After a wonderful Sunday Sacrament meeting, attended by friends and family, Elder Bryan was taken to the airport for his 1:30 pm flight to SLC. But, not before some old time fair well and picture taking. We will follow up soon with a picture post. Oh, question. What should a missionary not leave home without? Yes you guessed it, he left his scriptures behind. They'll be mailed to the MTC tomorrow. In addition his new slacks came back and we found out today that they were hemmed to short. Thank goodness he they were not too short, which will give him hem room and there is time to have them fixed.
How was your day?
Current Location and Address
Puerto Rico, San Juan - East Mission
Puerto Rico, San Juan - Mission
Adjuntas, PR 00601
Mark 1:4 and 9
4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
Christ was not baptized for the remission of sins because he had none. But, as Nephi recounts, he was baptized for the following reasons:
(1) As a token of humility before the Father;
(2) As a covenant that he would keep the commandments;
(3) As a prelude to receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost;
(4) To gain entrance to and be saved in the kingdom of God, for no one, not even the Son of God, can so obtain without baptism; and
(5) As a pattern and an example for all men, and so that he could say: “Follow thou me” and also, “He that is baptized in my name, to him will the Father give the Holy Ghost, like unto me; wherefore, follow me, and do the things which ye have seen me do.” (See 2 Ne. 31:5–12.)
Bruce R. McConkie, “A Man Called John,” New Era, May 1984, 4
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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