Hey guys!!
So this week on Friday me and Elder Gil had exchanges. I served for 24 hours with the District Leader. We had a few very interesting thoughts and conversations we shared with one another. One of which I will try to briefly recreate here.
So for Companionship studies he started out with "Christmas is next week. What are you going to get Jesus for His birthday?" We started comparing notes a lot back and forth, discussing in depth what we will get Jesus for His birthday. 2 Nephi 2:27 states " Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself." So what do we really have to give? "all things are given them" so everything is a gift unto us. So we cant really give anything to Christ because its all His anyways. But the first of that verse also says "men are free to choose" so we have our agency. The only thing that we really own. So, this Christmas I exhort you all to keep this in mind. Not only remember Christ, or the "true meaning of Christmas" as everyone says, but to remember that the only thing you have to give Him is your agency, so do it. "Choose liberty and eternal life" choose to honor Christ and do the things you know He wants you to do. Choose to love Him and in doing so keep His commandments as He illustrates in John 14:15. I hope that you all have a very wonderful Christmas and that you all really will remember Christ and all He has done and what that means to you.
This is the degrees on Christmas day!
Thank you so much for all the support!
Love,
So this week on Friday me and Elder Gil had exchanges. I served for 24 hours with the District Leader. We had a few very interesting thoughts and conversations we shared with one another. One of which I will try to briefly recreate here.
So for Companionship studies he started out with "Christmas is next week. What are you going to get Jesus for His birthday?" We started comparing notes a lot back and forth, discussing in depth what we will get Jesus for His birthday. 2 Nephi 2:27 states " Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself." So what do we really have to give? "all things are given them" so everything is a gift unto us. So we cant really give anything to Christ because its all His anyways. But the first of that verse also says "men are free to choose" so we have our agency. The only thing that we really own. So, this Christmas I exhort you all to keep this in mind. Not only remember Christ, or the "true meaning of Christmas" as everyone says, but to remember that the only thing you have to give Him is your agency, so do it. "Choose liberty and eternal life" choose to honor Christ and do the things you know He wants you to do. Choose to love Him and in doing so keep His commandments as He illustrates in John 14:15. I hope that you all have a very wonderful Christmas and that you all really will remember Christ and all He has done and what that means to you.
This is the degrees on Christmas day!
Thank you so much for all the support!
Love,
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