This past week has been incredible! So much awesome
stuff has happened I don't know where to begin.
W had our interviews with our Mission President, which
was awesome. Then we had a lot of great visits with members, less actives and
our investigators. On Thursday we went out with our Branch President to meet with
a part member family (the man I described as the "not yet Paul.") We weren't sure
what to share, but then the thought came to mind to share the BYU Devotional by Tad R.
Callister with him and his family. That talk is very bold in the way where
it uses the Bible to point out the organization of Christ's Church from the
bible and how there is only ONE church today that fits that blueprint
perfectly, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It addressed a lot
of his concerns and questions as well, with some of the greatest questions and
points I have ever heard. The best part is that he was actually listening to
it! It was a very wonderful visit. I hope that the things in that video are
playing over in his mind and helping prepare a place in his heart to finally
progress.
We had a great family home evening with a less active family who
invited their sister who is less active and who's husband is not a member and their 3
kids are also not members and they are 8, 9 and 11 years old. Also, Ramona, our investigator, was
at it with her kids as well. We watched the "Patterns of Light" videos for part
of the message and Ramona wanted to watch the second one again! It was a great
opportunity.
There are so many more wonderful things that happened this last
week as well that has been causing my heart to fill with such sweet joy and
desire to sing the song of redeeming love with even more gusto than before (Alma 5:26).
This last week as well I felt I needed to start looking up ways to
recognize and develop the gifts and talents that I have been given from our
Heavenly Father to help those around me. I am not close to being done yet but
as I have found them and written them down my soul has been expounding and
it has been helping me to have yet another way I can exercise my faith in the
Lord and better be able to help others come to him. That is something
that I would encourage each and every one of you to do, to start
looking for the unique gifts and talents that you have and strive to develop
them and share them with others. I promise that you will find it will yield
wonderful results, filling you life with more meaning, joy and happiness, for
truly as we strive to magnify the talents and gifts the Lord has blessed us
with, we will gain more and find more fulfillment in life. It is important as
well to remember that since we all have different talents that we
should not compare ourselves to others when they seem to have another talent
or gift that we do not. Rather, we should strive to develop the ones we have and
strive to develop others as well. For example, one of my wonderful sisters has
the divine and great gift and talent of handling children, loving them and
teaching them in very creative ways. My other sister has a wonderful and great
gift and talent of making people feel welcome and loved and is aware of how
others may be feeling. These are two magnificent things, but cannot be compared
to each other, for each is as important as the other because they are gifts and
talents that are used to enrich the lives of others. WOW. I do not know where
all that came from. I am suppose to be giving an update and seem to be giving a
discourse instead!
Well everyone just know that I love you all very much and am
grateful for all that you do. I do strongly encourage you to strive to come to
know yourself better and our loving Heavenly Father as well by coming to
recognize, develop and be faithful to those wonderful and beautiful gifts that
each and every one of you has.
I encourage you to take time to remember
daily all of your many blessings from the Lord and as you do these things you
will find that your life will be enriched, that you will be filled with the
Love of God, a love that will not fail you and will cause you to rejoice even
in the most difficult of times as you strive to turn outward.
I leave you with
these things and with my testimony that I know that these things are true, that
we are all unique children of a Loving Heavenly Father, having our own special
gifts to bless our lives more abundantly as we use them to bless the lives
of others. In the very sacred name of our Lord
and Savior, even Jesus Christ, amen.
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