Pagudpud pa rin

Work here in Pagudpud has been pretty much the same my entire time here. We've done lots of work and lots of finding new people. We talk to lots of people every day but finding those that are open-hearted has been the difficult part. Recently we did find someone named Janet Carbonel who seems very open-hearted. She recently had a very hard experience with her son that got in a motorcycle wreck and she wants to find hope somewhere. Lucky for her we have the answer for her, Jesus Christ. She didn't attend church this week but she seems to have great desire and potential to progress.

Aside from the normal experiences here in Pagudpud it is pretty crazy that Caylor just returned home last week from his mission in Iowa. I can't wait to see him again when I finally return home as well. I greatly look up to him as my older brother.

This week during my personal study I found a couple scriptures that I like in the Book of Mormon that are connected doctrinally. 

2 Nephi 10:24 - 

 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.

Mosiah 3:19 -

 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the fHoly Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

I like both of these scriptures because they focus on one of the most important parts of the doctrine of the gospel. They refer to repentance and the atonement.  We as mortals are naturally an enemy to God. We are a fallen people and need to be reconciled to God. The word reconcile means "to restore to friendship or harmony" or "to make consistent or congruous." That reconciliation is our goal here on earth. We are imperfect and often fail to make the right decisions. We are far from Him but this, our life, is the time of our probation and preparation (Alma 34:32). One of my favorite titles of God's great plan for us is the "Plan of Redemption." Part of this redemption is submitting to the will of the father in all aspects of our lives in order to have harmonious consistency with what God desires for us. We know we've accomplished this once we desire to do nothing other than that of God's will specifically. Once our purpose is the same as His in everything we do we know that the Lord will have 100% trust in us and will give us great power to do good(Helaman10:4-5).