The cat's name is John Wayne. It has a crooked neck so his
head is always tilted sideways.
So I've decided I need a hedgehog.
Also, this dog's name is
Buddy and he is like my BFF. The dog & hedgehog belong to a great family. Buddy will ALWAYS play with me and is super smart and well-trained. We were out
doing yard work for service
So guess what? We had a mid-transfer transfer after all. I have
a new companion now, named Hermana McRae. She just got here about an hour ago.
So, on Saturday night President Wilson called us and told us that Hermana
Depablos would be going to Charlottesville to be with Hermana Wilkins and I
would be getting a new companion, Hermana McRae. I was sick from like Wednesday to
Friday, and then my companion got sick with something else on Friday and so we only
ended up teaching 4 lessons this week. Plus like everything we had set up that
we didn't have to cancel ended up cancelling on us.
So yeah, this has been a really interesting week. Not a lot
has happened besides those things.
My personal study this morning was kind of cool. I was
reading Alma 8-10 and wondering why it is that when you have more light, you
have more condemnation if you break the commandments. And I just kind of
related it to like if a complete stranger were to walk up to me and say,
"I bet you got terrible grades in school and you are really stupid,"
I would just be like, "Ok, whatever. You don't even know me." But if
someone that knew me really well came up to me and started doing things totally
against what I had asked them to do or started just like saying terrible things
about me, whether they were or were not true, I would be really angry and I
would not want to be that person's friend anymore. And I think it is probably
the same with God. He knows and loves each of us, but, for example, the Lamanites
didn't know God. And they were always breaking the commandments and persecuting
the church and such, but it was only because they didn't know any better and
they legitimately thought they were doing right. The Nephites, on the other
hand, knew exactly what they were supposed to be doing, but they chose not to.
Which is basically like just spitting on God. They knew the commandments, they
knew the church and the prophets, but they killed and persecuted the church and
a lot of other stuff regardless of their knowledge, and it makes sense that God
wouldn't be ok with that. Not that He is just fine with the Lamanites doing all
that stuff, but it is like a little child that knows they shouldn't hit but
they do it anyways. Of course they are going to get a worse punishment than
they child that hasn't been taught those things. That child will just be
corrected and taught, rather than punished (if that makes sense.) It would not
so much be chastisement, and more of just trying to teach the child not to hit.
I don't know. It made sense in my head. I hope it makes sense to you guys. But
I'd never really understood that very well before. Of course I knew that it was
true, because there are countless examples of it, even today, but I just
didn't understand why. This is why we study!
Well, I love you all lots! Have a wonderful week and I hope
you had a great Easter!
Love,
Hermana Emily Pratt
PS - Random church board sign we drove past: "You can't
keep a good man down. He is risen!"
Another Yard Statue
Beautiful Bush
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