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Oliver Smith

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hello!

these last couple weeks have been so good!!

Barbara was baptized last Monday evening and the ordinance was beautiful! our friend Jolanna whom we tag teamed with the sisters was baptized Tuesday night as well!! 

"Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest." (Doctrine and Covenants 84:20)

we see this power everyday! it's remarkable to be able to see it first hand and be blessed enough to see it as one of the Lord's servants. I love God with all my heart, might, mind, soul, and strength. I know He lives. there's no doubt in my mind about it. I would not replace the time I've spent serving the Lord in His vineyard for anything else. 

the Lord said to the Prophet Joseph Smith while incarcerated in liberty jail, "Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven." (Doctrine and Covenants 123:13) This work, as the Lord says, is "truly manifest from heaven." there's not doubt in my mind about it. 

another cool insight I found this week was found in Alma 37. Alma is talking to his son Helaman and is giving him his own fatherly advice. He states, "shall the words of Christ, if we follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of sorrow into a far better land of promise." (Alma 37:45) 

I invite you all to recognize the obstacles in your path that may be keeping you from recognizing your "far better land of promise." get rid of them. repent. do whatever it takes to stay on the path which leads to righteousness. I promise you that as you forsake these things for Christ's sake, you shall recieve, as the Lord once said, "an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." (Matthew 19:29) 

I love you all! hope you all are loving Jesus!

e. smith 









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