Hello Friends and Family
This time I will being my email with something spiritual. Just to change it up a bit...
I was reading in 3 Nephi the other day, and after there were great disasters and natural upheavals of nature following the crucifixion of Christ, on the other side of the world, the surviving more righteous people started to hear a voice from heaven. Here is one of the things they heard:
3 Nephi 10
6 O ye house of Israel whom I have spared how oft will I gather you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, if ye will repent and return unto me with full purpose of heart.
The line "as a hen gathereth her chickens" is repeated a few times. It is first heard that they have been gathered many times, and the Lord has gathered and protected them numerous other times, and in this line it is stated that He will continue to do so. He will continue to gather and protect his people, on conditions of Repentance.
Applying this to ourselves, well.... The Lord will always gather His people who repent. There is no limit. He has protected us and helped us return to Him many times, but even if we fall away again, we can return. So remember, little chicks, to return and find safety and peace in the Gospel, and in our Savior.
This week was a good one. One of our wards picked up another chunk of area. We picked up a monthly-payment apartment complex, called 'Sportsman's Manor". This place was once redzoned. We were next to it once, and had several people tell us that "this is a bad neighborhood. You should probably leave. There is a reason they call this place 'Murder Manor'." Which is funny because we have already had a lesson inside, and most people I have talked to here seem nice enough. Well, at least not likely to pull a gun out on me or something. Our Mission President said "well, just be smart and follow the Spirit. Don't try to prove something by going in there, just be smart."
So that's what we will do. Be smart.
This new part of the ward boundaries just means we have a lot more people to talk to. This is my biggest area so far. If we walked it would take us a few hours to get from one side to another. We have some people we are teaching. Right now it's mostly old people or teenagers. I'm still figuring out this new are as far as members and people being taught go...there is a lot of people here.
One of those "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" signs is in our area too. Maybe I'll get a picture with it. But we're not supposed to look like tourists, and it is on a busy highway...we'll see.
It's slightly cooler here in Vegas. But it's also more humid, believe it or not. In Henderson it would jump to 115 degrees, but we super clear. Here, it's more like 101, but it'll jump to 50 percent humidity and then back to 2 percent in a matter of hours. It is more muggy here...
Oh, also it's monsoon season. It floods here a wee bit. There was water up to my knees during a thunderstorm here. My companion and I helped a car that got water in its engine, get out of the flood-zone. There were waves coming up to a gas station. It was cray! We had lightning right above us. Flash-boom style lightning. It was super fun! My shoes and socks were soaked, but the work moves on!
I have a few pictures.
A few are of the flooding. One is of a hidden needle we found on a fire extinguisher case. Another is a gridlocked checkers game my companion and I got last p-day. Another is Elder Picinich and I riding. He let me have a bike he got, that is working much better than the one I brought, so that is why that bike looks different...
And a picture of one of the typical Vegas vehicles.
-Elder Moore
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