For a little side note, the weather is to a cool 53 degrees, and all of the mountains are covered in a crisp, colorful spread of fall display. Perfect weather for kite flying and BAPTIZING! =D
At the first of the week, Brothers' Steward, and Mills; from the missionary board of education came to visit our mission for a leadership training. Talk about studs! They carried the spirit so strong and really represented Christ in all they said and did. One of the days, President and Sister Irion, Brother Mills, Brother Steward, Elder H, and I all gathered in the upper room of the mission home for a little study. We decided to read through 2Nephi 31, Which is one of the greatest chapters for learning about the doctrine of Christ. The coolest part was that each of us there had read this chapter over 100 times, and I learned a ton more that I never thought of before! The Doctrine of Christ teaches us what it is that we must do to gain Eternal Life. Things like learning to have FAITH in Jesus Christ and his atonement, enough to REPENT of our sins, and witnessing unto the Father that we will take upon ourselves the name of Christ by being BAPTIZED. Then receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost to help along the rest of the path. Nephi said...
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I know that if ye shall afollow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no bhypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real cintent, repenting of your sins, witnessing unto the Father that ye are dwilling to take upon you the ename of Christ, by fbaptism—yea, by following your Lord and your Savior down into the water, according to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost; yea, then cometh the gbaptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost; and then can ye speak with the htongue of angels, and shout praises unto the Holy One of Israel.
In this chapter we learn what we MUST do to gain eternal life. Step by step. But this time the word "then" stuck out to me. After we are Baptized, THEN we must receive the Holy Ghost or it is good for nothing.... After receiving the Holy Ghost I knew we had to endure to the end, but what all does it intell? Again I saw the word "THEN". THEN ye can speak with the tongue of angles..... So is that another step? Speaking with the tongue of angles? Another commandment like receiving the Holy Ghost?
I then found a quote by President George Albert Smith in Preach My Gospel...
" That is your mission, my brethern and sisters of the Church, that is your responsibility. Freely you have received and our Heavenly Father will expect you freely to share with His other sons and daughters these glorious truths"
"We will attain our exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom only on the condition that we share with our Father's other children the blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and observe the commandments that will enrich our lives here and hereafter"
Then it clicked! MISSIONARY WORK is part of enduring to the end. And just like keeping any other commandment, we will have the spirit with us more as we make it apart of our daily lives.
The next day we had a leadership training and it was a lot of fun. Elder H and I did a training on companionship study and making lesson plans. We put up a projector and did these cool simulations, and then everyone went and role-played. turned out to be pretty revelatory.
On Friday Elder H and I had a huge tender mercy moment. We were able to travel to one of our old areas for a district meeting. So the night before, we called Dotty to tell her the good news. We set up a lunch appointment with her after our meeting and decided that we would meet at this Chinese restaurant at 2:00. We drove down there and we couldn't find Dotty anywhere. we waited a couple min and decided that maybe she had gone to one of the other Chinese restaurants in town. (she didn't have a cell phone so we couldn't call and find out where she was.) we raced up the street and couldn't find her there. We went back to our original starting point and then remembered one more restaurant in town. SHe wasn't there either. Kept going back and forth to each one looking for her. We almost didn't have time to stay but we decided to check one more time. As we were driving we saw Dotty's truck pulled over in one of the parking lots and she was just crying!!!
We raced over and we were so excited to see each other. "I thought I missed you!" she said haha. One of the Greatest joys in this life is seeing someone you care about come into the church. But even greater is seeing them still enduring to the end. =D We told her we would come back when her and husband go to the temple to be sealed.
That was fo sho one of the highlights of my mission.
General conference was legit too! It seems to me that we are going to need to be ready to "Stand up for what we believe in, even if that means standing alone" and that we need to make sure we are worthy now, to be ready for when that time comes. All in all that was a awesome spiritual boost.
How blessed we are to have Prophets and Apostles on the earth today! THE CHURCH IS TRUE.
Love Elder Pearson
Love Elder Pearson
Mom, For today we have to write a newsletter, drive some missionaries to new apartments. We have a meeting with President, a staff meeting, a conference call, and then planning for zone leader council tomorrow.
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