Wow, My time here at the MTC flew by! I can't
believe it has come to an end. I have grown so much since where I
started. It's amazing that someone could change that fast. But I am so
happy for the opportunity to have stayed at the Provo MTC. I will not be
traveling with my district, only the missionaries going to Sendai. It will be a bitter sweet goodbye tomorrow. But I am so happy to have met the people I have met and appreciate how they have helped me to grow too.
I don't know if I have told you, but here at the MTC we get
the opportunity to skype with people in Japan. It's really fun, except
for last week me and my companion forgot to prepare a lesson to teach
for skype and the topic for the Skype session was revelation through
prayer. Well, lets just say preparation goes a long way. Since the topic
is on prayer, what a better way to start out a meeting than a prayer!
Yeah we forgot to do that with her... Also during the skype session she
had a Pepper and Olive that wouldn't quit BARKING! We couldn't hear
her and to top things off after we gave a message about prayer we didn't
even end with a prayer.... Yeah we learned a lot last week!
We took
our mistakes and we made them the best we could. So this week we were
ready for skype. Since it was our last week me and my companion picked
the topic for what we thought needed to be shared, I picked the topic of
Church attendance and kind of tied it into taking the sacrament and
then how when we receive the sacrament we receive a remission of our
sins and the spirit of Christ, and then I shared 3 scriptures through
out this. Anyways I will get into more detail about it in a sec. But my
companion shared a message for Revelation through The Book of Mormon. Like I said we learned from our mistakes and so we made sure that we
prepared and prepared well and prayed like crazy because you can't do
anything without the Lord's help. Like what a better way to do the
Lord's work with his help...... DUH!
We shared our message and I shared 3
scriptures. The first one being D&C 84;45, which talks about the
Word of the Lord being truth and light. I explained to him when we go to
church and partake of the sacrament and hear truth about the gospel we
receive light. Then I shared with him D&C 50; 24 which says He that
receiveth light and continueth in light receiveth more light and that
light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day. I
explained that scripture, and I shared 3 Nephi 18;24 which talks about
let you're light so shine that it might be a light unto others and
follow in the Footsteps of Christ. I bore testimony to him that if he
continues to follow in the path of truth and light and shares his light
with others he will become closer to Christ then he has ever been. Well
after I shared this and my companion shared his message, he
expressed his thanks for our message and said he was very touched by our
message. I knew that the Spirit was guiding us through this. After
our message he explained to us that he is an Area of the Seventy! His
name is Brother Ishi. Wow it's a good thing we prepared well! I really
enjoyed his Spirit and our skype session it was really cool talking to
him and bearing testimony to him.
And not only to him, I think that we could all apply those
scriptures to our lives, We have so much Light and Truth and Knowledge
and the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Sometimes I wonder why we get
so scared to open our mouths and share the message with others. Yeah not
everyone will accept but you would be following His footsteps and that
is how we become like Him.
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