To my friends and family,
This week was amazing! We got to teach at a high school, go
to a soccer game, and find and teach a ton of people that are super
interesting!
So interesting cultural thing, in Korea, after a mother has
a baby nobody sees the baby for 100 days. Like the baby doesn't leave the house
and the mother doesn't really leave the house too often either. It used to be
because of health worries, but now it has kind of just changed to accommodate
the mother. I think it’s pretty cool, especially because one of our church
members just had a baby and we finally got to see her!
So my quick message for the week is the balance between
God's Justice and Mercy. In the Old Testament part of the Bible, it is very
clear that when people break God's commandments, bad things happen. But then in
the New Testament, prophets write of a God who suffered for all of our sins so
that we would not have to. This sometimes feels like a contradiction to people,
and many people can't believe the Old Testament God is the same as the one in
the New Testament. Fortunately, we have the Book of Mormon to clarify this
confusion. Mosiah 15:8-9 says,
8 And thus God
breaketh the bands of death, having gained the victory over death; giving the
Son power to make intercession for the children of men—
9 Having ascended
into heaven, having the bowels of mercy; being filled with compassion towards
the children of men; standing betwixt them and justice; having broken the bands
of death, taken upon himself their iniquity and their transgressions, having
redeemed them, and satisfied the demands of justice.
When we break God's commandments, there are always temporal
and spiritual consequences. Fortunately, we have a loving God who cares about
us so much to send his own Son, to stand between us and the consequences of our
sins, and literally suffer on our behalf so that we need only to repent to
avoid the consequences of our actions. I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and my
Heavenly Father. I am so grateful for their plan and the opportunity I have to
share it with the people in Korea and with all of you!
Love you all,
Elder Coleman
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