What is up?!
Well this week had been hard! This whole month has been
pretty hard for the Dublin Zone, but we love it! We love the fire. We love being
refined. We feel invigorated and excited for the work.
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| Elder Wilson + Elder Crowe |
Just so you know I am serving with a future Apostle. Elder Wilson
is an absolute legend. The spiritual experiences we have had together are
incredible. He is a great man full of the spirit. We are trying to be
sanctified and consecrated. We were walking down the street GQing the other day,
and we stopped this man. After talking with us, he told us we were "Mighty
men full of Light", so we say that to each other all the time now. We are
learning how to speak by the power of the Holy ghost every day. It is amazing
to feel the Lord working through us. Though we are imperfect (well I am, he's
pretty close to exaltation) the Lord still uses us in incredible ways.
I got to give a talk yesterday in sacrament. President
Donaldson gave a talk also and it was a really spiritual sacrament meeting. Not
to toot my own horn.
Our investigators are having a hard time progressing at the
moment. Satan is a real butt sometimes! But we are working hard and seeing
miracles all around us.
We are flying to Edinburgh tomorrow for a meeting
with all the leadership, so it should be good. I am excited to be in Scotland
for a bit. I do miss Scotland a lot. I am serving in the greatest mission in
the world. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. What a
dream to be serving the King of kings here!!
We all make sacrifices in our lives. We sacrifice for
school, work, family, etc. We sacrifice the things we like for the things that
matter most. We sacrifice sports to worship our Heavenly Father on the Sabbath;
we sacrifice money and time and family to come on missions for 2 years; we
sacrifice comforts to move where the Lord needs us. We are a sacrificial
people. We recognize there is power in our sacrifices, but we also recognize
that the greatest act of love ever performed was sacrifice. The Saviour performed
the greatest act of love the world, universe, eternities has ever known. The
only pure and perfect Man sacrificed ALL so that we could receive ALL. What an
act of love.
The essence of the gospel is love. This love is what moves
us to act. It is not glory, honor, fear, or any other temporal thing which
entices us to do what we do. It is love in it's purest form. When we share our
testimonies and love with others, we Latter-Day Saints must realize that we are
not doing anything of ourselves. We are simply inviting others to partake of
the love that Christ has already offered them. Let us think of others more than
we think of ourselves. Let us not be preoccupied with the things of this world
that distract us from sharing this message and fulfilling our duties to Him who
has saved us. Let us move forward with a steadfastness in Christ. Let us
remember always that until we sacrifice, until we walk to Gethsemane and back,
until we lift the hands that hang down, until we stand as a witness in all
times and places, until we are willing to share, we will never understand the
fullness of joy that comes through Christ. It is not enough to believe with our
heads; we must know in our hearts.
"If you cannot endure persecution, you cannot
endure the glory of the Celestial Kingdom." -Joseph Smith
Love
Elder Crowe
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| A popped tire!! |
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| Changing the tire |
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