He Can Physically Ease our Suffering

Buenos Dias!

So this week was a little slow again, we're still a little short on investigators. But its all good. We met some really cool people who are interested so hopefully things will start picking up again soon. We met a guy named Ricky, who is always really friendly to the Elders, and apparently used to have them over for dinner all the time, but never got invited to church.....so hopefully we'll be able to get things rolling with him. His whole family speaks Spanish as well as English so sometimes he will just randomly blurt out some Spanish things to his wife or kids, and we never know if he's talking about us or not! But he's a really nice guy so I trust him. We also met Laura and her family. They just moved from California and she is pretty interested. Her husband isn't, but he is prefectly fine with us coming over and teaching them. They have three kids and they should usually be there for the lessons so that will be great.

 

One thing I have been thinking about a lot, and realizing from talking with so many people, is that people don't understand how the Atonement can hellp them out in their lives. A lot of people accept that Jesus Christ saves them from their sins, but they don't realize the benefits He offers us in this life as well. People that have transgressed feel guilt, whether they realize it or not, they are burdened down by guilt. Calling upon Christ as Alma the younger did, allows us freedom from that guilt and misery. But also, because Christ suffered all our pains and afflictions, he can physically ease the burdens of those things. When he "takes our burdens upon him" He can physically ease our suffering. That is something that not many people understand, and probably no one understands completely. But as we begin to take advantage of His gift to us, we can better understand what He went through and draw closer to Him because of it.

I hope things are going well for everyone at home. Take care and God bless,

Elder Hiatt