For I Know

Pozdrav! 


It was a good one this week, with service, teaching, Zone Conference, and insightful studies! 


I spent a lot of time this week doing family history (which is something I always struggled with getting motivated to do) based on a prompting I had a couple weeks ago. And it has been really rewarding. Besides learning about my own family, I have had opportunities to help others whose families come from Croatia. In particular, I am helping a lady from the states find records, translate documents, and locate grave sites for her great great grandparents, who lived near Rijeka! We are going to go to try and find the site next week! I love how family history and technology can connect people from across the world and through time!


Elder Alliud talked about a lot of things at the conference, but my favorite thing he said was about Nephi. Too often, when we read 1 Nephi 3:7, we focus on the "I will go and do" part and forget the words "for I know" which come after. I really love these three words. They are what set Nephi apart from his brethren. Laman and Lemuel "went and did", but they did so with murmuring because they didn't "know", or in other words they didn't have a testimony. When we can say "for I know", everything changes. We are able to go forward in faith and do anything the Lord asks. I love the power of a testimony and what it enables us to do on the Lord's behalf.


Feel free to email! Thank you for all your prayers, the work continues to move forward here in Rijeka! 


Elder Neil


Pictures (please don't share or post!)
-lots of food sorry, the boat doubles as a seafood restraunt and the lignje was fantastic! The other one was this really yummy potato dish from our neighbors
-ZC picture 
-service with one of our awesome members!




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