Hi there! (to be said like Doug from UP!)

Dear Peeps I love,

 

HAHA! I think that everything is better when there is laughter at the beginning, so, HAHA!

 

Anywho, it's been a cold week. Yeah, it's really cold here, but just because the humidity takes the cold straight to your bones. It's Crazy. But I love it. 'Tis quite amazing. But it's been a good week. We talked to a whole load of people, including this one woman who tried condemning me to Hell because I'm preaching that Prophets are on the earth today (yeah, pretty sure she's crazy, and also, pretty sure that she doesn't have the power or authority to condemn someone. That poor woman.), but it was good. Also, I met an American! But he wasn't very friendly. My countryman! What's gotten hold of your heart?! Knowest thou not the treasure that I long to share with the and thy brethren, and your wives, and your children, and your flocks, and your fatlings, and all manner of beasts of the field?!?! I guessest not. haha guessest isn't a word.

 

But really it's been a good week. As I studied this week about knowledge, I started to also think about wisdom, and the difference between wisdom. One morning, I was reading in Mosiah 12, where Abinadi is preaching against the wicked priests of King Noah, and in v. 27, he says, "Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding; therefore ye have not been wise." So when you apply your heart to the knowledge that you have, and therefore apply that knowledge to your heart, your understanding and knowledge becomes wisdom. As great as an attribute as knowledge is, I know that the Saviour wants us to turn that knowledge into wisdom. So BE WISE! What can I say more?

 

Well, the Librarian isn't in a good mood, so i'm going to go baptise her, but I want you all to know that Jesus Lives, and that no matter what so crazy people say, there IS a living prophet on the earth today, and his name is Thomas S. Monson. I know that if we follow his counsel, we will not go astray.

 

I love you all, and I want you to remember this Christmas season (not Holiday season, but CHRISTMAS season. It's not the holidays, IT'S CHRISTMAS!) that Christ lives and He loves us all! I love you all as well! just not as perfectly as He does. But pretty close! I love you!!!

 

Love,

Elder Ashcraft!!!!!!

 

P.S. CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING BAPTISED, PIEFACE!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!