Welllllll another week...another month gone!! this week nothing too crazy happened.
Well i guess we are still alive haha there was one point that that was questionable last week.
Some members gave a us a ride to Lexington--about a 45 minute drive- but is still our area. We then had a nice dinner with one of our recent converts. But on the way home it was about 8:45 and we were just flying down some farm road and well lets just say that the driver isn't the youngest and well 8 o'clock was his bed time... he didn't really care for stop signs... o well we lived!
But we had some good weather this week---for half of it. We had weather in the 70s and then to below zero with snow and thunderstorms!!! only in Oklahoma... it is funny when we talk to people why they live in Oklahoma a good majority of them say I don't know. This place has earthquakes tornado's, hailstorms, lightning-blizzard and extreme heat summer... but the people here are the best! So that is ok I can live with that, since all we do is talk to people, but as far as living here.... yeah i dont know about that one haha.
We found an interesting investigator this week his name is Chris and he is from Sandy, Utah !! But the way that we found his is pretty good... We were tracting and we heard this house playing some hard rock and roll so we knocked on the door.. someone yelled, "its the mormons!!!!!" and then we knocked again and Chris answered. We asked him if he was rocking out in there and it took 3 times saying it before he was able to hear what we were saying... but when his hearing finally adjusted we were able to talk to him and then we were able to pray.. it was supper cool we told him that we will have to hear his band some time, then he said that they were all together and we could listen to them.... ok... so we went into the house and it smelt like....... yeah and we went into a room and they had lights and a whole bunch of band stuff. Well they played a song called valley of the souls...they were...loud and screaming, after the song we said well done and got out of their as fast as we could!!
anyways we OF COURSE didn't have church this week! so we had a nice 3 hour study i read alot about LAW and found this talk from Spencer W. Kimball on obedience
“To obey! To hearken! What a difficult requirement! Often we hear: ‘Nobody can tell me what clothes to wear, what I shall eat or drink. No one can outline my Sabbaths, appropriate my earnings, nor in any way limit my personal freedoms! I do as I please! I give no blind obedience!’
“Blind obedience! How little they understand! …
“When men speak of all faith and all obedience as blind, are they not covering their own weaknesses? Are they not seeking an alibi to justify their own failure to hearken?
“A man obeys strictly the income tax law and pays fully and before due date his property taxes but justifies himself in disregarding the law of the Sabbath or the payment of tithes on time, if at all. In the one case he may suffer only deprivation of freedom or resources or lose his home or personal property, but in the other he opens doors to the loss of a soul. The spiritual as truly brings penalties as the temporal, the principal difference is the swiftness of punishment, the Lord being so long-suffering.
“One would hardly call the first blind obedience, yet he sometimes regards the spiritual commands as such.
“Is it blind obedience when the student pays his tuition, reads his text assignments, attends classes, and thus qualifies for his eventual degrees? Perhaps he himself might set different and easier standards for graduation, but he obeys every requirement of the catalog whether or not he understands its total implication.
“Is it blind obedience when one regards the sign ‘High Voltage—Keep Away’ or is it the obedience of faith in the judgment of experts who know the hazard?
“Is it blind obedience when the air traveler fastens his seat belt as that sign flashes or is it confidence in the experience and wisdom of those who know more of hazards and dangers?
“Is it blind obedience when the little child gleefully jumps from the table into the strong arms of its smiling father, or is this implicit trust in a loving parent who feels sure of his catch and who loves the child better than life itself?
“Is it blind obedience when an afflicted one takes vile-tasting medicine prescribed by his physician or yields his own precious body to the scalpel of the surgeon or is this the obedience of faith in one in whom confidence may safely be imposed? …
“Is it then blind obedience when we, with our limited vision, elementary knowledge, selfish desires, ulterior motives, and carnal urges, accept and follow the guidance and obey the commands of our loving Father who begot us, created a world for us, loves us, and has planned a constructive program for us, wholly without ulterior motive, whose greatest joy and glory is to ‘bring to pass the immortality and eternal life’ of all his children?”
I really loved this, God gives us commandments and laws to help us and in the end to exalt us! But how do we usually look at those commands?? Well in john 8:31-32...if we are obedient then we are disciples, then we will receive truth then we will be made free. Sound like a good deal to me.
As missionaries we are given a BOOK of extra commandments that we need to follow! with consequences if we don't follow...so why be a missionary??!! Because there is a book a blessings that comes too! and it is fun talking to random people about what you believe!! but yeah that is what happend in the BIG PURCELL OK
ELDER FINLINSON
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