Week 78 - January 27th, 2020 (Sinait, Philippines)

Zone Conference Pics
(With Elder Crandall - showing off our
Sacramento and Washington tie clips)

Hello everyone, it's been a great week here. We had a great Zone Conference this past Tuesday up in Paoay, ilocos Norte. It was awesome, so much learned about open-hearted people and using the Book of Mormon and becoming enough through the Savior- it was great as well to see batchmates and others that I haven't seen in a while. After that day, we really set to work applying those things we were given to help and strive to bring joy to these people in Sinait. We've been super blessed to have met many people this week who are just simply humble, willing, and open-hearted. It's really been inspiring me to try to be the same, We had four new people come to church this last Sunday, along with two others who have come before one of which is going to be baptized this upcoming Saturday, we are so excited for her! Her name in sister Mary Beth, and we've been teaching her a little over a month now. She is just so willing and open to her Savior and He is working wonders in her life.

I am really working on my own humility here, and striving to find a feeling of adequacy and "enoughness" through the Savior and His power to make us complete. It's such a deep need, for us to be enough, for us to belong and to feel at peace with ourselves and with others. It's a need that I'm finding really cannot be filled without the infinite power and reach of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. There is no other power or influence that can reach every corner, every facet of our beings and fill us with light and love, and it took the greatest sacrifice of all. I am just inexpressibly grateful for the sacrifice that our Redeemer made in order to mediate us, imperfect, weak beings, with our perfect and happy and loving Father in Heaven. He gave us a way, His Gospel. I don't know where I would find hope in a world without it, for I cannot fathom ever feeling happy without the peace of repentance, without the knowledge of a bigger Plan. I am retaking the vision of this work- this is of the greatest importance to us all. This is the greatest need, the deepest craving for peace and light, and I'm so grateful to be a means of offering our Father's solution. I pray that all of you who find yourselves craving these inner stirrings of the soul, this peace that does not end, to find it in and only in Jesus Christ, our infinite and loving Savior and Redeemer. I know that He is the only One, and how great the Plan of our God. I love you all so much, and can't wait to see you all soon!

Love,
Elder Griffitts