Snelsons in Africa!: -"let us repent" (Alma 12:37)-Conversion‏

During our recent training, Sister Clayton quoted this poem:

"Earths crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elder Ellis shared his secret for being humble: "I'm just as good as anyone else, but no better."

We often discuss the topic of conversion.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks explained the difference between a testimony and conversion. "Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.”

― Dallin H. Oaks. (Quoted in Kenneth Johnson, "Coming to Know for Ourselves," Ensign, July, 2008, 29)

The first record of Lamanite converts is found in Alma 23:4-18.

"And as sure as the Lord liveth, so sure as many as believed, or as many as were brought to the knowledge of the truth, through the preaching of Ammon and his brethren.....I say unto you, as the Lord liveth, as many of the Lamanites as believed in their preaching, and were converted unto the Lord, never did fall away. For they became a righteous people;" (Alma 23:6-7)

They believed [testimony] {"the knowledge of the truth, yea, to the knowledge of their Redeemer." Mosiah 27:36} and were converted which resulted in them never falling away. Conversion is to become and they became a righteous people.

"Therefore, we have named all the cities of the Lamanites in which they did repent and come to the knowledge of the truth, and were converted." (Alma 23:15)

Photos of the week.....

These were taken on October 20th, during the visit of Elder Clayton and Elder Ellis with their wives.

Birthday party after the baptism of 8 year old Stacy Dickie-the rare treat of popcorn!

Long line of people waiting to buy electricity credit. Most of these people come weekly and buy less than $5 worth at a time. The government owned electric company (EDM) gives a 30% discount for anyone that purchases at least $66 per time, sadly, these poor people are never able to save this large amount....