I think I have been remembering the importance of Love this week.
As a District Leader, one of the things I have to do is give a training once a
week for the other missionaries to help them all be better missionaries. This
week I was going to talk about something completely different but I didn't feel
right while I was preparing that topic. So I decided to talk about Love and
Charity.
I think for a lot of people, the missionary work that Mormons do
may seem really strange, if not rather snobby. It may seem to some people that
basically we go out house to house and try to explain to people why we are
right and they are wrong. While I would agree that this is a distortion
of facts, I can't say that this explanation of missionary work is completely
false, either. We certainly don't go out telling people that all churches
are true if we don't do bad stuff. But what makes missionary work not snobby
and prudish is the love. We are doing this because we love these people.
We know that what we have, they need. I love these people as people and as children
of God, but also as I get to know them, I love them for the people they are.
And because I love them, I want them to hear what I have to say. Because
I know they need it, all of them. Because I love them, I cannot lie and
tell you that I don't desire that every single person I know was a Mormon.
I hope you all have a good week. I will. I love you
all!
Elder Russell
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