Chapter 47: Apples and Mission tour

 September 10, 2024

Hey everyone, it was a really good week. We did a lot of finding this week which is always fun, and we also got to meet up with more of our friends. We met up with an older man named Kari and discussed Alma 32 and what Faith is. It was a great lesson and awesome to see his testimony and his faith in Jesus Christ. We also had a full day of service this week getting all the apples off of one of the members here's trees. It was a super fun day but definitely drained us haha. On sunday we had 3 random people come to church which was awesome. We're trying to set up lessons with 2 of them now, the other isn't interested. On P day we went down to Helsinki since we have Zone Conference or Mission Tour the following day, so we had to switch our P day. We stayed in a apartment with Aatos, Elder Johnson, O'Bryan, and Smith. It was super fun! Zone conference was awesome! We had Elder Phillips of our Area 70 come and talk to us since he was on a mission tour. There was a lot of good things he and president Lehtinen talked about. The main things that stuck out to me were


Teach as the Savior taught

Never become complacent with your relationship to Jesus Christ

I think the latter was the bigger take away, I feel like often times people study the gospel and they develop a real relationship with Jesus Christ, but then they start learning about more, and focus themselves on learning more doctrine and more church history, whatever it may be, obviously that's not a bad thing, but when you prioritize that over your relationship with Christ it becomes an issue. Never stop building your relationship with Christ, prioritize increasing your personal relationship with Christ more than anything, because that is the most important thing.   





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