Brotherly Love #7

 Hey Everyone!

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This week at the MTC has been great! On Christmas night the Truman Brothers came to perform for us Missionaries. After the last song, Elder Huish and I yelled "one more song" until others caught on, so we got a sweet encore... and we may have gotten a little rowdy. 

We continue to run and lift which has kept my spirits high. Mongolian continues to improve and on friday we did an english fast from 1:30-9:00pm.

Anyway, just 4 weeks left so we are on the home stretch! Mongolia has no idea what's coming for them!

Spiritual thought

During my scripture study this week I was struck by the teachings of Paul in Romans. His commentary of how to treat others sums up what loving thy neighbor as thyself looks like. Here is a short summary of what I liked. 

1- Avoid making judgments of others because Chirst atoned from them as much as he did for you. 2- Be merciful to others, and do so with a glad heart. 3- Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love. 4- Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those that mourn. 5- Don't think of yourself as better than anyone else. "For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one belongs to one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the agrace that is given to us"

This is the strength of the saints, their love and fellowship of one another. I can't wait to share this with the people of Mongolia. 

Elder Quinton L. Cook of the quorum of the 12 said this on Christmas morning at the MTC... "If you love God you will keep his commandments, and If you love your neighbor you will serve them".

James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

I know that if we increase our love for God and our fellow man, we will find it a delight to live a life of faith, compassion, and service. 

Love,

Elder Bateman