Post #3 of 5:

I love my family!

Monday, May 5, 2014

  

Everyone,

So... my week was rotten. It got hijacked by a crazy less-active family. I now understand why the white handbook says, "do not commit yourselves to a project that could become difficult to continue or could cause problems if you need to discontinue it." Let's just say that this family is super dysfunctional and they are all certifiably psychotic. It makes me so grateful for my own family. But, after helping them, the son now has a fighting chance to get reactivated in the church; so those three days were not wasted. Other than that nothing happened.

So, to fill up this email I'm going to share parts of my favorite conference talk from President Uchtdorf:

Sometimes we think of the Restoration of the gospel as something that is complete, already behind us—Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, he received priesthood keys, the Church was organized. In reality, the Restoration is an ongoing process; we are living in it right now. It includes “all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal,” and the “many great and important things” that “He will yet reveal.”2 Brethren, the exciting developments of today are part of that long-foretold period of preparation that will culminate in the glorious Second Coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ...

We are designed to soar freely through the heavens. We are not meant to be shackled to the earth, imprisoned in straitjackets of our own making...

There is too much at stake for us as individuals, as families, and as Christ’s Church to give only a halfhearted effort to this sacred work...

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all...

The Lord’s promise to His true priesthood holders is almost too grand to comprehend...

Let us be awake and not be weary of well-doing, for we “are laying the foundation of a great work,” even preparing for the return of the Savior...

I love you all and look forward to a better week than last.

Elder Cox