Thank you for your inspiring
messages this past week and especially your prayers, they definitely do
help! One of the high councilman who spoke in Plantation told a story
when a young boy met one of the apostles. He said to the apostle, you
know why you can travel all over the entire world and not be injured or
get sick, cause I pray for you! So know most importantly that God is
your loving Heavenly Father, and your prayers always help!
This past week I have been pondering a lot on the
big eternal vision, how ultimately the purpose of this life is to
prepare us to raise a family to live in the Celestial Kingdom. That is
the main purpose of a mission, to grow and mature to be ready to be able
to do so. One huge lesson that I learned this week is that the Spirit
is the ultimate teacher, we just must find a way to cultivate spiritual
experiences. We saw this specifically three times this past week. Once
when we were teaching our baptism for this upcoming Sunday. At the
beginning of the lesson she expressed doubts of wanting to be sure about
baptism. We began the lesson with a powerful opening prayer that
invited the Spirit, then it seemed like every word we spoke carried
straight to her heart. As we spoke you could see her countenance
changing to the point where eventually the Spirit hit her so hard that
she said, "I need this! I can't help but not have this in my life. I am
getting baptized!" The other experience was when we were teaching a lady
who was a little standoffish the first time we met her, she didn't
really want to do anything but her husband was elect. We stopped by and
he wasn't there but she was so we decided to teach her. During that
lesson we gave it everything we had, at the end she said "you're right,
my family and I need this a lot. We are coming to church!" The last
experience was an interview that I had this past week. Before the
interview she was expressing doubts about baptism to the Sisters but I
went in there with full faith. I began by asking her what I can pray
for, offered my whole soul up unto my loving Heavenly Father, after the
prayer she looked at me and said "Wow that was powerful." And so went
the interview!
Well I am eternally grateful for this past week in
the mission field, Elder Morgan is amazing! This week let's make sure we
remember our God. This gospel is absolutely true! Let us stay faithful
unto our Savior and our Heavenly Father.
With Love,
Elder Pond
