"With that He was brought before the gentile rulers in the land. Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee, interrogated Him once, and Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor in Judea, did so twice, the second time declaring to the crowd, “I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man.” 3 Then, in an act as unconscionable as it was illogical, Pilate “scourged Jesus, [and] delivered him to be crucified.” 4 Pilate’s freshly washed hands could not have been more stained or more unclean.
This was also a telling time among those who knew Jesus more personally. The most difficult to understand in this group is Judas Iscariot. We know the divine plan required Jesus to be crucified, but it is wrenching to think that one of His special witnesses who sat at His feet, heard Him pray, watched Him heal, and felt His touch could betray Him and all that He was for 30 pieces of silver. Never in the history of this world has so little money purchased so much infamy. We are not the ones to judge Judas’s fate, but Jesus said of His betrayer, “Good [were it] for that man if he had not been born.” 7
Those paragraphs are from a talk by Jeffery R. Holland and I just love those 2 paragraphs from that talk. It is so true. The questions is, what is our 30 pieces of silver that we are going to do to give up our savior? what are we going to do to sin against the lord?
(I had wrote to Daniel about the Atonement)
I had a pretty decent week. started out not to fun. Apparently if you don't have hot cheoteos for awhile and then all the sudden you eat 2 big bags within 1 hour, you get pretty dang sick. haha, that is exactly what happened to me. i was pretty sick mon, tues and wednesday. Monday all day my comp had to go to the dentist for his braces so we were there and it was funny, I was doing calls for the nurse and making appointments. I guess I have gotten pretty good at making appointments with people. I was 100 percent successfull. haha.
AS for Ashley and Lindsey, Wow i cannot believe that. First off that is just amazing for Becky, what an example she is for them, but really you, mom, them coming to the house and seeing how happy we are as a family and then them seeing the change in Becky, there is no wonder as to why they want in too. What does Margaret say about all of this? Anyway share this scriptre with them that i love, from Romans chapter 8
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I love that. Tell them that I love them alot and that iI am so happy for their decision to be baptized. I miss them alot and I wish I could be there with them but I´ll be there in spirit. and I´ll be thinking about them all day long. But the most important part is that their Heavenly Father is really happy with them and really glad for their deecision. He loves them and I always like to think of baptisim days as a party in the heavens. God is celebrating and all the angels are celebrating too that another soul is coming into the right path and making the right decision. I'm so happy for them.
Let me get to my week now, like i said i was pretty sick so the first part kind of stunk but we worked extra hard the 2nd half of the week and we got alot accomplished. this week we went to the temple which I might say I just absoutely LOVE going there. I was thinking about just being in there and how you can literally hear nothing. You can find the most quiet place in the world but still you can not find the peace that we feel in the temple. It is just amazing. Also we had House inspections as well. they went well and also Hermana Stay officially told me that we are allowed to use contacts because she uses them too. haha.
Ok with our Investigators.
So it was cool on Sunday Jose and Noelia and Kevin came to church. they are from the Family Claveria. We had a really cool visit with them this past week and we taught a little bit more about the things that we need to do and the Book of Mormon. Jose is really coming along and in church he loved it all. He said it was everything that he could of possibly imagined it to be. with the piano and all the calmness and everything he just loved it. i really think he will probably be baptized real soon.
With George, we are still teaching him but not so much with Delma anymore because she heard some stuff and idk it was just really weird. When we were there I just told her that she didn't have to listen to us if she didnt want to because she was just like staring at me really weird. I just told her how she has her free agency and all that stuff and she kind of felt relieved but she says that she will continue studying the church so she can find out if the church really is true or not. With George we still have the fecha with him for the 10th of September and so far he is good for that so we are working for that. I really hope he can be baptized. the last time we taught him we taught about the authority and how true the church really is and you could just see in his face how happy he was getting when we could actually back up what we talk about with scripture. There has been so many things that I have learned about how true the church really is and really, there is no other church that is even close. Not one even holds a breath compared to our church, but don't worry mom, I am really respectful about how I teach. haha, but I just love teaching about the true church and really pointing out to the people that we are real and that the things that we have in our church aren't wishful hopes, but they are truths that we have.
Also a really cool story that happened. and this has strengthened my testimony that God puts us in peoples lives when we need them. There was this lady who is the grandma of this one family we visit who are members. The grandma isn't a member, but she usually cleans the house in the morning and then goes and picks up the kids from school. One morning we were walking and I dont know why but I really felt the urge to go and visit her. So we were walking over there and right when we knocked on the door she comes to the door and was just like elders please come in. We went in and we sat down and we just talked with her for about like 40 mins. right when we were about to leave she tells us, elders I dont know if you know this but right before you came, I was cleaning the dishes and all the sudden I started having a nervous attack. I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest. I started praying really hard to God that he would send someone to come and help me. In all honesty what could she of done if she was to have a heart attack right at that moment. she could do nothing. She goes on to tell us that right when she said amen to her prayer we rang the door bell and she ran to go see who it was and there we were. haha, good thing we were listening to the Spirit. After she says that she let us in and she could really feel the Spirit with us and just felt a peaceful feelling come into her life. She immediately felt calm and better and was so happy we came. I know for a fact that God puts us in people's paths. I know that we have the Spirit with us and that when we go to visit people they can feel that. I love these people here so much and I love helping them so much.
The photo of the baptism is of the two elders from the area next to mine. elder doran and elder tijerno. elder doran is my bud, who I work out with. They had a good baptism and they invited us to go and be the witnesses. so that was cool. I'm loving my time here and I really feel like I'm starting to focus more in the work. and not so much in home. but yeah, well until next week. we are going to be writing more in the mornings now so try to write the letters on Sunday now, so I can write you. I love you all so much and miss you guys.
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| Yes, he IS a Shipley!! |
love your son elder shipley.
where is a photo of your apartment?did you get a good report with the mission president - remember if you are a slob it is a direct reflection on me
always do your best - you want to not only remember this for the best two years .................but the best you could do for two years!!
haha yeah but I feel better now, and I still love the hot cheetos, haha my mom here from san francisco says I cant eat anymore, she says that if you send me them I have to throw them away, and I just say, they are too sacred, I can't do that, but next time I´ll eat them more slowly. The solution, yes send more, the small bottles only last me like a 2 weeks and a half. They go really fast, I just had to buy a bottle right now but it was a big one, idk if it is cheaper here but a big bottle here is like 12 dollars, and yeah share that message with them at the baptisim. let me know how it goes, also i´ll get the picture of the apartment for next week. i forgot about it but i just wrote that down so i´ll get it. and yes hermana stay was really impressed with our apartment, she says it was one of the cleanest apartments, she says that you taught me well.
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