Week 41 - May 13, 2019 (Dingras, Philippines)

Hello family and friends, it's great to be able to write you all this wonderful Mother's Day. I guess this one is going to be themed, as I have had some great time to reflect the somewhat inconceivable goodness and grace of my own mother, and to an extent mothers everywhere as we take a day this year to specially recognize their constant and loving Christlike love for all of us. Just as the 2,000 warriors of Helaman in Alma 56, we are all blessed to be taught by them, and given our very lives by them. And I would just like to give another special mention of the goodness and perfection of my own mother, who's example and unconditional love somehow found patience with even me up until now, and I just want to say how grateful I am for that. 

We've seen some great work this week- we are really striving right now to talk to everyone still and make new friends who will be able to see the value of this message of joy. It gives me a lot of reflection myself for the value in the message we are sharing- for I need to have the love and trust in it to offer it with my whole heart to those others I love and trust. That's the spirit of missionary work- becoming one who loves all people and does this work for their good. And if I am doing it in any other way there can be no real change made, on either part of the process. So I have simply been gaining a newfound appreciation for the quality of love- one described in the scriptures as greater than all others. And now is the time to both see and display that love in our own lives, through our gratitude and service for our fellow man, our families, friends, neighbors. Now is up to our own understanding, but I know that when the love is there opportunities have a way of manifesting themselves. May we all seek to find and have the love to act on those. Thank you all for being such examples of love in my life- now I need to try to show it back by following our greatest example of love, Jesus Christ, by offering His salvation to the world. And so the work moves forward, with His power and glory at the helm. I love you all, I will talk to you next week!

Love,
Elder Griffitts