Email 10-3-11

This is just a fast note to go out.  It’s a quote that I found by Elder Holland just giving people something to think about for this next week.  

Christ will run to you, and is running even now, if you will but receive the extended arm of His mercy.  

To those who stagger or stumble, He is there to steady and strengthen us.  In the end He is there to save us, and for all this, He gave His life.  However dim our days may seem, they have been a lot darker for the Savior of the world.  As a reminder of those days, Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit to His disciples, the wounds in His hands and in His feet and in His side-- Signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect.  Signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn´t love you.  Signs, if you will that problems pass and happiness can be ours.  It is the wounded Christ who is the Captain of our souls, He who yet bears the scars of our forgiveness, the lesions of his love and humility, the torn flesh of obedience and sacrifice.  These wounds are the principal way we are to recognize Him when He comes.  He may invite us forward, as He has invited others, to see and to feel those marks.  

I hope you all enjoyed conference.  

I watched conference at the Stake center in Cuidad Del Este.  It was in Spanish so it hurt my head by the time I was done but I think I still got some good out of it.

Love you all and wish you the best.

-Elder Beatty