With His stripes we are Healed

This week we pretty amazing! Not exactly sure what made it so great but it was awesome it was super fast and Elder Gull and I are having to much fun. and since he has been out for so long he is really good at being a missionary and I have a lot to learn. 

We have been having a lot of success lately working with returning members and every week we get somebody that hasn't been to church in several years. It is really a blessing to be apart of such a marvellous work.

Not sure if you remember the Chalfant family if not...Elder Grenier and I were walking around an apartment complex and started talking to this really tall guy sitting on his steps with a cigarette in his hand. And the first thing he said was "Elders!" Turns put he was a member and loves missionaries but he was not in our records.

 So after many lessons falling through and knocking on on their door to wake them up to get to church (and having them not show up to church)  we stopped teaching them for 2 months... but we stopped by this week and they were super excited to see us. Long story short they finally showed up at church!!!  Sorry it is a long story with but it was truly a tender mercy.

I was reading the story of Abinadi this week in and in Mosiah 14 Abinadi is brought before the King and his priests and while he stands in chains he delivers this powerful phrase. 

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed

We are healed with his stripes and in a very real sense He was whipped by the devil himself in Gethsemane, "we might with surety hope for a better world." 

Love Elder Palmer