Daddy.. 4/29/09

from Corrine Christison m

date Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:41 PM

subject daddy!

DADDY!!!

i wont have time to hand write too many letters this week so i thought i would just send you a quick email!

i love you and hope that you are having a wonderful time down there in north carolina! its finally warming up here and its becoming springtime!!  we go running every morning down to the sacred grove and walk through it. everyday it gets greener and greener.  it is amazing to me how our father in heaven, through his son, created an earth which renews itself every year. we can take such an example from mother earth in that this spring season, we can take the opportunity to renew ourselves and our covenants.  i spend my time teaching non members about the covenants made at baptism, and in the temples and i get the opportunity to strengthen members testimonies of those covenants theyve already made.  so father of mine, i would encourage you to think about those covenants you made at baptism those many years ago, you covenanted to (as told to us in d&c 20) take up on you the name of christ, repent of all your sins, have a determination to serve him to the end, and to manifest by your works that you have recieved that witness by the holy ghost.  i know that you turly were willing to do all those things when you decided to be baptized.  and im so glad that you have such a strong testimony because i will never forget the first christmas we spent with you after you moved out and you said " i never want you kids to doubt that i dont know this church is true" i know you know that it is true and that has been such an anchor to me to hold on to.  but, life gets hard doesnt it? it isnt always perfect and we are promised in helaman 5:12 that "WHEN (notice it doesnt say if) the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, WHEN all his hail and his might storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall".  that rock is our savior and the best way to continually build that foundation on him is to remember those covenants we made to him and strive to keep them!

love you and cant wait to talk to you in less than two weeks! YAY!

sis c