One Simple Lesson

Hey Everyone!!

I hope that this week was a great week for all of you. I really do. I am always praying for each one of you and I know that the Lord has special plans for all of you. I hope that you can feel my love and concern and that this year has gone by fast for you because it has not been the fastest for me :) But thats a good thing. You have to take advantage of every second.

Miracle:

This week I didnt have any really incredible experiences or funny things or crazy stories, but I learned something more clearly than I had ever learned before. I have been a little stressed lately with our progress and some little complications that we have had in our area and small things like that. And I have been trying hard not to get stressed and continue and I just wanted to feel greater peace. As I was praying and studying, the thought came to mind that it all starts with repentance. With having a pure heart before Christ. So the past couple of weeks, I have been trying to truly repent and change and this week I really did see a personal miracle. I felt more peace these past three days than in any other days in my life. I felt right and worthy before God. I could feel the love of God for me and felt that He really did forgive me, even of some things that I had done way in the past. I learned an enormous lesson this week. I learned in a new way that, yes all of this matters. It is important that we are leaders and trying and teaching and helping people to accept the Gospel but, it is also important, and we will receive blessings for living the simple truths. The primary answers. We can, and will be blessed for reading the scriptures, and praying and going to church on Sunday. Its was pretty great to remember that even when it is all complicated, we can be happy that we are, as Presidente Eyring puts it, living the simple commandments.

I love this simple and pure Gospel and I invite each one of you to make things more simple and focus on repentance and faith and the pure and perfect teaching of Jesus Christ. He loves you, and will bless you. Believe in this eternal truth. I know that God lives and loves us. I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is His restored church and that Presidente Nelson is our prophet and leader here on the earth.

Love you all!!
Elder Allen