"Man is time going by fast. it feels like i was just e mailing yesterday! this week we have been helping a family prepare for baptism. Their last name is the Milingers, they are so ready. This week we ran into a wall with them though. As my companion and i were waiting for them to come to church, the husband (Jim) walked in without his wife and we asked where she was, he told us she wasn't feeling good and that they read on a web site called Mormon secrets some stuff that disturbed him about the church. Right as he said that the bishop announced over the congregation that the Milingers were going to get baptized. As soon as that happened Jim looked at both of us and said i don't think the baptism will be happening on the 16th. My heart dropped! We talked to him and try to clear things up and MAN he had some questions that i have never even thought of! It is crazy to me what people put on websites to throw down on our church? Where do they find time to think of all of this? But we got most of it cleared up and he is still well on his way for baptism this upcoming weekend. We set up a time to talk to his wife this week because she is super worried. (Please pray for the family they need all of your prayers.) In my studies I have pondered and read allot about sacrifices. Reading about Abraham really motivates me to give up my worldly desires, he is a hero to me for how courageous of a man he was to god! Someone who had great faith. as i studied about that and Jesus dying for our sins and fulfilling the law of Moses, I pondered about us not having to sacrifice as they did but that doesn't mean sacrifices are over. As Jesus came to the Native Americas he taught us that we needed to come to him with a broken heart and contrite spirit. That is most defiantly a sacrifice that we have to make. By giving up what is dear to us for the lord, thus humbling us as we sacrifice our worldly wants for the lord, giving of ourselves and coming to him, showing him we love him. Through making these sacrifices and also making covenants, As we remember our covenants they wont compel us but be as a nature of who we are becoming. an example is the commandments we have to follow, they seem to most people a rule. it is a sacrifice to have to follow them but as we do so willingly it humbles us, its hard. but we are giving up our wants or what we seem compelled to do for our father. and as we do it taking upon ourselves the name of Christ it becomes a habit and we see a change of heart, over time we will have no need or desire to go back because we realize this is so much better!.. i love my father, and the light he gives to all of us. He wants to bless us! I testify that is true! as we sacrifice our wants our mind set will change from us thinking "I CANT AFFORD TO DO THAT" to " I CANT AFFORD NOT TO DO THAT" we cannot afford NOT to receive our fathers blessings. we truly do need them. i love all of you with all of my heart. always smile and be a light to everyone you see!"