Translation of passage from 9 Mayo 2016

"I will share a thought in Spanish, since I did not speak Spanish in the video call. I dispense those who do not understand me.

"I've been thinking a lot lately about covenants. What use would a covenant be and anyway couldn’t we keep the commandments without it? I have concluded it is to have a stronger commitment to God. For example, anyone has the responsibility not to get high, but a dad has a moral obligation to do so because of the damage they will do to his children, not only to himself. Similarly, any person has the expectation to obey the commandments, but he that makes covenants with God is saying that we understand His word and we are ready to obey it. We covenant, and therefore we are under obligation to obey. It doesn't really do much for God; He knows us perfectly and blesses those who keep His commandments, whether we make covenants or not. It serves us to have and feel this obligation.

"So that if we make and we keep sacred covenants made by ordinances performed under proper authority, He is bound to bless us. The good news is that He doesn’t resent the obligation. In this way too, we give ourselves the obligation to follow what what He commands us, that is, to become converted to Him. Ezekiel 36: 25-30 says: " Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

"I love this scripture. And I share this in the name of Jesus Christ, amen."