Well HI!!!
To tell you the truth I am
absolutely tired wow we just got back form our every 6 months activity and this time we had it in IZAPA where there are a lot of ruins so that was pretty good.
Well this week was pretty all right
not too bad either and not too great. it
was a week haha. The thing is its heating up and well its nice and toasty!!! Here
its known as Tapachula the heat kills ya. the truth is we drink lots of water so i just
came from the house where i drank 3 liters of water! i was pretty thirsty haha
but that’s a good thing. This week was pretty alright because we walked a lot
and since we have like a lot of area we decided to see who we could find to
talk with and well there are some pretty interesting children of god -its a
thing i learned this week is that everyone is different and they all have
different beliefs, the thing is that we all have a belief in god but if we
don’t really use the faith we have to do something. If we have a
"dead" faith where are we going to go? The truth is nowhere!!! We
will not have any success with god. Its like i say a lot down here if you want
to play futbol, soccer, you first need to pick up the ball and go out and kick
it around. If you want to be in the world cup this year you better have tried
out and worked on all the things you can before you can even think you can play
with the best in the world. we met with a lady who has never picked up a bible
but she wanted to tell us how it was. how? and anyways we tried to tell her she
could compete if she would take a bit of time to try and read it. It’s like my
companion Elder Zambrano, he told me that before his mission his stake
president asked him if he had ever read the Book of Mormon and he said no, he
then asked him a question that’s sort of funny, "how in the world will you
preach something you don't know?, how will you help other know its true if you
yourself don’t know its true?" haha he said “President thats a very good
question” haha. the thing is you should know the word to teach it. In Doctrine
and Covenants it teaches you should first seek the word before you preach it. But
how? President Packer taught a very good lesson…
Years ago, Elder S. Dilworth Young of
the Seventy taught me a lesson about reading the scriptures. A stake was
struggling with tensions and difficulties among the members, and counsel needed
to be given.
I asked President Young, “What should
I say?”
He answered simply, “Tell them to read
the scriptures.”
I asked, “Which scriptures?”
He said, “It really doesn’t matter.
Tell them to open up the Book of Mormon, for instance, and begin to read. Soon
the feeling of peace and inspiration will come, and a solution will present
itself.”
Make scripture reading a part of your
regular routine, and the blessings will follow. There is in the scriptures a
voice of warning, but there is also great nourishment.
If the language of the scriptures at
first seems strange to you, keep reading. Soon you will come to recognize the
beauty and power found on those pages. first seek and then preach. if someone
tells you that Mormons aren't Christians well then you can explain to them that
we are we believe n Christ you can say a few articles of faith but if you don't
know them then what will you do? Elder Parry said, “I encourage you to use your bright minds to study and learn the
Articles of Faith and the doctrines they teach. They are among the most
important and certainly the most concise statements of doctrine in the Church.
If you will use them as a guide to direct your studies of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, you will find yourself prepared to declare your witness of the restored
truth to the world. You will be able to declare in simple, straightforward, and
profound ways the core beliefs you hold dear as a member of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints”. When we have the faith we can do we can do
great things if we study we can back up our reasons. We live in a wonderful
world full of wonderful things we are made by a wondrous Father who loves us
and well he does such wondrous things. let him work the wonders inside of you
by reading the scriptures. because as i read a few days ago in 2 Nephi 32: 3 “angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost;
wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast
upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will Tell you all
things what ye should do”.
So do it! Just do it! I love this
work!!!
Elder Jaymes Monson
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