keep being good

 It was another busy weekend. I am determined to keep up on Brazil and keep taking pictures like our first month we were here. I know I will miss so much if I don't. Brazil has so many neat things.
We went to the feira this quick to check out some stuff there. We always like walking around.

 Stake Temple day. I absolutely adore these friends.

 

     This week is Easter and I can't help but express my appreciation for our older brother, Jesus Christ. C.S. Lewis gave great insight into our Savior's temptation and atoning experience: "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is; after all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives into temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later.

     That is why bad people in one sense know very little about badness. They've always lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means -- the only complete realist." 

    As I read about Jesus Christ and his experience in Gethsemane my heart hurts for all he had to suffer. If He could resist satan under those excusiating circumstances, how can I not resist him on a daily basis. I do not have to decend below all, I do not have to expeirience the pain He went through. Yes, we all have our trials. We all have our "gethsemane's" to endure but Christ desended below all. He truly understands it ALL. 

    For me- I will keep trying to be "good" so I can truly understand the "bad". I hope we can all take a little more time this week to think of our Savior and his atoning sacrifice for each of us.