teach us tolerance and love

today i gave my farewell talk!
it went well. some friends came (reps of park plaz and london :) and family! oh and also in attendance were lots of soccer boys. for a slit second i was like, what? they came to my farewell?! but then duh i realized they were there for trent who was giving his homecoming talk. ha but it was still fun to pretend boys would come for me :)

I talked about tolerance and love. I used examples from the life of the Savior who showed us the perfect path of love and tolerance. The examples I told were:
Cleansed the Leper
Woman at the well in Samaria
Dined with publicans and sinners
woman taken in adultery
in all of these instances Christ showed that he looked past differences with love and saw them as children of God. In the case of the adulterous woman, he forgave her, but gave her the strict charge to "go, and sin no more" - though he loves the sinner he cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.
that's how we can be. don't accept sin. Elder Nelson said that we think that some of something is good, so a lot must be better, but this isn't the case with tolerance. we shouldn't permit, encourage, or partake in sin. He also said that sometimes to truly love means that we will disagree and even confront differences if we can help the other. Of course, that doesn't always work, in which case we still love them. Love is the key.
So, that was teh gist of my talk. it was short, only 11 minutes. but my family had to sing, so since i was doing double duty i hope i'm forgiven.
and BEST PART is that this is one more thing to check off my list before I can go!! One step closer to being a missionary!!!!
10 days!