Oh How Time Flies!

Hello everyone, 

This week has been amazing and has just seemed to fly by! We haven't had the opportunity to have so many lessons but instead we have done quite a bit of finding in different places. We are excited to say that we have found some great people to talk to! 

We had a great lesson with our friend Klaus and got to teach about temple work. We showed him Family Search and he thought it was so fascinating! We loved meeting with him,  he is the coolest! Another person that we met with this week is called Samson. We knocked on his door one evening after really hoping to find someone and there he was.  He has started believing in the Gospel because of the way that world is becoming. He sees things being fulfilled and wants to understand it from another perspective. We look forward to seeing him again this week! 

This week we also got to do some service where we removed this massive block of concrete from the ground! That was amazing and really made us feel strong after we saw how big it was. Look at the pictures for the size of it! 

Between the stone and the week we have come to think of something... As we were done with the stone we looked back on our comments in the beginning and they were quite negative! We had kept saying that we would not be able to lift the stone and that we should give up! Even halfway through we thought about stopping. This week I have had the honor of studying diligence. I realize that without diligence this project would have ended without success and we wouldn't have been able to help this old lady out! Diligence is necessary for us to overcome our own problems and challenges. We need to serve when we are tired and keep going even though everything around us tells us not to! We must work in all diligence without expecting praise from the world.

In the Song "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" this same man keeps going through these times when he feels as if he should give up in his service or that he shouldn't help. Throughout it all he still helps this man that he believes he does not know! The last thing that the so-called stranger asks the man to do for him is to die for him! The song describes that the flesh denied this but that the spirit joyfully said it would! After the man had finished his answer the stranger disappeared and before him stood the Savior! The Savior applauds him for his service towards this stranger and says that these services were unto Him.

Christ really did the unthinkable! He died for us so that we could come back to the Father! He did everything required of him. He fulfilled the promise given since the beginning of time. We are rewarded through him and his example! Following Christ is everything! 

Thank you everyone for reading my email! We are very thankful for your prayers and I hope you have a great week! 

Love,

Elder Elias Lines