HEY HEY HEY,
ITS SKINNY PAYNE! hahaha that was dumb... ok haha
What is this I hear of
another dog I can eat when I get home, yes! Well this week has been
good nothing to note yet other than I gotta chance to stop by and have
dinner with Justin and Crystal. They were super excited and super
nice and the food was awesome (though it made me super trunky because i
miss food like that). It was a super good time and we had a super good
lesson too, well I felt it went well you will have to ask them about it.
haha You can be my insider haha.
Well this week was kind of normal,
outside of that, coming up on a new transfers next week so, sipwe iotek pwe
upwe chok nomnom non dededo south haha.
So I came across this cool
scripture the other day in my studies, it was Alma 41:12-13 me a era
The Payne's have a new pet dog (Cocoa needed a friend)...
"12 And
now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration to take a thing of a
natural state and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a
state opposite to its nature?
13 O, my son, this is not the case; but the meaning of the word restoration is to bring back again evil for
evil, or carnal for carnal, or devilish for devilish—good for that
which is good; righteous for that which is righteous; just for that
which is just; merciful for that which is merciful."
So
when I read this I had a thought that that is the reason that we call
it the RESTORATION of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because to restore
something is to bring it back in its natural state. Alma is referring to
the ressurrection and says that all of our body will be "restored" limb
for limb and joint for joint so we will be brought back to the way we
were before. This definition also applies to the gospel, it was brought
back word for word and doctrine for doctrine. Well I don't know if this
makes sense to any one else but for some reason it just clicked in my
head. Food for thought.
Well love you all very much!
Love,
Elder Jeff Payne
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