7.28.14 - Damage Control

I'll just jump into it!

The "real Slim Shady" baptized his mom Saturday night. When it's a baptism week ... stuff hits the fan. After it all, the baptism had a really great turn out, "J" got her under the water in one dunk and she, just like everyone who gets baptized, look like a different person. There is light in her face and happiness in her eyes.

I went on an exchange with Elder Goodman and I found a 50-pound melon.

I'll jump back out of it.

I'm sorry, I don't know what happened ... the week just flew by.

I feel like we're doing a lot of damage control with recent converts as they make all of the necessary adjustments in their lives to live latter day saint lives. There are lots of hills and valleys of faith and lots of hills and valleys commitment. Each of them are moving at very different paces with very unique circumstances.

My studies this week centered on agency. I loved a comment made during the Priesthood session of the last general conference. Elder Randall said that agency is your power to become. So true! We have a tremendous gift, given to us by God, with which we first chose before this life to come to the earth and receive mortal bodies. Agency is our ability to choose Christ. Adam and Eve progressed our ability to make correct decisions when they partook of the fruit and gave us the knowledge between good and evil. We couldn't be agents for good, without there being a wrong path to follow. We will be judged by our works and our desires, and our works and desires are the results of our decisions, meaning our decisions make up who we are. God will see our mind and our body at judgment and have a history of everything we ever thought or did.

The council I give is to educate your agency so you can make choices that will lead to your own salvation. Come to know the Truth I touched on last week, and what things Christ admonishes us to do so we can be saved, so you can exercise your agency accordingly. The power is in each one of us to make decisions, and ultimately to make the greatest decision, to keep our second estate and choose to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. Then, to live everything that is implied by accepting Jesus Christ as our savior.

It is so worth it. We're not really living until we're living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love you so much.

You are the Salt of the Earth - Stay Salty!

Elder Tyler Meidell