This morning if I were to put a theme
song on how I feel it would be "Oh What a Beautiful Morning!"
Actually, that is not the best theme song. I think it would be "On
This Day of Joy and Gladness!" (p64)
Sister Loveland and I had a powerful
companionship study this morning... and yesterday. I'll start with
yesterday. We talked about the
parable of the 10 virgins and how the oil and the lamp are
comparable to the Doctrine of Christ. It is living the Doctrine of
Christ that prepares us to one day meet God again.
I drew a picture on our white board,
but never took a picture. I'll see if I can describe it.
1- the flame of the lamp represents
faith
2- the wick represents repentance. If
we are not constantly trimming our lamp, the wick folds over on
itself and the flame goes out.
3- Our reserve oil that we need to
constantly be pouring into our lamp is baptism. To take that one
further, it is making and keeping covenants with our Heavenly Father.
4- The oil in the lamp is like the Holy
Ghost. As we keep our covenants, we have the Holy Ghost with us which
leads to continually put the oil in our lamps which is enduring to
the end.
Today we were preparing for a lesson with a potential new investigator. (I'll tell you how we found him later.) As I was in my personal study the quote from President Benson came to my mind from Chapter 1. He said, "We are commanded by God to take this gospel to all the world. That is the cause that must unite us today. Only the gospel will save the world from the calamity of its own self-destruction. Only the gospel will unite men of all races and nationalities in peace. Only the gospel will bring joy, happiness, and salvation to the human family.” The Spirit testified to me very strongly that we needed to tell this man we are going to teach this.
We were talking about how important the
How to Begin Teaching Points were from Preach My Gospel. One of the
points is that our message is centered on Jesus
Christ, which make it of great value and importance. Why is it so
important? Because the gospel is the only thing that will unite ALL
men. It is the only thing that will bring joy and happiness. It is
the ONLY thing that will bring salvation to all of God's children.
It was a very powerful moment to have
that really sink deeper into our hearts. Sister Loveland and I made
some goals to be more obedient and more consecrated missionaries. We
are praying and expecting miracles this upcoming week, so it is
important that we do our part.
In ward council yesterday each member
made specific commitments to somehow share the gospel with a friend.
It was AMAZING! Us and the Elders told the ward council that we were
going to be 100% obedient and consecrated because they were putting a
lot of trust in us as missionaries. It's hard to describe the spirit
that was there... but it was exciting and nothing short of
miraculous!
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| Sister Hunt and Sister Record |
So about this guy we are teaching
today, I was on exchanges with Hermana Hunt on Friday. We were in my
area. We had a lot going on and didn't have a whole lot of time for
tracting. Before we went out we prayed that Heavenly Father would
provide us with a miracle, even though we didn't have a whole lot of
time to be out tracting. We got to the place we had planned to go. I
told Hermana Hunt that we needed to follow the Spirit in finding so
we could use the time we had effectively. The first door and second
doors we knocked on nothing happened.
I asked Hermana Hunt which one we
should go to next. She went into the parking lot and closed her eyes.
She opened them and walked straight to this one door (it was the one
I was hoping she would choose because I felt we needed to go there
too.) The guy answered the door and we told him who we were and what
we were out doing. He let us pray with him. He wanted us to pray that
he would be able to have more love for people and also that people
would have more love for others. He said so many of the world's
problems would be solved if people had more love in their hearts for
other people. (As I thought about what he said, the quote from
President Benson came to my mind during studies this morning.) Sister
Loveland and I are really excited to teach him today.
We taught Sister H this week! She is
still as amazing as ever! She is getting baptized on July 6th! Sister
Loveland and the other sisters set a baptismal date with her on
Wednesday while Sister Pfister and I were in the city for a meeting
with President Taylor and the Zone Leaders. So many miracles have
been happening and we feel like this is just the beginning! I hope I
get to stay here until the end of my mission. This area and this ward
are fabulous! I love each of you! Thank you for all your prayers!
Love, Sister Record
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