[Mason] The Gospel of Jesus Christ!

It seems that over the past few months I have come to learn what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is and how we can and should use it. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is outlined in PMG pretty well, but is it really just those five steps?

1-Faith

2-Repentance

3-Baptism

4-Holy Ghost

5-Endure to the End

Is it merely abiding by what these steps guide us to do? Is it as simple as steps 1-5 and repeat?

I would like to answer saying "no." We have the Gospel of Jesus Christ that teaches us more that what we should do and how we should do it, but rather it teaches us Who should we be? 

Christ asked, "What manner of men ought ye to be?" and in the same breath, answered saying "Even as I am." 3 Nephi 27:27 

This isn't just a simple question he asks! Christ was serious. He lived what he taught! he was the perfect example for us because he lived a gospel centered life and even his very heart was centered on the Gospel! 

The Gospel we hear defined in many different ways, but we all talk about the five steps in it. in reality the Gospel of Jesus Christ includes so much more, stretching beyond the first principles and ordinances to the character and virtue we need to develop. Its range is limitless, because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not something that we do, rather something we live and put into our hearts and let it guide us day by day. 

Time and time again we read in the scriptures "repent ye" or "Keep the commandments" and so much more. these basic things pertain to the lower law that we at least need to abide by if we are to let Christ into our lives. but We, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, need to live the higher law and not just go through motions and let those 5 steps be our limit! let us develop within ourselves the Godliness that exists only upon fully embracing what the Gospel is and what it can do! I invite you to search out what is that you need to do to let the Gospel be planted in your hearts. this will be between you and the Lord and may take time, but God will answer your prayers.

So this past week in Scituate was great. We reset a baptismal date with Patricia S.  and she is pumped for July 25th. Frank Williams has been unable to meet with us so we had to drop his date. Sandy C. came to church again and she loved it again, and she wants to come again. We are so excited. Adam J.  has been progressing more and more and the Gospel is truly changing his life. 

We had MLC this week, which started with an endowment session which was really great. We then had a really great meeting with the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders there in Belmont. We Held Zone Meeting this week as well and it went well we suppose, but we are still just trying to pump up our Zone! Our Zone here in the Providence North Zone is Nick-Named "LOB CITY" and so we are trying to live up to the name.

(L)ove + (O)bedience = (B)aptisms

It's been a really busy week with regards to meetings. there was so much we had to do, but I am glad its over, because now I can focus on just the work in Scituate and the Zone, no meetings or anything this week...whew!

After going to Zone meeting, we had correlation with our Ward Mission Leader and He snapped some photos haha, so I will send them!

Elder Scott