Protect Your Peace!

Happy June everyone! Hope everyone is well. Not a whole lot to update on this week, but here's what I got:

Highlights:

-We got to go to Chilliwack Thursday and Saturday this week, got to meet with some cool members, definitely the most beautiful part of the area(except the Temple of course)

-We also made it over to Coquitlam this week. It's been super cool, we've been out there more this transfer and it's a great part of the mission!

-Goodbye Bryce. I'm not sure if y'all remember, but our friend Bryce has been on Baptismal Date for awhile now, but this week we found out he moved out to Vancouver, so we had to pass him off to the Vancouver YSA Elders. It was a bit sad, but we got permission to go to Vancouver on Sunday to introduce him to the YSA. He really connected well with the YSA, and he even got to meet with our Mission President. He's still progressing towards Baptism and I'm so excited for him! He's such a great example of Christlike love, I'm so glad I got to meet him! 

-So much driving this week, we were all over the area, and we even went out to Vancouver twice for some meetings. Glad I get a bit of a break today haha.

Lowlights:

-It was pouring rain pretty much all week. But in good news it's gonna get super warm this upcoming week!

Spiritual thought: We met with a member named Connor this week in Chilliwack. He's awesome. We had a great discussion on the importance of taking upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ, and using the enabling power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. One thing that Connor said that stuck out to me and Elder Hirst was when opposition came in Connor's life, he always told himself to stick to the Covenant Path in order to protect his peace. 

Me and Elder Hirst got thinking about that for a minute. It's pretty cool to think that 1. Peace comes through Jesus Christ, but it's a peace that is different from the world:

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

-John 14:27

And when we have this kind of peace, it is enduring, and brings us closer to our Heavenly Father. 2. When we put on the armour of God, and build our foundation on the rock of Jesus Christ, we protect ourselves from the storms of opposition. We are in effect, protecting our peace. 

But when it comes to the peace of the Gospel, it's much more than just personal peace, it's a peace that we need to guide others to. This is where Charity enters the picture. I'm reminded of a quote by Elder Uchtdorf:

"There is something interesting, almost paradoxical, about this path you’ve chosen: the only way for you to progress in your gospel adventure is to help others progress as well. To help others is the path of discipleship. Faith, hope, love, compassion, and service refine us as disciples."

-Elder Uchtdorf

When we bring others to the peace that Christ offers, we ourselves strengthen our connection to the Prince of Peace! With Christlike love, we can bring this to everyone! 

Christlike love is an enduring feeling which properties can change the course of any event, and inevitably disables the attacks of the Adversary. 

If any of you can understand this rant of mine, I urge you to seek to protect the peace in your life, to more secure yourself to the Prince of Peace. I also urge you to not only secure yourself more to Him, but to help others to secure themselves as well. I promise that as you do so, that you will be able to see the promises in Helaman 5:12 happen in your lives and the lives of those around you:

"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty 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."

-Helaman 5:12

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 

Anyways, have a good week everyone! 

-Elder Biesinger

Pictures! 

(2 of them are from Haida Gwaii, I did not take them, but I thought they were pretty cool!)