MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
WEll I want you all to know that I am thinking about you and I am so excited to hear about how everyone is doing!! OVER THE PHONE!!
So details about calling. You guys will be calling the chapel that is right next to my house, which is actually an old chapel from the time of my Mission President. Also infested with cockroaches. :) Not my favorite thing but I am adjusting and I'll send a picture next week (sorry it's always next week, but this week is really because I can't find my cable to connect to the computer, but it will show up). But talking about cleaning, which we are not but I would like to share with all of you, Monday cleaning stinks because the house/old chapel is big and the bathrooms are huge.
We have all three hours of church here on Christmas. Is that normal? Don't know.
I have been thinking about this email and how it will be the CHRISTMAS EMAIL.
In the Bible, Luke 2: 19,50-51 talks about how Mary ´kept these things in her heart´. It says it after the sheperds visit and when he was 12 and was teaching in the temple and they went back to get him. I love that it says that. Because she was a wise woman, she was the most blessed above all women. She knew the scriptures, she knew that she was the mother of the Only Begotten of the Father and all that entailed. She knew that an ultimate and everlasting sacrifice had to be made. She knew everything and she kept the moments in her Heart when our Heavenly Father was teaching her. He knew what she needed and how she needed to grow. That everlasting and ultimate sacrifice makes all the difference for us. What will we sacrifice? What are we willing to give up so that WE TOO can live with God one day? Because he has set the standard, the standard DOES NOT CHANGE. For any of us. We are the ones that have to choose and have to change our desires, habits, and our mistakes. It is only through him that we will overcome. To be a disciple of Christ we have to DO! in Doctrine and Covenants 41:5 it explains exactly what a disciple is. As we learn and apply, the Lord sees our desires and he will reveal line upon line for each one of us more and more light. But when we stop doing what we need to do, he can not show us. He will never force us. He has so much respect for our agency that he waits for us to come back to him and that coming back always includes repentance. WHAT A BLESSING. Because of all the Savior did, we really can be clean of ANYTHING we have done wrong. Literally anything. He will forgive us as we seek and work and pray and with time prove to him our change of heart. I am so eteranlly grateful for my Savior. I know Christ lives, that he will lead me by the hand as I trust in him. I know that he will judge me one day, before I can enter the Father's presence. In Moroni 7:48 there is a phrase I love. I am translating it from Portuguese so its more or less this, ´And when he comes, we will see him, because we will be like he is´. We can only be like he is if we repent!! If we use the opportunity he has given us to be better people. Because God Will NOT be mocked. My inviation to each of us is that we can think, as individuals, in our families and extended families about what we need to change BECAUSE Christ lives. And because he loves us. God's angels are around us, and as we trust in him, we will see what we need to do. But we have to be the first to act. We have to use our faith. It might be small things, it might be big, but please let us help each other, trust in the lord, forgive each other. See the bright and shining moments that await us, because it's the moments that carry us through and in the moments that the Lord teaches us. If we turn our back on the Lord he can not teach us. He is trying, ever so trying. I know we can be an eternal family, but we have to change, we have to be better because this won't cut it. God doesn't need us to be perfect yet, one day yes, but not yet, but we have to be improving. I love you all. I pray for you all daily and I wish I could be there with you all. BUT as hard as this is, I wouldn't give it up for the world. I love you all
Love,
Sister Taylor
Kat
Auntie Kat
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