Forces of Nature and Acting

So this week we've been getting some rain which has been a blessing. It's cooled things down.... Well not for a long time but it still helps. Yesterday it started to pour like hardcore jungle rain and lighting striking so close you could feel the houses rumble. It was AWESOME! Nature, you gotta love it! 

We had my last Zone Conference this last week which was weird. President Carlisle talked about improving the way we find people to help more people enter the waters of baptism. He put emphasis on finding through the help of members and teaching with them as well. Him and Sister Carlisle also got kinda emotional because it's their last conference with us and they shared some great heartfelt words. It was good. Oh also here they have the people going home that transfer share their last testimony so I gotta go up and share. That means I gotta share with 2 others that were there. It was weird to accept that I'm going home because I still feel like I've got lots of time left and lots of people to help. His work isn't finished until everyone has had a chance to hear the good news. Lots of work to do! 

This week we were practicing for a "play" that we did as a zone. I don't remember if I shared about the activity about the apostasy and restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We acted all that out with costumes that the Stake President had custom made for us. It was awesome and there was a good turnout. President was so content that he is planning on doing it again in the coming months. It was a good way to let people know about the truths and to help people understand more about Christ's restored church. I'm so glad to be apart of His church and to be able to have guidance and blessings through obedience to His commandments. 

With a couple that we are helping get married, so they can be baptized, we are reading the Book of Mormon every week. This week we read Moroni chapter 7. I loved a lot of what we read but verses 18 & 19 stood out to me:

18 And now, my brethren, seeing that ye know the light by which ye may judge, which light is the light of Christ, see that ye do not judge wrongfully; for with that same judgment which ye judge ye shall also be judged.

19 Wherefore, I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ

I love how we need to judge people how we would like to be judged. Sometimes we criticize people for what they do or for what they don't do. But as we forgive and judge how we'd like to be judged, we will become more forgiving and more understanding of the trials others are going through. This motive to look for the good is the Light of Christ and like it mentions in verse 19, as we rely on this gift God has blessed us with we will be more like Christ. Judge like you'd like to be judged. Forgive. Serve. Love.

Elder Beardall