Dear Family,
I am serving in the Arrak area which is on the complete other side of the island. In two weeks president wants me to be the new district leader which will be interesting for me because up until now I have always felt like the young new guy but now I feel like I’m going home in like a month. Everything just flies by and I know I will wake up one morning and not really comprehend that it’s time to go. I drive a big silver van (if you want to see it go to my Facebook cover photo).My companion is Elder Tentau and we are teaching Around 7 investigators right now. We should be baptizing one of them soon, a young girl. They are great and we are doing this and that and I love this area.
Right now I’m reading the Book of Mormon over again along with the institute book and answering the questions in each chapter in a journal. I’m early on in the Book of Mormon just finished with Nephi seeing all the visions he asked to see for better understanding. They are some cool chapters and really interesting, every time I get to the verse where it says he is forbidden to write more I wish he could have written more but then we would know things we don’t necessarily need to know or we wouldn’t be able to comprehend. One thing I have come to know very strongly is that the only thing we need to focus on in gospel study is the basics. We don’t need to know the deep and unimaginable because that’s what we get to learn when we get to the celestial kingdom, God has given us what we need to be able to receive eternal life, more would just get in the way of our progression. Because as humans we always want to know more till we get to the next big question, however God knew this and stopped where the basics end. Because that all we need to focus on in this life. The answer to why we are here is Moses 1:39. The answer to what we need to do here is Alma 34:32. As well as the commandments and doctrine we find in the rest of the standard works. I think people sometimes try to focus too much on the advanced doctrine or try to get the gospel to the fine detail (like things like caffeine or watching TV on Sundays and unnecessary made up details) but if we focus on the basic commandments and doctrines and fundamentals of the gospel and prepare ourselves for eternal life than that’s hard enough to do and is all God requires of us. Worrying about little things like if drinking Mt Dew while watching TV on Sunday or judging others on what they do because they don’t do it your way is not Christ like and unimportant to our progression. If we progress everyday and become better every day in preparing ourselves for the next life and gaining faith unlocking and using the potential our Heavenly Father gave us, even if it is baby steps then we are on the right track with our hands on the iron rod. Nothing more than the simple principles should ever matter more than doing that. Keeping the simple commandments and becoming more Christ like is hard enough without worrying and stressing ourselves out with trying to become smarter then the next guy in the gospel, or what other people do and live the gospel. I know this is true and that god gave us the things we need to get to where he wants us, no less and no more.
-Elder Romney
