Halloween was lots of fun! It was a pretty regular day, but that night we had our FHE. We had lots of candy and played some Halloween games. The Elders acted out 'the first Halloween' in the Book of Mormon. It was when Nephi kills Laban and puts on Laban's clothes to get the brass plates. It was pretty funny. We had a competition to see who could make a mummy faster out of toilet paper (the girls won obviously). Sister Rose and I made caramel apples and muddy buddies for everyone. It was a good time!
Unfortunately, ____ who was going to be baptised on the 17th dropped us yesterday. She has been taught for over a year and she texted us yesterday saying it's not something she wants in her life right now. That was really sad. BUT on the bright side ______(9) got permission to be baptized on the 17th! His parents are excited and they want to be married and baptised before Christmas. What a miracle!
This week we taught a minister from the Church of Christ. It is crazy how similar their beliefs are to ours. They pray the exact way we do, they believe the Church was restored, etc. They believe in basically everything except for temples and the Priesthood. It was incredible to see our beliefs line up.
As I was reading the Book of Mormon as part of President Nelson's invitation to the women I noticed that every time or almost every time they talk about the commandments they refer to them as 'commandment's of the Lord' or 'the Lord's commandments' or something of the sort. The Lord is always associated with commandments. I think it's important to remember the why of the commandments and to know that we don't just do something or avoid other things. We do them because we love the Lord and He has commanded that we live in a certain way. And along with that there is always a promised blessing worth so much more than we give. What a gift the commandments are!
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