Charity

Dear Family and Friends,

So through the week.. I have been thinking of what i could share with everyone this week.. I know i miss a week.. so please forgive me.. Through the week we have been finding and finding.. for those that know.. finding is key to missionary work.. as it says in Preach My Gospel, "Nothing happens in missionary work until you find someone to teach." It really is true.. as well as in anything we do in life.. whether we are looking for a job, house, phone service, etc... there's heaps.. And something that came to mind.. that will help us achieve these things that we are looking for in our life or in my case.. missionary work... it comes from the Bible.. 1 Corinthians 13...

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not ^charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of ^prophecy, and understand all ^mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the ^poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 ^{charity buffered} long, and is ^kind; charity ^denviethnot; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself ^aunseemly, seeketh not her ^bown, is not easily ^provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in ^ainiquity, but rejoiceth in the ^truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never ^afaileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a ^aglass, ^bdarkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth ^afaith, ^bhope, ^ccharity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

So this is what came to mind.. "CHARITY"... Without this charity.. we are nothing as Paul states.. so as we apply this charity.. or this "pure love of Christ" that Mormon talks about.. we will be able to accomplish the plans that the Lord has in store for us.. .I am grateful and can say that everyday.. when i pray for this charity.. That i know and see all my brothers and sisters anywhere i go.. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the Lord.. 

Elder Tiatia