Peacemakers Needed
“Peacemakers Needed”
President Quinn’s Weekly Message
California Santa Rosa Mission
August 21st, 2023
Hello! I hope this letter finds you healthy and happy.
I have been rereading President Nelson’s most recent talk in General Conference entitled, Peace Makers Needed. I love President Nelson! His messages are just what I need to be taught.
Sister Quinn and I have focused much of our training, since joining you as your mission leaders, on becoming lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ. Referring to the Savior and His disciples, President Nelson taught:
“His true disciples build, lift, encourage, persuade, and inspire—no matter how difficult the situation. True disciples of Jesus Christ are peacemakers.”
As we work to “go deep” personally and as a mission in our discipleship, I hope we are each feeling the desire to be peacemakers. President Nelson went on to teach:“…how we treat each other really matters! How we speak to and about others at home, at church, at work, and online really matters. Today, I am asking us to interact with others in a higher, holier way. Please listen carefully. “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy” that we can say about another person—whether to his face or behind her back—that should be our standard of communication.”
May I also add that how we speak about and to each other in CASRM really matters. I was grateful Sister Christensen made this point a few weeks ago in our MLC.
This is transfer week. Many of you will find yourselves in new areas, with new companions. Some of you will remain in your current area with a new companion or your current companion. Whether you experience a change this transfer or not, contention can arise in your companionship, district, and zone. I invite you to take time in your companionship study to read together President Nelson’s message (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04/47nelson?lang=eng). Please discuss ways you can apply his instruction to be more loving disciples of Jesus Christ, to be peacemakers, to “interact with one another in a higher, holier way.”
I know that as you work on being a peacemaker, you will qualify more fully to receive the gift of charity – the greatest gift of God. Sister Quinn and I pray that love for one another will continue being a core value of CASRM.
Love,
President Quinn
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