Live, cherish and love the gospel!

first of all SYD I´M SO PROUD OF YOU FOR GIVING AWAY A BOOK OF MORMON! how awesome!! and even better that your following up on her reading! that´s so great. i know you are planting a huge seed for your friend.

yesterday at church there was a talk that i loved. the brother talked about how if we aren´t keeping a commandment it´s because we don´t understand the doctrine. if we aren´t praying everyday, we don´t understand why we pray or why we need to pray. during his talk i thought about how president rappleye always used to say if people don´t acept the invitation to be baptized then they don´t understand what we are asking...they don´t understand why they need to be baptized in our church by someone who has the priesthood authority. they don´t understand that the authority was lost but was restored by Joseph Smith. the other day hermana martinez was telling me that the hardest part about serving in chile is that the people here don´t understand our message of the restoration. it´s really hard to help the people here to understand!! but it´s our job as missionaries to help them understand! but they will never ever know it´s true until they feel it for themselves. until they ask God if Joseph Smith really was a prophet. same with us. we aren´t ever going to pay tithing if we don´t understand why we pay tithing. it´s one thing to understand but it´s another to feel it. it´s our responsibilty as members of the church to understand why we do the things we do. and we need to always make the effort to do our part to keep the commandments. when elder ballard came to the mission he told us to "internalize the doctrine of christ." how grateful i am for my mission that´s helped me to understand AND to feel that what i teach is true. i´ve learned a lot about how to apply and live and cherish and love the gospel.

well, that´s about it. haha i love you all SO MUCH! i hope you have a great week! i know the church is true! i love being a missionary!

con amor, hermana steele