Sestra Madison Ratcliffe: Wait its Pday

Hi yall.

This week was all kinds of crazy.

but the funny thing is that I don't even feel like this week actually happened, if that makes sense probably not, but you know.

Well we started out the week wonderfully with a super cool man telling us that we have good data underground. Not knowing what he meant we dug deeper, come to find out he was talking about baptisms for the dead! Why yes good sir, we do have good data.

HAHAH.

I love it.

Then we found this group through our dear kind friends of the community to serve and we were able to spend a ton of time chopping down a ton of trees by the Castle to make a HUGE Cherry field, so that Trencin can take a bus up to do tours around the castle. and they are ALSO going to buy goats to do a petting zoo!

THEN THE WEEK REALLY JUST ESCAPES.

I know we were helping our member out in her garden and she fed us fried cheese and I only remember it, because that fried cheese was literally BOMB.

and then somehow we made it on a bus to Brno, where I again ditched my greenie for the day and headed to prague for some training.

THEN WE CAME BACK AND WATCHED CONFERENCE.

oh wow, wasn't conference just wonderful?

I really loved the talk by Bonnie L Oscarson
" Think for just a minute about the profound claims we make as a religion. We believe that the same Church Jesus Christ established while on the earth has been restored once again by a prophet called of God in our time and that our leaders hold the same power and authority to act in God’s name that ancient Apostles held. It is called the priesthood of God. We claim that through this restored authority, we can receive saving ordinances, such as baptism, and enjoy the purifying and refining gift of the Holy Ghost to be with us at all times. We have apostles and prophets leading and directing this Church through priesthood keys, and we believe that God speaks to His children through these prophets.We also believe that this priesthood power makes it possible to make covenants and receive ordinances in holy temples that will someday enable us to return to the presence of God and live with Him forever. We also claim that, through this power, families can be bound together for eternity when couples enter the new and everlasting covenant of marriage in sacred buildings that we believe are literally the houses of God. We believe that we can receive these saving ordinances not only for ourselves but also for our ancestors who lived on the earth without having the chance to participate in these essential saving ordinances. We believe we can perform ordinances for our ancestors by proxy in these same holy temples.
We believe that, through a prophet and the power of God, we have received additional scriptures, adding to the testimony of that in the Bible declaring that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.
We claim that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the kingdom of God and the only true Church on the earth. It is called the Church of Jesus Christ because He stands at the head; it is His Church, and all these things are possible because of His atoning sacrifice.
We believe that these distinguishing features can be found in no other place or organization on this earth. As good and sincere as other religions and churches are, none of them have the authority to provide the ordinances of salvation that are available in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
We have a knowledge of these things, but do we believe them?"

What a wonderful thought. We know that we claim all of these things, but are they engraven in our hearts that we know they are true. Do we desire to know by the power of the holy ghost that they are true?

It is so wonderful that we can know of assurity that these truth are true. and we can become truly converted unto the Lord.

S Laskou,

Sestra Ratcliffe

Ps. Sorry my email is pretty short we are going shopping and have a bus in like 10 minutes