the board and then we split up into groups (each companionship with a question) and we did role plays for diffrent situations where those questions would be asked by people we meet.

There were questions/concerns like: What is the purpose of life?
Does God know me? Why do I need to get married? Why does God allow suffering to occur? Why do I need to go to church? Why do I need religion? How am I sinning if I'm happy? Why do we need more than the Bible? Why do I need to pray? Is there life after death? I've already been baptised etc..

I hadn't known this before but all of these questions/concerns and many more like it were and can be found in the Book of Mormon. In Preach My Gospel under the Book Of Mormon section there's a part where it says the Book of Mormon can answer questions of the soul. My testimony of the Book of Mormon continues to grow and it is for our day. I'm so grateful for the prophets before us who took time to write about the their experiences so that we could find strength to know of the things we can do. It's really helped Sister Boyd and I teach more effectively as missionaries and be better equipped to serve the people here.

I love the Book of Mormon.

Love you Guys,

Sister Green