K wait a minute is Alex Henderson seriously going to japan??? HOLY COW!!!! And is Jeff Flores seriously home from his mission already?!?! WHAT ON EARTH!!! wowwww..... alright im up to speed now, i think
Alright sorry but ive been boring with the crazy and exciting stories lately, and this week i remain so... but i have learned a lot that i want to share! K but really the only sort of crazy funny colombian type thing thats happened this week is that we have an investigator with a prosthetic leg that doesnt fit her very well so its hard for her to leave the house, she didnt make it to church last week, so we went to pick her up yesterday morning with a wheelchair haha and she kind of got offended as she saw that we had brought it and were seriusly considering it hahaha but we just laughed it off and she did end up going with us, and my comp pushed me in the wheelchair...
Alright well anybody whose read preach my gospel knows theres a part of the fifth chapter that talks about how the Book of Mormon answers questions of the soul (ps shout out to my man Elder Tenney in chile tearing up the tenth chapter in PME, good stuff!!!) well ive had soooo many cool experiences with that this week and besides the listof questions there ive added some of my own questions of the soul that the book of mormon answers!
A question of the soul: Will i really have my leg again? So as i mentioned we have an investigator with a prosthetic leg, shes a single adult mom with teenage kids who are members but super inactive (somewhat coming back to the church thoughnow luckily!!) and we taught her the plan of salvation this week! As I shared Alma 40:23 with her, i felt impressed to share my experience of really coming to know the truthfulness of that and the relief and happiness that the knowledge of the resurection brings... I shared the story of how i dislocated my shoulder at byu playing basketball and all and how in that time i really realized the reality of that promise, even if my shoulder didnt completely recover or delayed in the process, its just a part of life with an immortal body, but that it didnt matter, id have a perfect one some day, and i think upon sharing that, the most impressive thing was not the knowledge she gained, but rather the knowledge i gained. In that moment, i realized that my whole experience with my shoulder had soooo much more purpose and importance, it had all happened to me so that i could then testify to this poor lady without the blessing of a leg with more strength of the plan of salvation and the blessings it promises us, better known as the plan of happiness in my opinion.
Another question of the soul: If we lived with The Lord in the premortal life, why does He allow so many of His innocent children to be born into such horrible circumstances where they only live a few years or are even sometimes aborted? haha so that was the question this same investigator asked us the next day after teaching the plan of salvation. So what did we do to answer this qeusiton of the soul? Thats right, the Book of Mormon. We flipped to Moroni 8 with her and taught how children (below the age of 8), being innocent, dont have need of repentance, and therefore dont need the cleansing of baptism either, and those that die within that age range are automatically saved in the celestial kingdom!!
Other question of the soul If my son passed away, where is he now? A different investigator was really unsure where her son was who had passed away when we found her. We took advantage of the opportunity and showed her the Book of Mormon. We showed her that having just the Bible is like having one dot on a sheet of paper (youve probably heard this example). We can draw infinite lines throuht one dot, and the Bible, being incomplete, can be interpreted in infinite ways, just look at how many versions of it there are and how many different churches. We then showed her that woith two dots on a sheet of paper, we can only draw one line, and with the Book of Mormon complementing the Bible, there is only one way to interpret the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love teaching this idea with exampes specific to the peoples needs, so we opened up to Alma 40:11 and taught her that all souls, good or bad, are carried back to the presence of God after this life (later we explained more fully all of that after this life before and after judgement..)
Pues quisiera testificar de este plan de felicidad. Sé que es perfecto. Sé que Jesucristo lo hizo posible. otra cosa que nos encanta hacer a mi compañero y a mí es cantar himnos de la primaria en las lecciones, invita tanto al espíritu es increíble! Me encanta uno de esos himnos que dice ´´Dios requería que un hijo capaz de amar, diera su vida y a todos quisiera salvar´´ Sé, por el Libro de Mormón y por la oración, que Jesucristo fue escogido desde el principio para ser nuestro salvador, y lo dejo en Su sagrado nombre, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
No comments:
Post a Comment