Howdy missionaries!
39 Now Alma said unto him: Will ye deny again that there is a God, and also deny the Christ? For behold, I say unto you, I know there is a God, and also that Christ shall come.
40 And now what evidence have ye that there is no aGod, or that Christ cometh not? I say unto you that ye have none, save it be your word only.
41 But, behold, I have all things as a atestimony that these things are true; and ye also have all things as a testimony unto you that they are true;
I was reading the Come Follow Me stuff for this week in Job and the prompt question was: What are my reasons for remaining faithful? It made me think: what are Job's reasons? He testifies about how the people around him--and even he, himself--can easily turn on their testimonies. However, Nature and things around us are constant in their testifying of Christ.
JOB 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every aliving thing, and the bbreath of all mankind.
I paused in my study and looked out at the trees, saw evidence of the breeze, the light speckling through the canopy...and felt more steady. Somehow, they do. Just in their existence.
I loved that you closed your email with a scripture, Drew. It was a powerful one. I could feel your light. It reminded me of the music video that Maia picked for the devotional the morning before Lily left:
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Lily and I both thought this video really showed how missionary work is shining your light--like their dancing, living the Gospel joyfully--and others have agency to choose to come, choose to reject, choose to listen for a moment then turn away,...choose. And we can keep on dancing.
I love you both so much and miss you. I know you will be happier moving forward with this stage of life than staying here at home, so it is a bittersweet missing. I am happy for you. Happy for Canada and Australia and the light that you will shine there as your draw closer to God, shine your love of Him, shine your love of those around you.t
Penelope is currently trying out different markers on the calculator (not -er) across from me (had to try spelling that a couple times before I got it right, lol!). Eli is rocking the spiky hair still...and spiky personality. Yikes. I really hope we all survive until he transitions out of this phase! I think I've listened to more death threats and exclamations of hatred towards me in the past week than I have for a few years put together :S.
Xai and Liesl built fairy houses in the yard.
We discovered this morning that the mini-kitten is still alive and present and currently living underneath the air conditioning unit. We also found a rogue chicken who has been trying to live outside the coop...for over two weeks! Apparently it has a favorite tree it roost in right next to the house. It's super skittish but brings our count up to 21, which we thought was down to 20 for quite some time now. Crazy.
The count for high schoolers at the Federal Hocking football team practice was down to three last night. Hyrum is hanging in there. Piper was one of three girls on the high school cross track team. He sent home a form of his policy...that there are minimum acceptable excuses and that he will kick people off the team if they don't abide by all the rules. Hmmmm...with as heavily as he's been recruiting, we're not sure that's going to be the case. Maia showed up for one practice but he pushed her a little hard and she decided not to do it anymore.
Dad is still working on fixing up his motorcycle using ingenious ways. I think he could use some prayers.
God bless you both,
Mom
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