Walking in Little Ghana

Just last night before bed I was studying in the old testament and came to one of the very last verses of Job. It reads... 

Job 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

This has surpassed Job 19:25 as my favorite verse in this beautiful book of scripture. It seems insignificant so let me explain how it has touched me so profoundly. In chapter 1 we learn of the kind of man that Job was, as well as the many possessions that he had. 

Verses 2 and 3 say 2. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

3. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

We all know that Job lost everything. In fact in the case of Job that phrase is used too frequently to quite communicate the exquisite and profound pain that he experienced. We then read something like 40 chapters of his 'friends' telling him to curse God and that he's a worthless pile of trash who has had the wrath of God brought upon him because of his iniquity. There's plenty to be said about that. But in the end Job stays faithful and repents, he is then visited by the Lord and blessed abundantly. We read:

Job 42:10 ...the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 12. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13. He had also seven sons and three daughters. 

So, the Lord blesses Job with double of everything that he had before. So why wasn't he blessed with fourteen sons and six daughters? Simply because he never really lost those first children that he loved so deeply. They lived on, and I'm sure he knew that if he stayed faithful he would be reunited with them. I love this scripture so much because it testifies simply of the reality of eternal families. As well as the restoration of the Gospel through the Prophet Joseph Smith. 

This week we were super guided by the Lord and found some really cool people. I got a picture when we were walking in little Ghana and someone had a bag of rice on their head so I said "Woah!! That's amazing! Can you teach me??" So she just grabs the bag of rice and throws it on my head and we walk it to their apartment for them. haha, 

Sorry, no more stories because I don't have much more time and I didn't take pictures of anything else but I love you all! 

Keep praying and reading those scriptures!  

Elder Brunsdale