Well another eventful week in the Christmas
season of the SUNNY and HOT Southern Florida!! This week was full of
every part of getting wet from biking in walls of rain, to going down
into the baptismal font several times! We have learned an incredible
amount and been blessed incredibly by the hand of the Lord. I am
grateful for the love that I feel from Father every single day, and know
that as we all live our lives according to HIS will then we will feel
of that same love.
Today I wanted to share a little bit about one of the most basic
and fundamental principles of the gospel, FAITH in the Savior Jesus
Christ. There is a really good talk by Elder Cook that speaks about
this. He talks about spiritual creation and how it is an element of
faith. For instance, before the city of Enoch was translated they had a
testimony. God created the earth spiritually before he did so
temporally. So they spiritually created then in came to pass. Elder Cook
talks about how if we want to bring something to pass, and it is the
will of the Lord, we just must believe with the innermost part of our
heart and then we will literally bring it to pass.
We saw this principle of faith many times this week. One Child of
God we were able to baptize on Saturday had an incredible amount of
doubts throughout the week. But Father was able to help us cultivate
spiritual experiences as we believed with our whole heart and gave him
everything we have! Another huge miracle came at the Book of Mormon
musical again. During the intermission we saw two younger men and God
gave me the capacity to spiritually create and see them as they could
become. We began to talk and they are now being taught by the
missionaries down in Miami. Last but not least, we were biking down the
street on one side and the Spirit prompted us to go contact a man on the
other side of the street. When we began to speak with him I felt
tremendous power from Father [this because we believed with every part
of our soul]! He accepted baptism and church right on the spot. Him and
his family of three were at church on Sunday, loved it, and are getting
baptized this Sunday!
Truly Brothers and Sisters, if we can just believe with our whole
soul as we spiritually create then miracles are promised to come from
the hand of the Lord.
This upcoming week we are looking at an
amazing week. I am extremely excited and urge all of you to have the
best week ever by applying faith through spiritual creation.
I love the Lord and I know the Lord!
With Love,
Elder Pond
