Alma 7:11-13

Hey all!!  This week was a huge breath of fresh air compared to the previous weeks.  So I'm feeling great!  So I discovered that now there's a google drive account associated with every myldsmail account, so I'm going to try to send videos!  That's the plan anyway, I might have to simplify it to a recording if it's still too slow, but we're actually going to save about 15 minutes of writing time and send the videos later in the chapel.  I talk about my whole week and everything in detail for 12 minutes so it's way better than the lame small emails hahaha.

Just in case the video doesn't work, I at least want to tell you that my new comp is Elder Kammerman from Kearns, Utah!  I was really excited to be training again, and I was secretly hoping to train another gringo because it's cool to train someone with the same cultural background so I was really excited to get him as my comp.  He's fantastic, he has a lot of desire to be a great missionary and be obedient and work hard so I'm really excited for the coming change.  He's been a lot of fun to talk to too, we've already gotten to know each other pretty well.  He's already taken 6 years of spanish classes so he already speaks pretty well, but he's still learning to understand.  It's hard to understand Chileans hahaha.

The rest of the normal stuff I'll leave up to the video or voice recording!  But I've been trying to think of a spiritual thought that would go along well with the past few weeks... but I'm still not really sure what to talk about.  I guess if there was anything that could encompass what I've been learning about, it would be Alma 7:11-13

I watched the scene of the atonement in the life of Christ videos this week, and for a tiny moment, I comprehended a tiny fraction of what His atonement was, the kind of suffering He suffered, and what that does for us now.  I understood that tiny fraction by really applying it to myself, thinking about how He suffered individually for me, how He suffered everything I have ever felt and will ever feel, and how He suffered for my sins, and has resultingly been able to offer me divine forgiveness, and because of that I don't have to feel that pain.  He did all of that because He loves me, and He did it for you, and all of us, because He loves us infinitely.  He suffered everything for all of us, and I cannot possibly comprehend it, but I can comprehend how He suffered for me, if only for a moment.  And because of that, I am eternally grateful.  I know that this is true, and I know that He lives, and that He loves us, and that His atonement is real.  We will never be alone in this life nor the life to come, because He truly took upon Him our afflictions.

I love you all, and I hope you all have a great week!

Love

Elder Fox