It's our Story

Wassupp??!

How are my absolutely favoritest people in the whole world? Thank you so much for your emails and all the love that you guys show to me. 

Elder Lopes and I will be staying here in Ubirajara for the next transfer... making this his 4th transfer here. No changes this time around. I am excited!! The work is coming along... I think that is why President decided to leave us here. This area hasn't had much success in the past.

We had the privilege of watching the message from President Nelson. The wi-fi and translation was awful.. so I didn't get much out of it, but the Spirit was so strong! The 3 are going to do amazing things. They all have such a sweet spirit and they really radiate the happiness that the Gospel is. I love our Leadership in the church! (: But it was weird.. when I first saw  the new presidency the first thing that popped into my head was ONE (Oaks, Nelson, Eyring). I don't know why it popped into my head, but it really made me think about why that would have significance.. and the first thing that I realized was that we are ONE as a church. We are all working together as ONE.. with one purpose.. and one goal. Also.. I really thought about how there truly is ONE person that leads this church. Although we have had and will have more prophets... it is neat to think that a Prophet is just an instrument to connect the world to the Heavens. We truly do have a loving Heavenly Father who leads and guides our church today. How neat is that!! Just think about it... pretty eat and such a blessing! So grateful for prophets and other leadership in the church.. (:

I would just like to end with a scripture in the Bible that I really like. It is in Revelations 20:12 ..."and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works."

I really like this scripture! We literally are writing our own little stories in our own ´books´. We are writing our stories for us individually. Each of us has our own book, and our own pen. All of the things that we do here are written in our ´books of life´ and will be opened up on the day of judgement. We will be judged for exactly what we did here on the Earth and not for the things that someone else did. It will not matter what anyone else did.. Just all of the things that we ´wrote in our books´. This made me think about the book that I was writing right now and made me think about if it was a good enough book for the highest kingdom and greatest gift of glory hereafter. It is always nice to look and see what we are doing and adjust accordingly if we need. I am so grateful that we are judged for the things WE do. I am grateful that we have the opportunity to prove to our Heavenly Father who we are, and what we want, and who we want to become.. through our desires, actions, works, and `stories`. I am so grateful for the things that I am learning here and the opportunity that I have to grow and strengthen my faith in Christ and Our Heavenly Father. Truly it is a blessing and a privilege! I love and miss you like crazy!

Love, your happy Sky...Elder Abel