tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18670556738571447742024-03-12T19:10:59.620-07:00Luke Rallison in Colombia Bogota NorthAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-79315954703537856032014-12-08T23:46:00.002-08:002014-12-08T23:47:34.621-08:008 Dec - lots of pictures. We can only guess . . . He looks very healthy and happy.<br />
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Is that a statue of someone in the river?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-30296767521831258432014-12-08T23:36:00.001-08:002014-12-08T23:36:45.891-08:00Christmas in Colombia and my district is awesome!<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418105805169_12345" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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So everyone here has the spirit of Christmas. Christmas in the mission is always my favorite time because it is the time when the people seem more spiritual. So it is easier to find new people and we have an excuse to sing to random people without it being to weird. And it gets even better because the church has release El es la Dadiva (I do not know what it is exaclety in English, He is the gift or something idk). Anyways it is awesome because we can show it to a lot of people. The church is also buying all of the advertisments in YouTube the 7th of December and the church has this baby plaung all of the time in time square. So this is pretty much the best time in the history of the world to be a missionary. The gospel is flooding the earth, in a way it never has before. </div>
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And no, the people here do not have Thanksgiving so the decorate more for Christmas and actually start decorating en November so that everything is all decorated by December. </div>
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Umm sadly I do not have a whole lot of time today because today we tried to see if they had shoes here in Colombia in my size because mine totally broke (like super duper uber broke) and I didn't want to wait for my package. So we went to like 10 stores and walked for hours and only found 2 pairs in my size and they were really expensive.<br /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there are some women in the branch who want your books so I don't know if any of your books are in Spanish. One young women asked for Just one Wish and Deep Blue Eyes . . . But she also understands a little English if there aren't any in Spanish. She says that English would be fine. So yah, there are some people who want your books so idk if you could send some but I said that I would ask.</span><br />
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After sharing an experience I had discussing some doctrine with someone who has decided to leave the church after 30 years, Luke made the following observations</div>
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Well that pretty much is why we can't be complacent and have the attitude that all is well in Zion. Because then we do not try do grow and build and strengthen ourselves. The first time that a trail or challenge comes, they fall. That is also why I am not going to raise my kids in Utah. Because the weakest missionaries I have seen come from there. Because they never see opposition (or they see a lot less of it) so they never grow. But something like that happened here in the mission. A missionary received a letter from his dad that said 115+ reasons why I have decided to leave the church. A lot of them were stupid.</div>
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It is interesting because in the war chapters in the Book of Mormon if you read it carefully you will realized that the biggest problems (for the Nephites) and the root of a lot of their problems were not the Laminates . . . the enemies were apostate Nephites</div>
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And so it is and so it will be with the church. I think it's because alot of people think all is well in Zion</div>
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Here are a few funny P-day fotos. Pretty random statues</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-12717461424937555332014-12-08T23:11:00.002-08:002014-12-08T23:11:11.649-08:00God's plan of happiness<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">17 Nov 2014</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey so I would like to share will you guys a couple of scriptures that I have found that you can use to talk about each point of the Plan of Salvation. 1) for your personal growth and 2) to help know where the doctrine is in the scriptures and 3) to help you explain better God's plan to others. I hope that you will take the time to look at each one of these scripture and I hope that you will put them in a scripture journal with your thoughts about them.</span><br />
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THE PRE-EARTH LIFE / WHERE DO WE COME FROM?</div>
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he is talking about himself here in these scriptures and verse 30 reveals to us that he took part in the creation of the world. this is cool because we have very few names of people who participated in the creation all though we know that many did.</div>
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moisés 3:5 (I think that this scripture is the most obvious but it can lead to other questions like whether rocks have spirits or a form of intelligence . . . also . . . there is a commandment that would shouldn't show the Pearl of Great Price to people who aren't believers... because the Book of Mormon is part of their test of faith. and if they don't have believe in the basics then the greater light is with held from them to their condemnation. </div>
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(Also I do not have time to tell you all my thoughts about every scripture but if you have questions or want to know my thoughts about a specific scripture you can ask me and I will tell you</div>
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Wow I think that this is a topic that is hard to understand for many people. It is still something that I do not fully understand. It is really important to understand it. You need to understand the purpose of the creation of the earth but if you do not understand the Fall you will not be able to understand the Atonement. Anyways I do not have time to share with you all the scriptures I have about the fall with my comments</div>
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2 Nefi 2:22-25 explains that it had to happen. Umm some day if you want I can send you the 10 (short pgs because my note book is small) of scriptures and comments from the bible supporting this Book of Mormon vs. bc there are some people who do not want to accept it but the short story is that it is true and that it had to happen. </div>
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Some people think that Satan frustrated God's plan (and that God's plan was for all of us to be in the garden for ever) but lets examine that for a moment . . . God is all powerful and all knowing, so would it be possible to destroy the plan of an all knowing all powerful being? Especially if you are not all powerful and all knowing???? Ahhh no</div>
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So let's go back to 1 pedro 1:19-20. It explains that Christ was chosen to be the Savior of the earth before the earth was formed . . . before the garden . . . before Adam and Eve . . . before the fall. God already had a Savior . . . Why? Because He knew that it was going to happen, because it was part of His plan.</div>
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FINAL JUDGEMENT (I don't remember if judgment has a 2nd e or not... but don't focus on the symbols on the pg focus on what they mean)</div>
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Freak that is a lot but if you want to understand Gods plan for you better, you should study it and be valiant and not a lazy bum. because you will read in section 76 that el reino terrestre is for those who are not valiant</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-39360893253772442962014-12-08T22:54:00.000-08:002014-12-08T22:54:00.918-08:0010 Nov 2014<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well I hope that everyone is doing well. I was a little sad to find out that there is no Thanksgiving in Colombia. I suppose that it makes sense because it has to do with the Pilgrams who came from England to the United States. But I always enjoy eating lots of delicious food and then sleeping on the couch. I suppose I did get one Thanksgiving on the mission in Washington so that is pretty cool. I just started realizing that i am on second and lasts with holidays. For example, I had my last Halloween of the mission. T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">his past Halloween I was thinking, "oh so this is what Halloween is like in Colombia. Now i know what to expect for next year. Since it was my first one in Colombia I thought that I was going to get another one . . . and then I remembered the one I had in Washington. Sooo ya, that was a little weird.</span><br />
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I have 2 theories about the second coming. First, I think Christ will come on a rainy day because it rained Sunday and half of the branch didn't show up. And second, i think that it will be a General Conference. I mean how else is it going to be published to all the world. </div>
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I was imagining that the other day. Someone from the First Presidency directing the meeting and saying we will now listen to the choir sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and then Christ will address us . . . That would be pretty crazy. Like the time when we were in Hawaii and we all went snorkeling instead of watching Conferenece and Asenath was all upset that she couldn't go and then she told us that the missionary age had been lowered and we thought she was just trying to get back at us and then it really had but we didn't know because we were not watching . . . ya that was pretty embarrassing. </div>
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So I had a bunch of scriptures that I wanted to share with you guys today about the plan of salvation but I forgot to bring my scripture journal so you I guess you won't get the knowledge that will almost take you to a high mountain where visions take place. But I will give it to you guys next Monday because it is tots bosssssssssssss</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-60790874726317372702014-11-03T20:59:00.004-08:002014-11-03T21:03:40.051-08:00Transfer - I'm Staying, but not my Companero3 November 2014<br />
Hey fam how is it going? So today there are transfers and my comp left. Tomorrow I will be with a new comp. Also I am now the District Leader but that pretty much means that I get to work more. But that is fine.<br />
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One of the
things that we started doing is singing hymns before every lesson. Our
lessons seem to be more powerful when we do that. A women and her daughter decided to leave the church over something
really stupid. The girl wanted to go to BYU but to get in she needs to
go to seminary. She never went to seminary and then they went to the
Branch President and asked him to sign off her seminary card
thing saying that she had gone to seminary so that she could go. The President said he wouldn't (because that would be dishonest) and so they
left the church . . . soooo yay. I
am going to vist them tonight and will see how it goes. The church is
really just starting here so there are always stupid things that happen. We will see how it goes.<br />
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We are still teaching bible classes in the church and it has been going
pretty well. We have 4 to 6 people who attend regularly but hopefully
more will come after this transfer. Were trying to teach the masses. Sooo
that is what's up. I have to go and lets be honest I know that Asenath
never reads the whole thing if it is long so I guess I will keep it
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Love you guys, Luke</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-62629727940433988462014-11-03T20:47:00.003-08:002014-11-03T20:48:18.103-08:00Short and to the PointOctober 27 2014<br />
Hey mom everything is going great here. We should have a baptism this Saturday. My comp and I found a ton of people to teach this week so
things are looking pretty good. Transfers are coming up and I will
probably get a new companion. But we will see what happens.<br />
Love, Luke<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-29849416328600890592014-11-03T20:45:00.001-08:002014-11-03T21:03:14.757-08:001000's of words (photographs)13 October 2014<br />
Fotos!!!!! <br />
First let me say we have a cool zone. The entire zone is as large as my district was in Spokane. We recently did a service project to paint a school.<br />
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Things have been going well. Here I am cleaning the baptismal font because we had some baptisms.</div>
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It is probably the coolest baptismal font I have seen. The only problem
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Here we are about to put the font to good use! <br />
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Remember when I said I've eaten ants? Well here is a foto of one of the little beasties, hormiga culona. People fry them up with butter. I didn't think they tasted all that good. A little crunchy. <br />
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This is kind of our backyard. Big industrial place across the river.<br />
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Sorry for the last photo Mom. You don't need to worry. The alligator is busy eating ants! </div>
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Well I was thinking for a moment, "Wow, I'm not sure what to write about
because I don't remember doing a whole lot this week or what happened. I realized that it was because I got sick this week and had to stay
in the house for a couple days and then we had conference. Our Mission President
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down to earth with his son and called a prophet. and how God has newly
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(investigador) you are telling me that there is a prophet in our days?</div>
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(b m) Yes</div>
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(b m) Yes that is what we know to be true and what we teach</div>
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(i) Wow that is amazing! What is the last thing that your prophet said to you?</div>
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would be a little embarassing. So we have to know what the prophets
says especially since that is one of the greatest differences between us
and other churches is that we have prophets.</div>
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But
yah. I was pretty sick for a few days so I did not do a whole lot. I
am not sure what it was maybe the water, or the misquitos, or a bad
fish that someone gave me . . . but its all good because I feel fine
now. </div>
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We
are working with this girl named Shirly (who is a recent convert) to
baptize her mother. So things are going really well with that. She is
attending church and reading the Book of Mormon and she attended
conference with us. So things are looking really good. Her baptismal
date is October 25th. We have a famliy home evening with her and
another family of recent converts tonight! I am not sure what we are
going to teach yet but whatever it is its going to be super spiritual
and powerful. A spirtual roundhouse kick to the face the will leave you and
your mother weeping . . . that is the goal! (parental comment - interesting metaphor, and graphic)</div>
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I have been studying the life of Alma the younger and what kind of
missionary he was. My goal is to become a missionary like him. He was a
powerhouse. I made a
list of his missionary attributes and where they can be found in the
scriptures . . . but alas . . . I forgot the list. So maybe next week I will
send it, idk. </div>
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By the way James. I saw your youtube videos of your comics that you drew I thought they
were pretty funny. But you should take a 2 year break from drawing
comics and attend to the other more important things that you have to
do. You should fulfill your duty to the Lord.</div>
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Matt
6:33 'Look first for the kingdom of God and all other things will be
added to you'. If you go on a mission first and then focus on the other
things the Lord will bless you with more éxito then if you had never
gone on a mission and had stayed at home doing whatever it is that you
do.</div>
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Love, Luke </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-45653691114329695342014-11-03T20:14:00.003-08:002014-11-03T20:14:30.189-08:00Crazy Cuisine29 September 2014<br />
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hey
fam and friends whats up? we have played soccer every P-day since I have
been here so I am getting pretty good. On another note, we basicly have no food in
the house but I think that we get our asignation tomorrow. I do not
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So
this week was pretty awesome my companion and I sat down Thursday to do our
weekly planning and we started setting goals. At the beginning of the
week we didn't have anyone with a baptismal date. We set some inspired
goals to help us work more effectively and now we have 3 people with a
baptismal date. So that is really cool.</div>
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One
of our investigatores invited us over to eat today so (and since we don't have
any food . . .) so of course we accepted. We were given fish and
arepas . . . and I realized something today . . . the water in Barranca has the same taste as fish. That is just how fancy we are
over here - the water has the same taste as the food. I am joking. I'm
pretty sure that means the water is dangerously dirty. </div>
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chicken
feet, cow udder, cow tongue, cow liver, cow stomach, ants (hormigas
culonas), and fried pig skin. mmmmmm yummy and I eat rice rice rice rice
rice and more rice.</div>
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Love, Luke </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-55503114625529387262014-11-03T20:04:00.002-08:002014-11-03T20:04:55.329-08:00The BEST mission in the worldSeptember 22 2014<br />
Well family, this week has been pretty much like a normal missionary week:
visiting people, finding people, dropping people, being dropped by
people. We had transfers this week but nothing has changed with me and my companion. However there is one missionary here who has only been here for
one transfer. He is a Greeny and he is not getting along with his
trainer. He was praying for a transfer and got transfered . . . and he
told us 'Wow! Now I know that God answers prayers." It is kinda sad that he had such a bad experience with his first
companion. But it happens. I guess its one of the ways God helps his
missionary develop patience.<br />
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Interestingly
enough the most common thing that I think we have had to teach this
week is about polygamy. That is kinda wierd all of the members had
questions about it. So we have taught all the members in our area about
polygamy and temple sealings and things like that. That was thanks to
Elder Joseph F Smith and the book Teachings of the Presidents that
mentioned he was sealed 3 times . . . so that was fun.<br />
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But its always an adventure here. Like today for example we do not have water in the house and I have to wash all my clothes . . . but I think that it is these little trials that make life fun.</div>
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Good quote from Helen Keller: 'Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."So I figure life would be pretty boring if I had a wahing machine and
water all of the time or even warm water. No actually it is so hot here
that I dont think I would use warm water even if I had it. </div>
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I have only had like 3 or 4 woman ask me if I wanted a wife or
girlfriend or if they could come back with me to the United States. I
think it is because I am in a smaller city so it doesn't happen as often.</div>
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But all and all its pretty awesome here <u>I am pretty sure I have the best mission in the world</u>.</div>
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Love, Luke </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-86523524041006789792014-09-16T19:22:00.001-07:002014-09-16T19:22:44.333-07:00Has the day of miracles ceased? No!<div class="base-card-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410918255560_8840">
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Well Saturday we had two baptisms. Let me tell you a little bit about it. So we went to the church at 10:30 to clean the
baptismal font. Everything was good. We left to go visit people
and find clothes for the people that were going to get baptized and other important stuff like that.</div>
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We arrived back at the church at 4 pm for the 5 pm baptism. We
turned on the water to start filling up the font.... and there wasn't any water . . . well not exactly, the water spout was spouting out water really really slowly.
And then we realized something else - there was nothing to stop the
drain. And then we realized something else - I didn't have pants to
baptize because I had left them in Cucuta. And then we realized that
we couldn't get into the font because on either side of the font the doors were locked. And then we realized something else - the library was locked so we couldn't get hymn books. I think that about sums it up. It
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The
other 4 missionaries arrived later with investigatores of there own
that were going to watch the baptisms and we told the the problems that
we had. So we decided to go into the other room and say a prayer
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First, we
found a bouncey rubber ball. I am not sure where it came from or why it was in
the church but it was perfect to close the drain. Second, one of the
missionaries had a pair of pants to baptize and they fit me perfectly.
Third, one of the missionaries was able to pick the lock on the locked door on the men's side so we could enter the baptismal font.
Fourth, one of the missionaries felt impressed before he left the house
to bring 4 extra hymn books, and since every other missionary had their own hymnal we didn't need to get into the library. The water was only up to my
knees but we didn't have any more time so we went to do the baptisms. The locked door to the girls side was magically (or miraculously) opened, which was really
good because we were baptizing a woman and her daughter. Even though
water was only up to my knees the baptisms were done without
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Everything
changed from the moment that 6 misionarys suplicated the Lord through
prayer, for miracles. Now looking back on the event I realized saw several. I
saw his hand that night. The Lord's spirit was with us in the ceremony. The mother we baptized had tears of joy as she came out of the water. </div>
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Well
the biggest challenge of being a missionary in Colombia is . . . one
moment to create suspense . . . wait for it . . . duh dah - La Unión Libre. The prophets have
prophesied that the plan of Satan is to destroy the family and make a
mockery of the law of chastity. And he has been rather successful here
in Colombia. The missionary who can help the people have the desire to
live the law of chastity will have great success here in Colombia. I am not able to express my feelings about this. I wish you guys could
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Love, Elder Luke</div>
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So for my birthday some of the members did a little party so that was cool.<br />
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My comp and I are fighting evil (Here's a picture to worry mothers)<br />
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I just want you guys to know the only reason I send goofy photos is
because the only time we have to take photos is when we are goofing off. So here's a picture of my new companion. We work hard. We work when its time to work and we goof off when its
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These final pictures Luke stated, "We might have had to take out a few drug lords."<br />
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(Luke seems to be really enjoying this.)<br />
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I'm sure this is the local soldiers thanking the Elders for their fine work. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-34443108902187616782014-09-16T07:44:00.000-07:002014-09-16T18:43:32.396-07:00Don't leave your keys in the door lock . . . just saying <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 September 2014 (Luke is now one year older - Happy Birthday Elder Rallison 8/31)</span><br />
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We have been working with a woman named Patricia and this week we had a few good lessons with her. She has a difficulty that I wont share with you guys but she broke down and just started to cry and cry and cry and so we did what I think all missionaries do in that situation. My companion and I looked at each other and we started praying in our heads and the spirit started guiding us and by the time we left she was calm and there a peaceful feeling in the room and she had a the resolve to overcome everything and we were all feeling really good.</div>
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The next day we visited Patricia to see how she was doing and she was super happy and smiling and laughing and we confirmed that she was going to come to church with us and she said that she was. And then she asked us a question I have never had anyone ask me. "¿Do the people sing alabanzas and clap in your church?"</div>
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" Umm no . . ."</div>
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"¡Whhhaaaaaat! ¿Why not? How can you worship the Lord without clapping your hands?</div>
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She was super confused and I am not sure why but focused on that and so we talked a little bit about that. She finally said, 'well I guess I can't judge a church before going and seeing how it is. And so I give you my word that I will go with you guys this Sunday. Because it is the spirit that will convince me.' </div>
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So Sunday we show up at here house to show her how to get to the church because it was her first time. As we were walking up to the house, she came out, all dressed up ready to go to church. and then a car pulled up and she got in and left (but she didn't see us). so my comp and I were like what just happened?¿?¿?¿? </div>
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We called her and she said . . . Oh sorry something came up and . . . then she hung up sooooo we are going to visit here tomorrow to find out what the what with her.</div>
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Later that night we walked by a house and the keys to the house were still in the door knob. in Colombia (at least where I have been in santander) there isn't a door knob on the out side just a key hole and the key is used to open the door. And someone left the keys in the door. </div>
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So my comp and I thought he we can do a service here, knock on the door and tell the person that their keys are in the door and then we can try to contact the person. So we knocked on the door someone came to the window saw us (didn't know that we saw them) and went back to doing what they were doing. </div>
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So I was like what the heck! That person just rejected us before they had the chance to hear . . . that we were there to serve them . . . So I opened the door and stepped in the house. In the front room there were 6 people watching TV. I scared all of them I'm sure. I said you left your keys in the lock and put the keys down and left . . .</div>
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But the look on all of their faces when I entered their house was pretty funny.</div>
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But hey, there are lots of people who reject us before the know why were are there. I guess they reject the Lord more then us because we are there to represent Him. But here is the thing: </div>
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Getting rejected for the Lord's sake is much better the being accepted for the worlds sake.</div>
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Love, Elder Luke</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-50310594779129437452014-09-16T07:30:00.001-07:002014-09-16T07:30:10.337-07:0025 Aug 2014<br />
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Something a little sad/ funny is that some people do not what to have a family forever . . . I don't know. For example just the other day we were talking to a couple and we asked the dad/husband in the family would you like to be together forever with your spouse and he said no no oh no no no. We were like what? why? And then he told us that he was only there because he had kids with this woman and he is staying there for the kids and that he is unhappy a lot of the time . . . Soo the law of chastity is really important.</div>
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But hey, I wouldn't mind being with you guys forever I imagine that it will be really cool. Especially with all the blessings that we will have. </div>
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I was thinking the other day (this is doctrine according to 2nd Luke) that the difference in the celestial world and the terrestial world is that one will have eternal progression in the real world and the other will have progression in a virtual world. Let me explain. The people in the celestial who are like god will have the power to create real worlds and the people in terrestial will be playing mind craft or something like that and will be creating things in a virtual world mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. </div>
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I would like to be creating real things instead of virtual things</div>
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I imagine that the people in the lower worlds won't have anything better to do so they will play video games. </div>
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Hey mom I was wondering if you would be able to put some names in the temple from me . . . I am assuming that you are going to say yes so here the are.<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410876968515_23071">
Sulema y Michelle</div>
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Orlando</div>
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Angélica </div>
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Tania </div>
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Gustavo y Maria </div>
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Patricia </div>
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Juan Muñoz </div>
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and Elder Sac my comp also wants his name in the templo so that he can learn English faster</div>
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Soooooo if you could get those in there some time today that would be great . . . especially since the temple is only 7 mins away and you should probably be going like once a week anyways</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-9898284211854774782014-09-16T07:21:00.000-07:002014-09-16T07:21:00.250-07:00Hottest spot in the mission is still not as hot as Arizona - 18 Aug 2014<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey. So I do not think Barranca is as hot as Arizona. So far it hasn't been to bad. It is the hottest place I have been in in the mission though. It is really super green here though. So that is weird that it is hot but green. I don't know. For me hot is associated with death and burnt things and the desert.</span><br />
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My companion looks like a Latin Travis Talbot so that is pretty weird. I will have to send you guys a picture next time. I do not have a lot of time. Today is a festivo so nobody works so it wasnt until now (late in the day) that we found an internet cafe open</div>
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But life is good and that is pretty much all I have time to say</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-46192108920506951192014-08-16T17:08:00.005-07:002014-08-16T17:11:17.131-07:00Final pictures from Cucuta. 12 August 2014<br />
I've been transferred to Barranca. I guess it's not totally unexpected. It's the hottest area (temperature wise) in the mission. I'll be getting on a bus at 8pm tonight and will drive 8 to 10 hours to arrive at my new area. I went and said my despedidas (good-byes) to some members and investigatores and it was pretty sad. But that is how the mission is. You just do what the Lord wants. Things will work out for the best.<br />
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First the bowling alley. We had a good time here. Who knew it was an entire mall.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-6514174878318273052014-08-04T21:50:00.004-07:002014-08-04T21:50:58.693-07:00Revelations and UnderstandingHey guys I wanted to share with you a reason that we ought to read the Book of Mormon more. There are lots of reason that we should read the Book of Mormon but here are some especially awesome ones.<br />
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Our
9th article of faith states that, "we believe that . . . God will reveal
many great and important things pertaining to the kingdom of God." God had many more things that he can reveal. God says to Moses that His works have no end and His words never cease. The Book of Mormon tells us 3 of the things that god has yet to reveal to us.</div>
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First, 2 Nephi 29:11-13 the lord
states that there will be a book reveled (or books) from the lost ten
tribes of Israel. And that it is from these books (Bible, Book of Mormon,
and this other book or books from the 10 tribes) that we will be judged</div>
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Second, 3
Ne 26:6-11 in this part of the Book of Mormon Christ is in the Americas visiting the ancient inhabitants of the land. Mormon says that
he can not write a hundred part of the acts Christ did. But he was
at the point of writing 'mayor cosas' but the Lord stopped him from doing
it. It says that the things that we have now are the 'menor parte' and
that we have these things to prove our faith. If we do not cherish these
things that we have, if we do not read and study and apply the things
that we have the Lord will not give us more and the 'mayor parte' will be
with held to our condemnation. </div>
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Why would the Lord give us more revelation if we do not know and understand the revelations that He has already given to us?</div>
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And third, Ether
4:4-7 I hope that you know the story of the Brother of Jared and how he
saw Christ. He was the first who saw Him completely and
realized that Christ was going to take upon Him a body of flesh and
bone. But he saw Christ and his faith was so strong that the veil was
taken from him and the Lord could not withhold anything.</div>
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Moroni says that the Brother
of Jared saw greater things than any other man. That is to say that from Adam down to Moroni nobody had seen anything greater than what the Brother of Jared saw.</div>
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Moroni
wrote those things in the gold plates and sealed them up. That part of
the Book of Mormon was never translated by Joseph Smith. The Lord
says that when we repent and become clean and have faith like the faith
the Brother of Jared had then we will be worthy to know the things that
he knew.</div>
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Presidente Benson said (and I
am not quoting perfectly) that we as a people and as a church have fallen
under condemnation we because we are not taking the Book of Mormon
seriously. We need to read it and study it more than we are and we need
to know Christ more than we know Him. The Book of Mormon is a test of faith and a pathway to greater light and truth and knowledge and we must read and understand it.</div>
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The Lord has many more thing prepared for us it is, we, who are unprepared. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-65959907576407885652014-08-04T21:35:00.005-07:002014-08-04T21:35:46.080-07:00No Easy-Bake Oven . . . muy triste28 July 2014 <br />
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So this week we had a baptism de una joven named Wendy. She is really
smart and I am sure that she will progress well in the gospel. We
had the baptism Saturday. I had some ingredients
left over to make cookies so I thought, 'hey lets make this
even a little more cool and make cookies'. A member family told us that they had an
oven and that we could do the cookies there so it was perfect.<br />
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When we went to the member's house we discovered it was an old gas oven. I didn't know how
to turn it on . . . and they didn't know how to do it either . . . We tried a
couple times and almost exploded ourselves . . . Not really. That was kind of a joke. Then we got a neighbor to come do it. </div>
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I asked for their cookie sheets and they gave my this
piece of metal that had the capacity to cook 2 cookies. Ugh. 25 minutes
later we had 8 cookies . . . and my comp and I had to go prepare for the
baptism. So we asked the member if they could keep baking cookies and
then bring them. They said that they were more than capable.</div>
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A series of unfortunate events later . . . The baptism had started and
ended and was pretty good and super spiritual. We went to eat the cookies. These are the cookies I had been bragging about all week to the members because
they do not have cookies here or do much baking. So we all went to eat the cookies. But in place of a plate of cookies was a plate of burnt
crisps . . . Apparently the family thought
that they should re-heat up the cookies again before leaving. They then explained to me that something strange had occurred. When they
put the cookies back in the oven they were really good. But when they took them out
they were not so good . . . Sooooo the moral of the story is that you
should not brag, ever. </div>
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The baptism was really good and we have some strong converts. I have
been focusing on recent converts more than anything else. I do not
want any of them to fall away. Half of our lessons that we do
weekly are to the recent converts. </div>
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We
are building good relationships with some of the members. When we arrived
here, none of the members would accompany the missionaries. Now we have
a group of people who are willing to acompany us all day. </div>
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Working for the Lord is the
best work that there is. It is sometimes the hardest and it certainly
doesn't pay the best, but it is the most rewarding. I have run out of
doubts. I know that the church is true and I know that God loves me. I have learned alot about him because I have worked with him. God
is so willing to bless those who put there confidence in Him.</div>
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Love, Elder Rallison </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-14312684655611718202014-07-28T01:48:00.004-07:002014-07-28T01:48:33.384-07:00Cucuta, a place to do what is needed, not whatever you want - or so the sign says.Interesting sign in Cucuta (14 July 2014)<br />
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(<span>If you want to do whatever you want please leave Cucuta)</span><br />
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hey family, what is up? Life is pretty good here. I do not have any
complaints. The independence day of Colombia was yesterday and nobody
did anything and I thought to myself surely this means something. If the
people do not love their country enough to celebrate its birth, surely
that must say something about the quality of the country hmmmmm.... idk.<br />
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We had a baptism set up for 2 weeks ago, I didn't tell you last week because I
didn't write anybody because we were buying stuff for a missionary
activity. Our investigator got chicken pocks right before her baptism . . . so we
are going to baptize her this Saturday. We are working hard here.</div>
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The biggest problem that
exists here is that the people are not married. Almost nobody is married
by law. We have 3 people who want to get baptized but can't because the
are not married and living with someone and have kids with this person
and can't separate . . . so I hope that we are going to marry a lot of
people in the following weeks. We will see. We are working on it. </div>
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I do not know how it is in
other missions or other areas but in my experience people we come up to
me without having known me before and will introduce themselves to me
and then tell me their life story and all their problems . . . and that is a
little weird that people seek counsel from a 20 year old stranger from
another country who they have known for 5 minutes . . .</div>
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I think it is weird that we the
missionaries who do not have a whole lot of life experience have the
trust and confidence of members and investigators and strangers and
that these people want our help to fix their lives.</div>
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Jonathon one of our
investigators told us, 'I do not want to get married. I have never
like the idea and have never thought of myself as being married.' We
taught the plan of salvation and I shared D&C 131 or 132 (i
don't remember which) (and this is not something I would advise sharing
usually but I don't know, I felt it) which says in the celestial kingdom there are
3 degrees and to obtain the highest we have to be married. The next
time we came to the house he told us 'Elders i am thinking about getting
married and I have created a plan to save money to buy a ring.' So that
was really cool.</div>
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Yah, its the vida misional. Doing what has to be done. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-85736240548930075582014-07-28T01:36:00.002-07:002014-07-28T01:36:37.072-07:00what was it like when Colombia was playing in the world cup? 4 of us in the house
of a member watching the first game of colombia in the world cup ....
and something else i do not remember what the other picture was<br />
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It had been a long time since i had used electric stairs I had forgotten
how to do it.<br />
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we found this house that looks like a castle (it IS a castle) in our area
so we were like hey lets take pictures. and then I was like hey lets
play on it . . . soooo we did <br />
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This is a shout out to the Strong family. I've scaled their walls a few times! Ha!<br />
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this is a party that we had with an exploding candle <br />
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The first foto is the guy whose whiskey we stole jajajaja. He is a little
crazy and he also likes making us hamburgers . . . I feel like we have a
pretty good relationship (notice the ankle weight?)<br />
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the second is our district... I hate suits<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-12875745791061884122014-07-28T01:17:00.002-07:002014-07-28T01:17:37.886-07:00Pay attention in Mission Prep Class!<div class="base-card-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406529129155_272589">
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I am still alive. Today is the day of transfers. I didn't get
transferred, still in Cucuta. But my comp did get transferred. He's going to Bogota so he has a long bus ride ahead of him. </div>
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I am writing
you guys a short email to update you on some stuff. Something that I thought was cool happened this week. A long time ago
in my missionary prep class the teacher told a story about a man who
felt like he couldnt recieve forgiveness for some of the things that he
had done and then missionaries shared with him Alma 24:10. A thought
came into my mind, 'hey you should write that scritpure down because you
are going to use it one day to help someone.' And this week I did. We had
the same problem. We were teaching someone who felt like he couldn't
recieve forgiveness (granted he has the right to think that) but I felt
the impression to share the scripture that I had been saving for a
couple years and so I did. And it helped him. That was pretty cool. </div>
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Also I now have my camera and my notebook and all that stuff so that is good. Last Saturday we had a baptism of a man named Adelson. He is an older man,
60 something yrs old. He was a preacher/father/priest in another church
for 30 yrs. He was then dignosed with cancer. He has had it for 7 years
now. Recently he began to pray that angels would come and visit him
and teach him more of the word of God and converse with him and things
like that. Not to long after that we, the missionaries, showed up. We
gave him a Book of Mormon and he began to read it and study it and
compare it with the Bible. When he got to Jacob 5 he
told us he had a great feeling of unexpilicable joy. And knew that the
book is true. (and I thought that surely must be the spirit because I
have never had a feeling of joy reading Jacob 5) </div>
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After his baptism he shared
his testimony with the members that were present and said through his
diligent study he could testify to all of us that the Book of Mormon is
true and that he had read it and that he knows it is from God. And that
he feels really bad that he spent 30 yrs of his life leading people
through false paths with a false doctrine. I know he has a great peace
knowing that if he dies he will die in the truth. </div>
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So that was all pretty cool</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-44024964136792054332014-07-28T01:06:00.001-07:002014-07-28T01:06:09.969-07:00Denfender of the Truth (Part 2)<div class="base-card-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406529129155_253195">
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voy a hablar acerca; cristo es jehova otro día, porque no tengo mi librita conmigo, que tiene todas las referencias. <br /></div>
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We
can become like God. everything God does here is a symbol for how
things will be in heaven. We can become like our parents here and in the
same way that we grow in grace and wisdom and ability and become like
our earthly parents here is, in a way, how we can become like our Heavenly Father. The scriptures say that we are gods ye children of an
almighty god (psalms 82:6) and if we are children, then we are heirs and
joint heirs with Christ and we will be glorified together if we follower
his path (Romans 8:16-17 and Galatians 4:7). So we can receive everything
that Christ received. What did Christ receive? He received
everything. The scriptures actually say that he is Gods equal
(Philippians 2:5-6). So if we are joint heirs with Christ it means we too
can receive everything or become like god</div>
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So some people might
say, 'aww so there are many gods for you guys; so you guys are polytheists.' Ummm well God is a title not a name (because God has a name... its not Jehovah, that's Christs name) and it is a title that represents creation,
all powerful, from eternity to eternity. It is a title that more
than one can have (PSALMS 82:1). But for us there is one God the father
and one lord Christ so no we are not polytheists (1 Corth 8: 5-6) <br />
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Here are some ways that you can present the Book of Mormon with the Bible.</div>
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mathew
7:15-20 Christ says beware of false prophets and then he says that we
can know whether or not a prophets is a true prophet by their fruits. Some people might say nope there wont ever be more prophets, the time of
prophets is over. If that is the case how come Christ didnt say that
there would not be more prophets? How come instead he gave us the way to
descern if someone is a true prophet? Because more prophets will come
and we need to know who they are if we want to follow God. So after this
scripture you can explain that the Book of Mormon is the fruit of Joseph Smith and that if you want to know if Joseph Smith is a prophet
you only have to examine his fruit, the Book of Mormon. And then they
can ask God james 1:5</div>
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You can also use john 7:17 if you want to know if these
things come from God or come from man. Test them or try them out and the
truth will be revealed. So if they want to know if the Book of Mormon is
doctrine of God or man they need to test it. A good way to test a
book is to read it.<br />
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John 21:25 the last verse in the Gospel of John says that Christ did many other things that he didn't record and that if all of
them were written it would fill up many many many books. So that means
that not all of the things that He did are in the Bible . . . you can then
ask if they would like to read a book that has more of the acts of Christ and show the Book of Mormon where Christ came and visited the Americas. You can explain that the Book of Mormon has acts of Christ
that are not in the bible and the same Bible says that it isn't able to
say everything that Christ did. <br />
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so . . . </div>
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mathew
12:25 a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. So you can show
the Book of Mormon and say if it invites us to come to Christ it can be
from satan because if satan was inviting us to come to Christ his
kingdom would be divided. Then you can show some scriptures Hel 5:12
2Ne 2:8 2Ne25:26 Omni 1:26. You can say, 'look it invites us to come
to Christ and we know that satan isn't going to give us that invitation.
so if its not from the devil who is it from?'</div>
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Love, Elder Rallison<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-62704415587924468532014-07-28T00:51:00.002-07:002014-07-28T00:51:12.242-07:00Defender of the Truth (part 1)'si hace esto, el señor le bendecirá y usted se convertirá en un defensor y un mensajero de la verdad.' Manual Misional pg 4<br />
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So
the point of this message is to help prepare to be a
defender of the truth. Mind you I say defender because attacking for the
cause of the truth, more often than not, (in my experience) doesn't help
a whole lot. But also there are a lot or erroneous ideas so we need to
know how to cortar cabezas (but heads) if we have to. </div>
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apostasía 1</div>
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that Adam and Eve were not the first people or the only people here in the
world. that god simple put them in the garden but when they left there
were other people in the world. I do not know were religious people get
this idea... but the do not get it from the scriptures. If someone
shares this idea with you, you can slap them with GEN 3.20 and explain
that Eve is the mother of all living. Sooooo there were in fact not
other people because all the other people came from her. </div>
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apostasía 2 </div>
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That Christ in heaven does not have a body. First you can explain what death
is. Physical death is the separation of the body and the spirit. JAMES
2.26 in this scripture he does a comp that faith if it doesn't have works
is dead just as the body if it doesn't have a spirit. So a body without a
spirit is a dead body. We know that Christ will never die again
ROMANS 6.9 also there is a good scripture in ACTS 1.9-11 that says Christ will come to the earth in the same way he left the earth with a
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apostasía 3</div>
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María la altisma virgen... la bendita virgen</div>
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it
is not OK to pray or worship or incline ourselves (a.k.a. pray to) to any
kind of image or thing that is not god EXODUS 20.3-5 but some people
then say its not that we are worshiping Mary, it is just that she is a
mediator or intercessor . . . OK, lets go to 1 TIM 2.5 that says there is one
mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ. Only Jesus can be
our mediator because only he paid the price of our sins and only through
him can we be saved. That is why he said I am the light and the way
JOHN 14.6 you could also just say show me in the Bible an example of
someone praying to Mary . . . because there isn't one in there. And there are some people that believe Mary was a virgin forever . . . because the catholic
church teaches that sometimes. But it is apostacy. MAT 1.25 and mateo
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apostasía 4 </div>
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That wine must be used in the sacrament. Read the following scriptures.</div>
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1 corth 10.16 y 21 1corth 11.23-25 mateo 26.26-28 y luke 22.20</div>
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Where
in the scriptures do they use the word wine . . . they don't. And they
say that it is not the wine which is the symbol of the covenant but
the cup. Why is the cup the symbol of the covenant of Christs blood? I
personally think it is because LUKE 22.41-44 when Christ asked God if it
is possible pass this bitter CUP from him. And he said this directly
before he bled from every pore. So it is not the wine that is the symbol
because it actually doesn't say wine in the Bible it say cup which is the
symbol. </div>
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apostasía 5</div>
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That
after we are baptized or we accept Christ we automatically receive the Holy Ghost that it will just descend upon us. So there is a story about
about Philip, a missionary who was preaching and had success and baptized
people. But what happened is after he baptized them they didn't magically
receive the Holy Ghost because it doesn't happen like that. So when
the apostles heard that the people had been baptized they sent Peter and John (those who had the authority to baptized with fire, because they had received the authority from Christ) and they give the gift of the Holy Ghost through the laying on of hands ACTS 8. 12-17. There more
scriptures that you can show about the Holy Ghost through the laying on
of hands ACTS 13.3 ACTS 19.2-6 2TIM 1.6</div>
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pensamiento espiritual. </div>
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the
importance of being perfect. Is it important to be perfect or what does
being perfect mean? That would probably be a better place to start. I am
going to define it as being without sin. Is that important? Yes
because no impure thing can dwell with god 1 NE 10.21 and 3NE 27.19
(also 1 corth 6.9-10 and efe 5.5). In the same way that light and
darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time impurity cannot
dwell with purity. God and all those in his kind and his kingdom are
pure if we want to be there we have to be also. We have to be 100
percent pure or perfect. God has high expectations. He expects and
demands perfection. MAT 5.48 3NE 12.48 EFE 5.1 3NE 27.27. It is a
commandment to be perfect and if it is a commandment, it is possible NE
3.7 and 1COR 10.13. If you don't think you can do it is because your a
wuss. But it is a requirement. No se puede argumentar. but hey God gives
us tools to help us reach the high expectations that He has set. Find
out what they are EFE 4.11-12 and 2TIM 3.16-17 and read this invatation MORONI 10 32</div>
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That
is all I have time for. The church is true... Elder Rallison is showing
it. And God showed it to Elder Rallison. Tune in next week for
more defensor de la verdad</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652482354324981300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1867055673857144774.post-11622051798533317282014-07-28T00:33:00.004-07:002014-07-28T00:33:50.270-07:00Baptisms in Cucuta26 May 2014 <br />
So I will tell you a little bit about our baptisms. One of the people we
baptized is Mariana. She is a young woman and is 18 years old. She had
the missionary lessons 2 years ago but her mom did not allow her to get
baptized. When she turned 18, one of the first things she did was set a date
with us.<br />
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She has a friend who is a member and her friend has been letting us
teach the lessons in her house because Mariana's mom still doesn't want
anything to do with the church. but Mariana said, 'well I am 18 and I am
old enough to make my own decisions and so I want to be baptized '. . . and
she was. We have been teaching her now for about a month. We wanted her
to come to church again and recieve the lessons again and to talk to her
mom.</div>
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That was one of the bigger problems that we had was her mom.But
one day Mariana came to us and she said, 'Elders I told my mom. I said a
prayer and all of the sudden I got brave and went and talked to her and
she said that she would respect my decision.' So that was really
awesome. Her mom did not come to the
baptism but after the baptismal service Mariana bore her testimony and
testified that she new the church was true. </div>
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And so do I. Love, Elder Rallison</div>
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