Hola!
I hope that sharing the gift has been an amazing experience for you in this past week. I know that if you sincerely pray for missionary opportunities, they will come. As you strive to live a good life, follow the commandments, and love Heavenly Father and your neighbor, He will be able to work through you.
A mission is such a wonderful thing! The spirit is so strong and I feel its presence. There is a special spirit in the temple and I think one thing we can strive to do is to carry that spirit out of the temple into our temple or ourselves. You can feel His presence all the time. You don't have to be on a mission, in the MTC, in Church, in seminary, in institute, in the temple, or any other holy place to feel the spirit. You can always have the spirit with you. Think about your covenants you have made. Think about these words from the sacrament prayer.
"...O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen."
Christmas week is over and another one is starting. During this week a new year begins. I am sure some of you are going to be making new years resolutions. Elder Graham and I have visited many members homes and invited them to do things. Elder Graham gave a talk last Sunday and invited them to do something as well. That same thing I am inviting you do as well. A Christmas tradition in the Graham home is to every year write down one thing you are going to give or give up for Christ. One thing to help them become more Christlike. I invite you to think and ponder about one thing you can give up to become more Christlike. Pray and think about it and on new years commit to giving that thing up. Anything that stops you from coming closer to Christ. As a missionary and representative of Jesus Christ I can promise you that as you give up this thing that you will be closer to Christ. I promise you that the financial burdens, family stresses, school burdens, or whatever trial you are facing will become easier as you give this thing up. Whatever you choose, make sure you remember it.
One great thing about this life, our experience on Earth, is choice. Our agency. Its such a wonderful thing. What a wonderful gift that we have to choose. Even in the pre-earth life chose. Out of everything we have, choice is really the only thing we have. Our things/stuff is not ours. Its not truly ours. We can say we do own them, but they can be taken away from us in any moment. Our body as well is not ours.
1 Corinthians 6
"19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
The only true thing we have that cannot be taken away is our agency.
Keep that in mind for my thought next week.
With Love,
Elder Sumsion
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