Snelsons in Africa!: Humility required to obtain Sanctfication-Chad & Kalie Hind engaged!!

Hello there....The big news is that on October 31st, while in the Redwood forest, Chad proposed to Kalie Hind and she accepted!! Currently, they are planning on a wedding the end of January 2015!! We are very excited for them. You will love Kalie and be amazed at how she and Chad complement each other.

We returned late Friday night from our first and last couples conference! There are now three (3) couples serving in Beira; three (3) couples in Maputo and one (1) couple serving in Swaziland. The seven (7) couples, plus the mission president and his wife, met in Swaziland for a conference/retreat.

As of about May this year, Swaziland was added to our mission. The country appears more of a 2nd world country compared to Mozambique as a 3rd world. We stayed in a beautiful resort (Summerfield Resort) for two (2) nights and then the last night we stayed in the Hlane Animal park. The cabins in this park do not have electricity, but they use kerosene lamps which work very well. For the first time we saw lions in the wild. I will include some photos.

Elder Bruce R. McConkie said: “all progress in spiritual things is conditioned upon the prior attainment of humility....To be sanctified is to become clean, pure, and spotless; to be free from the blood and sins of the world; to become a new creature of the Holy Ghost, one whose body has been renewed by the rebirth of the Spirit. Sanctification is a state of saintliness, a state attained only by conformity to the laws and ordinances of the gospel. The plan of salvation is the system and means provided whereby men may sanctify their souls and thereby become worthy of a celestial inheritance." (Bruce R. McConkie, MD, p. 370 & 675.)

C.S. Lewis said: "The Christian way is different: harder and easier. Christ says 'Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don't want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked—the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours" (Mere Christianity, 167)

I love you,

Dad

Photos of the week.....

#1- Kalie and Chad driving through Nevada when they faced time with us!!