All Merciful

This week I studied the difference between a transgression and a sin. It's actually really interesting. A sin is when we know- when we know what we are doing is bad, but we choose to do it anyway. But a transgression is more of when we don't know. Our Heavenly Father is Merciful and just. 2 Nephi 9:25 says "he has given a law; and where there is no law given there is no punishment; and where there is no punishment there is no condemnation; and where there is no condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim upon them, because of the atonement; for they are delivered by the power of him." When we haven't been blessed with the knowledge of the gospel, it wouldn't be fair of our Loving Father to punish us on what we didn't know. And he won't. I read a talk from the October 1996 general conference that I really liked- Sins and Mistakes by Dallin H. Oaks. I reccomend you read it. I loved studying about this because it reminded me of the hope of the Gospel, and how perfect this plan is. There is no flaw, and there never will be. God doesn't make mistakes.

I also studied about the Celestial Law... I was particularly interested with Doctrine ans Covenants 88:25. "The earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth the measure of its creation." I'm thinking a lot about this right now and about how I can better fill the measure of my creation. If you have any thoughts about this topic, please send me an email!!

So much happened this week!! We went to the temple with our friend Oswaldo to do Baptisms for the dead for the first time. It was so good, he had the opportunity to baptize!! 

We had a crazy food day where we got fed every meal, and 3 of the people we had lessons with insisted on buying us something. I probably gained like 10 pounds and I'm still paying for it... but the people in this culture are so nice! I love them! We went to dinner with our friend Eduardo, and he wanted us to have the experience of a Mariachi band, so he payed them to play a song for us! It was really cool! Lastly, we had our friend Israel baptized this week! Yay!

My question of the week is: How can you further fill the measure of your creation?