One extremely important lesson I learned this week was to "Treasure up the words of Christ." In my studies this week I have learned just that, straight from one of the the greatest sources of truth we have...The Book of Mormon! In 2 Nephi 31 we find the key components to the gospel...The Doctrine of Christ, "Follow thou Me." What a powerful statement in the 12th verse; " Follow thou me and do the things which ye have seen me do." The great importance of these words is that I can know the truth of all things from God by way of the Holy Ghost. But more importantly, it comes down to this...Knowledge. There are a lot of things we CAN know but its the things we SHOULD know that will save us. We need knowledge to have faith and if we don't have knowledge what are we supposed to believe in?  I had an experience this week with Elder Blandford where we experienced just that.

          In a conversation with a Congregational Pastor he stated.."You do not need a name to be saved all you need is Jesus, we are saved by Grace." How much knowledge of Christ did he have not very much. We tried our best to teach him it's by grace we are saved after all we can do. He however was stubborn and would not lest us teach him. This brother didn't believe that we have to "work" for salvation, not just rely on grace. Hopefully he'll one day receive knowledge, but all we can do is plant a seed and hope it sprouts someday.

It was a great week, filled with fun Zone activities, a visit from Elder Bednar (AWESOME!!!!!) and just getting out and doing WORK!

The Gospel is so true and I've learned so much about it this past week and looking forward see what else can be learned! Love you all!!!

Papatoetoe Zone

My district..the Relief Society district

The Swamp

The TRIO. A Samoan, a Tahitian and a Maori

Big shout out to Elder (Nick) Lortsher and Elder (Riley) Duckworth, well done good and faithful servants. Onward and upward, stay TRUE!!!