4-25-11

Hey Family!

Happy Easter to you too! I realized as I was studying on Saturday morning that I never have read all the way through the resurrection story in the Bible, so on Saturday, I did it! And I read it using Jesus the Christ as well. What a powerful story. It's so neat that Mary goes to the tomb and there's nothing but an angel who tells her "Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen..."

How beautiful those words, no? Unfortunately it seems Mary didn't understand what the angel had said, says James E. Talmage. But to the rest, those must have been such comforting words. Had Jesus Christ simply lied to rest for all eternity it would have shown one of two things.

1. He failed to complete the atonement

2. He was just a good man.

But he rose again, and He conquered death for all of us. It was a really great Easter Day.

Alisalin, our newest investigator, loves church! She told me last night on the phone that she knows the Book of Mormon to be true and that she knows Joseph Smith to have been a prophet. We are going to shoot for the 7th of May for her baptismal date. She's such a great lady, she has literally just been waiting for this opportunity, I don't know how she wasn't found before.

With Abraham and Isaac you have to remember that everything back then was in a similitude of the Only Begotten of the Father. God was showing Abraham what it takes to be able to freely give up your own son. So that Abraham could understand what the Father has to go through. As we learn in the Book of Mormon, the people on that side of the earth were very incredulous, very wicked, they needed the law of moses to be so rigid because they couldn't figure it out any other way, and they still messed up a lot! But, since Christ has left the Holy Ghost with us, we have a "spirit of the law" type of situation in our lives which is a lot easier to live with and a lot less animal killing. PETA is happy about that I think.

The cars sound awesome! Except the Mustang, Convertible? Is it pink, too? Converts are girls cars hahaha. We live up the street from a BMW dealer, so we accidentally walk through quite often.

Hopefully Megg will be well, I'll be praying.