New Year

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Hello family!!

Well I talked to you on Christmas so I dont have too much to say. Plus, I wrote a lot of personal emails this week which I think I actually might like better and may do more in the future.. I will discuss it with myself throughout this week haha.

But talking to yall on Christmas was the bestttttttttttttttttttt. Miss you so much. Love you so much. And I think the best thing I have EVER heard is that you are all coming home next year when I come home. Man I am soooo happy I will only spend one Christmas in the mission. It wasnt horrible, but nothing like being with family haha.

I am only going to share a quote from my personal study this week that had a big impression on me. Its found in the book Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmadge. It says 

Our Heavenly Father has a full knowledge of the nature and disposition of each of His children, and knowledge gained by long oberservation and experience in the past eternity of our primeval childhood, a knowledge compared with which that gained by earthy parents through mortal experience with their children is infinitesimally small. By reason of that surpassing knowledge, God reads the future of child and children, of men individually and of men collectively as communities and nations.. He knows what each will do under given conditions, and sees the end from the beginning. his foreknowledge is based on intelligence and reason. He foresees the future as a state which naturally and surely will be, not as one which must be because He has arbitrarily willed that it shall be. 

I LOVE that. Our situations are all different and we may wonder how we fairly have certain challenges when others dont, or visa versa. But we can have peace in knowing that our Father in Heaven knows us SO perfectly that our lives are molded exactly as they should be in order for us to progress into our divine potential. We dont understand it, but its true. He knows our potential, and like the quote says, he doesnt will it to be a certain way, he just knows us so perfectly to know what will or will not do. The next paragraph, which I would love to type up but dont have time, talks about or agency, a divine birthright. USE YOUR BIRTHRIGHT TO GAIN YOUR DIVINE POTENTIAL!! Thats my invitation. Have a personal inventory with your Father in Heaven through prayer and ask how your doing.. then be willing to act according to His will. Its better than your own and remember, he has that eternal perspective of you, so trust that its for your benefit. 

Have a great week!! Love you all more than words can describe. I am eternally grateful for yall. 

Almost ended that in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Maybe it was sacreligious to tell yall that. I dont know, its just habit. But I basically just bore my testimony, right? Bueno....

Hermana Roberts

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