Aloha my wonderful family,
Happy Memorial Day! I hope that you really enjoy being with the whole family today. I'll admit, I'm kind of jealous. This week has been a week of ups and downs. The biggest news, one of our investigators passed away a couple of days ago. She was invited to be baptized but kept procrastinating the repentance process and just kept saying, "One day I'll do it, I'm just not sure I want to make the changes in my life yet." So, you can imagine our sadness. I keep thinking about how many times in the Book of Mormon it says not to procrastinate the day of your repentance. We were able to see the reality of that in our lives this week and it's devastating.
There are so many thoughts that are going through my mind right now. I wonder how often we assume that we have unlimited tomorrows to do the things we know we need to do or change. Life is so fragile and we are not guaranteed to have the time to do the things in the future that we've been putting off at this time. I mean, you know me, when I want to do something I find a way to do it. Many of my shallow life goals have been achieved at my old age of 21, such as living in England, working for the Park Service, serving a mission :) But as I reflect on the death of our investigator this week, all of a sudden my priorities have shifted. What about my spiritual life goals? What about my salvation and the salvation of those I love? What about my relationship with my Savior and with those that I love the most? Am I repenting everyday? Would I be ready to stand before the Savior at this point in my life with clean hands and a pure heart? The thought is a little daunting....
In sacrament meeting on Sunday, one of the speakers presented these 4 questions that I've been thinking a lot about.
1- Am I what I want to be?
2- Am I closer to the Savior today that I was yesterday?
3- Am I willing to make the changes necessary and do I have the courage to change for the better?
4- Will I be a better person tomorrow?
I love you so much and I'm so grateful for the plan of salvation, which is the plan of happiness! What a blessing to know that my family is sealed in the temple and will be together for eternity. I'm eternally grateful to my Savior for loosing the bands of death that bind his people. I will try to be a better person tomorrow than I was today. I love you and am praying for you!
Sister Stringer
Happy Memorial Day! I hope that you really enjoy being with the whole family today. I'll admit, I'm kind of jealous. This week has been a week of ups and downs. The biggest news, one of our investigators passed away a couple of days ago. She was invited to be baptized but kept procrastinating the repentance process and just kept saying, "One day I'll do it, I'm just not sure I want to make the changes in my life yet." So, you can imagine our sadness. I keep thinking about how many times in the Book of Mormon it says not to procrastinate the day of your repentance. We were able to see the reality of that in our lives this week and it's devastating.
There are so many thoughts that are going through my mind right now. I wonder how often we assume that we have unlimited tomorrows to do the things we know we need to do or change. Life is so fragile and we are not guaranteed to have the time to do the things in the future that we've been putting off at this time. I mean, you know me, when I want to do something I find a way to do it. Many of my shallow life goals have been achieved at my old age of 21, such as living in England, working for the Park Service, serving a mission :) But as I reflect on the death of our investigator this week, all of a sudden my priorities have shifted. What about my spiritual life goals? What about my salvation and the salvation of those I love? What about my relationship with my Savior and with those that I love the most? Am I repenting everyday? Would I be ready to stand before the Savior at this point in my life with clean hands and a pure heart? The thought is a little daunting....
In sacrament meeting on Sunday, one of the speakers presented these 4 questions that I've been thinking a lot about.
1- Am I what I want to be?
2- Am I closer to the Savior today that I was yesterday?
3- Am I willing to make the changes necessary and do I have the courage to change for the better?
4- Will I be a better person tomorrow?
I love you so much and I'm so grateful for the plan of salvation, which is the plan of happiness! What a blessing to know that my family is sealed in the temple and will be together for eternity. I'm eternally grateful to my Savior for loosing the bands of death that bind his people. I will try to be a better person tomorrow than I was today. I love you and am praying for you!
Sister Stringer
