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“I have found you”

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Artist credit:  Teleita Alusa   Alma 36:17-21 “I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death. And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more. And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!”  He was eating old manioke and kumala out of a bag.  This guy was like maybe old 50s or early 40s but he was just sitting on the ground and we said "yo" and he was like "yo" and we kept walking.  But then he says "mo fefe" and we replied "Sai ‘aupito. Fefe?" We talked for like 2 seconds more then he goes (translated), "I have too many sin.  Please forgive me missionaries.  Please forgive me, please forgive me.  I'm not the good husband I should be.  Please forgive me."  He then just...

The Virtue of God

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 Alma 31:5 “And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.“