Well we did talk about something pretty cool Sunday (or one of these days and I actually enjoyed it). We talked about the torment of the soul due to your sins and other stuff. I got thinking and it was super cool. I was thinking what if we could all see all the sins in our life at the same time, how would we feel? We talked about that and I started wondering how does it feel to have a soul that has all this guilt? When I got to thinking I found out what it felt like. Its like a sadness and a dull pain that just won't go away until you do something to fix it. Its a pretty terrible feeling that you really can't get rid of if you don't change. I believe that missionaries feel this a lot on the mission just because they know all of their sins or they just feel like they aren't doing all they can so the sins and the errors of the people here come upon them because they aren't giving it their all.
Now just think of how much worse you will feel when you're in front of God and you're being judged for your works here on this world. Man that will feel even worse and the only thing you can do is ask to leave His presence.
But here and now we have the chance to change it and be clean or try to be as clean as we possibly can. But I think that the thing that causes the most pain isn't the sins, well at least for me, its the guilt of the things that you left undone. Like all of the people that you make feel bad and you never really fix it or mend all the things you can. Those are the things (I think) that cause the most pain for the soul.
This week was pretty darn cool as well because we are gonna baptize somebody this week, whoop whoop. This lady has worked her tail off to feel ready. It was super cool this week though. So she said she still didn't feel ready because she felt a lot of guilt because her daughter died and she thinks that it was her fault. So she said before her baptism she wanted to fell like she had received forgiveness for this. So we said one way you can is you can fast for the things that you need, and in this case for more peace in this. So anyways, she fasted for 12 hours and then said a prayer and she said she fell asleep and had a dream where she was once again with her daughter and she was just smiling at her, like everything was alright. So anyways she wakes up and she feels as if a women or girl is hugging her, and then she feels a kiss on her cheek. She told us that she knew it was her daughter telling her that everything was alright and it wasn't her fault and that she's happy now. And then she told us that when she looks at the picture of her daughter she doesn't feel sad at all, but it fills her up with joy and love and hope. So she said she is now ready and she's a gonna be baptized this week. Whoop whoop. It was super, super cool.
That's all I got for this week. Have a great week.
"Church is true--go be awesome"-Anne Bagley
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