Hello everyone!!
As I'm writing this email, I'm in a member's furnace room waiting out a tornado. (it's Sunday, so if I've sent this, it means I lived)
anyways, this week was a very good week!! Dale, the person we have been teaching, was baptized this Saturday! everything went perfectly, he and his fiancè will be getting married at the end of July. I'm not sure if I will still be in Cove for it, but hopefully in a year I'll be able to come back to be at their sealing :)
this past Thursday we had our last interviews with president Whitney :( I'm gonna miss him, but I'm super excited to meet my new mission president at the beginning of July, President Chapman!!!
PATTERNS OF LIGHT
there is this one video on the gospel media app of Elder Bednars series of videos called 'patterns of light', well actually all three of the videos in this series are amazing. he talks about the light of christ, which is one of my favorite things to talk about. he explains how in a dark room, when you light a match or turn on a light the darkness can never rule out the light. we ALL have the light of Christ in us. every single person is born with it. as we serve others, help those who might need an extra hand, exercise our faith in Him, our light grows and becomes brighter and brighter. when you are doing the things Jesus would do your light radiates, and people around you notice it, whether they tell you or not. no amount of evil or darkness can overrule your light of Christ within you when you are actively seeking and striving to have it be shining.
in another one of the videos he talks about the patterns of revelation. he compares revelation to three things, the first is a light switch. sometimes we receive answers in a very dramatic and very abrupt known way, like when you turn on the light and it becomes light and bright very quickly. it's clear. that way of revelation is not as common but it does still happen.
the second way is compared to a sunrise, you can see the light, but it comes slow, not all at once. it's very gradual, you can discern the light but not all at once. this way is a little more common.
third, he compares it to a foggy day. you know it's light outside but it's so blurry and unknown, you can only see a small bit ahead of you. but there's enough just to take a few steps, to keep on going forward towards more light.
doctrine and covenants 50:24
"That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day."
*update on the tornado*
no one was seriously injured just a few wrecked houses, I think around 200 hahah but everyone is safe :)
well I hope you all have a great week!! love you all!!
love, sister Thorpe
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