Things
out here in Brasil are just flying by, the time here has to be
differente or something becuase it feels like a week is the time of one
day, We have so much to do and talk about that i don´t even know where
to start.
These last couple of weeks have been
a time of learing for me, from reading in the scriptures, lesson on the
streets, or talking with my Mission President it´s been a lot of
learing these last couple of weeks. I´m not going to share everything
because if i tried so I´m just going to start with the basics.
First
of all in Third Nephi when Christ was visitng his people here the
nefitas in chapter 11 it was interesting on what he did at the moment,
first he did his introduction, that he is the living Christ who the
profits where talking about, he showed himself to the people and then
the part that is interesting is how he organizied his church again here
in the Américas, that is the first thing that he did, and then the first
thing that he teachs is about baptizem, how importante it is for
everybody and how his disiples need to help out with that.
And
what is it that we are to do as missionarys of his church, that answer
is from one conference that we had with part of the 12 and some other
people, to teach repantace and to baptize converts, i really like one of
the parts where Elder Anderson said that every misionary needs to have
this word baptizem in their mouth and never feel scared to ask someone
to be baptized, because if we don´t ask then they can´t repent. That´s
part of what i got from 3 Nephi 11, then the rest of the book of 3 Nephi
is amazing, but i want to move over to Mormon right now.
In
Mormon i relized something that I´ve never relized before where the
first time that Mormon knoew that he was going to be a profet and get
the plates was when he was 11, for some reason i started to think about
that a lot, i wondered how Mormon felt during that moment, if he felt
overwhelemed, or scared or just thought the guy that told him was a
little bit crazy, but he did the right things and got the plates when he
was 25 like that guy said he needed to do.
What
i started to think about right there was how many times do we feel like
we aren´t the right person to do something, how many times do we feel
small or like it´s for somebody else and not us, I know that I´ve felt
that way a lot during my mission or even during my life, the first
months on the mission to learn Português, to feeling comfotable with
that and then being called to train when you are still new on the
mission, not feeling that I knew enough or wasn´t ready, but what i
learned during these moments is how to really trust in the Lord, to
learn taht you can´t do things without
God, and how he is always here ready to help you out.
And
the last thing is in Ether 12 where it´s like the last thing, here
Morôni is talking about faith a lot but what i thought was interesting
was when he started to wonder why he was asked to write in the plates,
He was asking why him, when he doens´t right that good, why doesn´t he
have that gift to right like other people, how is this going to work
out, all short of things like that. And that the Lord gives the famous
sciprture, in Ether 12:27 where the Lord says that he makes weak things
strong for those who humble themselfs before him. But what i liked was a
couple of vereses after where Morôni says that he was conforted by the
words of the Lord.
Waht was intersting to me at
that time, it was like i was in the plce of Mornôni, where at that time
I wasn´t feeling like I was enough to do the work of the Lord, things
weren´t going out at planned and it was wearing on me at times, but it´s
amazing how the Book of Mormon will always teach you no matter how many
times that we read and study the words.
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