Freedom

This is for the grand kids! If you lived here close to us you could be free to run around with bare buns. But that only includes the boys. We always wondered why we seldom see the kids playing in the ocean here. We found out that they are afraid of the water because they do not know how to swim. They cannot afford a swimming pool to take swimming lessons in and the ocean waves are so strong it knocks them down. Even many of the adults never learned to swim so they never get to enjoy the cool water. All this beautiful water everywhere and they cannot enjoy it.

We can apply this to the scriptures. We have wonderful stories in the scriptures to teach us but if we do not read them we cannot learn from them and enjoy them. We love reading the scriptures while we are on our mission. So many of the stories are about missionaries long ago and we try to learn what they did so we can be better missionaries. We love these beautiful islands and the beautiful people.