Magandang araw my dear friends and family. It's a pleasure as always to be able to address you this fine Monday morning (sounds like a talk or something), I hope you have all enjoyed another week of success and joy. We have had an awesome week of work this week, we've been focusing a lot in some of our closer areas, and we have found so many cool people out in one of our barangays, Root, where we are seeing some great progression and the miracle of change in people- I can really say with no doubt, from both my own experiences and in seeing it now in others I know that the Atonement of Christ is a real, life-changing power that is present in all who seek it.
We had an awesome lesson earlier this week about faith, and I was really enlightened by the analogy that Alma makes to a seed in Alma chapter 32. Faith is something that always starts and at its core a belief- but if left that way never has a chance to grow and bring forth fruit and joy. Like a seed, we will never see the results of careful care and patience if we are not willing to first plant it in our hearts and then actually work and labor to help it grow. And as it grows of course we see the growth, and it becomes evidence that it is good. But even then, we still do not taste the end result, the fruit in this analogy, until the tree is fully grown and the reward prepared- perhaps that is the eternal life that results from a life lived through faith in Christ and diligence and patience in working and hoping for that day to come. And if you want a better explanation of what I just sort of tried to explain, just read Alma's pretty much perfect description. That's all I've got this week, I hope you all have a wonderful week- I love you all, see ya in a bit!
Love,
Elder Griffitts
