October 16, 2005

• From an e-mail dated Oct. 11, 2005:

  
  

  "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Hear's my heart, Lord, take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above" (Come Thou Fount).

  
  

  
  

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  Greetings from LA, Last night we met with one of our investigators, Darnell, who is going to be baptized on Oct. 23. I realized all of a sudden as he was talking how much I cared for him. I had never cared about a person that much before. It was unsettling. He was not family. He was only a new friend. And yet I felt a bond to him and his wife too immense to describe. I cared so deeply that his wife overcome her sickness and suffering. Gah- I just can't describe it.

  
  

  On a lighter note- I want you all to know that I have become liberal. Being around all these other missionaries from rural parts of Arizona, Utah, Nevada, even Alberta Canada- all (except Canada) which represent Red America, I have come to the conclusion that I am liberal. Now, in terms of political economic policy I am still very Republican, but socially I feel left wing. This is because I am put next to these . . . people. Lets just say that by the way they talk about immigration, welfare, homosexuality, guns, child-rearing, etc. Man. You may think me conservatively moderate, but next to some other missionaries you would call me a leftist. Who'd have thought?

  
  

  Suggested reading for the week: Alma 32 in the Book of Mormon. And read it to the end of the chapter. That last part hit me hard this past week. Take Care, Elder Embree

  
  

  
  

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  "Master with anguish of spirit, I bow in my grief today. The depths of my sad heart are troubled, Oh waken and save, I pray! Torrents of sin and of anguish sweep over my sinking soul. And I perish, I perish! Dear Master, oh hasten and take control." (Hymn #105, Master the Tempest is Raging).

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