Amazing week and transfers are right around the corner

Hello all of you amazing people! This has been a really good week for me and I can't tell you how much of a relief it has been for me. I've been taught so much and I've been really blessed by the Lord. I'm so thankful for his loving kindness and for all the support that he has shown me and the wonderful support that he has given me. I also thank all of you back home for all the prayers and the love that you have also expressed toward me I can not thank you enough. I have really felt all of it this week, and I'm also thankful for the opportunity that I was given to go to the temple and feel of God's Grace and of the arms of his Grace and Mercy that you feel when going into such a sacred place as that.

This week was actually quite uneventful....SORRY!!! I wish that I had more to report on but nothing super exciting happened this week.

We had LeGrand R. Curtis, which is the church historian for the whole church, meet with the entire mission and talked to us about the power of the Book of Mormon and the wonderful blessings that it brings from reading it's pages. I personally pulled a lot from it and I really felt the spirit. But other than that...not much else happened. OOps!!!!!!!!! I almost forgot about yesterday

Yesterday we helped the humanitarian center here in Salt Lake City put together 20,000 meals to deliver to hungry families around places that weren't specified. But we had all of us Elders doing that last night and I will say that it was pretty fun! We all had a competition to see which team could put together 4 boxes the fastest. Which was fun to get a little motivation and some friendly competition. But that was pretty fun and very enjoyable to provide a service to all of those families that are in need.

Spiritual Thought: So this week I'm going to be pulling from Alma 5:21 

21 I say unto you, ye will know at that day that ye cannot be saved for there can no man be saved except his garments are washed white; yea, his garments must be purified until they are cleansed from all stain, through the blood of him of whom it has been spoken by our fathers, who should come to redeem his people from their sins.  

So there are a few things that I get from this scripture but I'm only going to go over one of the things that I think is important to cover.

So it's the importance of going through the Repentance Process. The world wants you to think that you can just take the sacrament each week and then you will be fine, without thinking about it or even trying to change at all...NOT TRUE! In order to be able to feel repentant and feel of remission of your sins...you must pivot away from it 100% and proceed forward with a desire to change. Knowing that you did something wrong, acknowledging it, and praying to receive strength to change and asking for forgiveness every single day. Then using the power and strength that he gives you to stop, repent, and become clean. 

That is one of the greatest gifts that he has given to us. Because of His sacrifice, we are able to be made clean through the mercy and grace of God. Then we can be purified and press forward doing our very best to stand pure at the judgment bar of God. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

You are all Fabtabulous people! 

I love all of you amazing people so much! Do what you can each day to have an amazingly Fabtabulous Day!

Stay Foxy!

Elder Wyatt Gatlin