Forgiveness is a Coupon to Heaven

from email dated July 9, 2012


HHEEEELLLLLLOOOOO (Mrs. Doubtfire voice)

How are you my sweet, sweet family? I am doing well. It has been a good week. We have interviews with President Roney and it was great. I learned so much from him already. I know that he is truly inspired and that he is meant to be the mission President for the France Lyon Mission at this very time. We also obviously met his wife and four of their children, out of 8. Three will be staying with them the whole time and then their other son that is here will be going back to Utah in a couple weeks, to BYU. They have a daughter on a mission in Paris, and a son in the MTC who will be going to the Barcelona mission. Kind of funny that they are in bordering missions to their parents! Hopefully if I already told you that. So, I hate to admit it but I was kind of nervous to meet this big CEO/ Founder of NuSkin. But he is wonderful. He has so much love for this work, for his family, and for the Lord. He will be a great President for our mission.

He taught us something that I just love, well many things but something I want to share. Its the subject line of this email. He was talking about loving others and the importance of it. And then he was talking about forgiveness. And he said that we should be HAPPY when someone does something wrong towards us because that gives us the opportunity to forgive them. And when we forgive others the Lord is going to forgive us. He said that when someone does something bad that it is great because its like they are giving us a coupon to heaven. But it is so essential that we truly forgive and do not hold grudges and things like that or else the Lord will not be able to forgive us! Don't you just love that! I want all of your to remember this when someone does something unforgiveable against you. And then I want you to forgive them, because the bigger the crime, the bigger chance you have of getting into Heaven. You know what i mean? Super cool. It was a wonderful and uplifting time with the Roneys and the other missionaries. I always LOVE being around other missionaries. It just brings such happiness.

Now for the rest of my week. It was good. We still dont have any one new to work with and continue to try to find people. As President Murdock would say, they are hiding in the nooks and crannies, or the holes in the rocks. The elect are there! I know it, if not there would not be missionaries here to do this work. So therefore, I will continue to work to find these people!

Today we are going to a castle. Pretty cool. They have a lot of them here. Well maybe not a lot but more than Geneva. I will have to send pictures next week. My camera broke in the part that connects the usb to the computer so I have to put my memory card into Sr. Echols camera in order to load stuff onto the computer. Plus I dont have any new pictures for this week. Well maybe I do from conference but those will just have to wait.

Something that I loved from my studies this week was going through my patriarchial blessing and listing the promises, admonitions and warnings. EVERYONE DO THIS. You will see just how blessed you really are. Its super awesome. I just kept listing more and more promises and blessings it was so cool.

I should be going but I love you all and wish you a wonderful week. Keep calm and carry on!

Soeur Addis

P.S. I was studying the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost also this week, you should try it. Its cool to find out things we never knew about this great gift God has given us.