Hey everybody. I hope you are doing well. Today I want to share a quick story that happened to me on an exchange this week. We were walking and a young girl called us over. She immediately asked for a book (everyone here loves books of any kind and they know we carry lots of Book of Mormons with us)! The other Elder gave her one. On the back we have our names and our number so that investigators can easily reach us later. The little girl realized that the zero we had written was different from the rest (we wrote it too small). She came to us and asked us to fix it. Most everyone who witnessed her do this, laughed at her and told her it was alright. She was told that if she could recognize it as a zero then why does it need to be changed.
As we walked away I began to understand the beauty of what I had just seen A small child saw an error in something and her first desire was to fix it. All the adults around her just laughed and said it was good enough. This is why Christ asked for the little children to be brought to him. They understand perfection and meekness in ways we never can. We see errors or sins in our lives and immediately justify them, we act as if they are alright. This is not okay, we all have to correct all errors, no mistake no matter how small we need to fix it. But through Jesus Christ we can, if only we turn to Him. So look towards him and be like the girl and her zero.
I know this letter is short but I do love you guys so much. I appreciate all the emails and letters and every single thing I am finding in my emails. I can't do Mondays without them so keep them coming, please! Keep working hard and I will too!
I Love you all
Elder Butters
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