On October 6 Hermana VanWie shared these thoughts with us. She returns home November 19th --
Querida
Familia y amigos --
We received our transfer calls this week! Drum Roll......Hermana Jimenez
and I are staying together another transfer here in Kerman!!! YAY!! This week
we had some wonderful opportunities to be taught by the Spirit and help others
be taught by the Spirit.
We received a surprise phone call from A and J this week. They invited us
for dinner and we had Posole!! It was amazing!! It was Posole Verde. I had
never had it before but it was wonderful! While we were there we taught about
the Holy Ghost. Because we had been in their home serving them this past week,
their children have become more comfortable with us. Their 6 year old daughter
Jtalked to me all of dinner and then was very excited to help with the lesson.
It was amazing to see her awe when we explained the role of the Holy Ghost as a
protector using water and pepper and soap. It was wonderful to be able to have
the whole family involved and understand.
We also had
a member home lesson with two new investigators. It was wonderful to see the
children of this member family teach about the Restoration and the Book of
Mormon. There was a sweet Spirit there as the 9 year old bore simple testimony of
the truths he had come to know are true.
We had a wonderful opportunity as well to watch the new movie "Meet
the Mormons." It was fantastic! It follows the lives of 6
people/families: A humanitarian in Nepal, a football coach of the Navy football
team, a missionary mom, a bishop in Georgia, a fighter in Costa Rica, and the
candy bomber from WWII. It was so uplifting! It showed how global the church is
and how the gospel of Jesus Christ is part of their everyday lives. It did not
preach church doctrine, but it showed how the gospel of Jesus Christ is an
essential part of their lives. We are so excited to be able to have other
people see it starting on October 10. You should go see it!!!
We had a wonderful lesson with a girl named S this week as well. She is
from India and a non-Christian background. We have been teaching her for some
time now. This week we finally found her again and had a powerful lesson about
prophets and how we can know the Book of Mormon is true. It was wonderful to
see in her eyes the desire to know for certain. As we testified and promised
that she would receive an answer, the Spirit was very strong and she committed
to pray and come to General Conference.
General Conference was definitely the highlight of the week! For
missionaries, it is like the World Cup in Soccer or the SuperBowl in
Football!! (General
Conference is broadcast via internet and television and people all
over the world got to hear from our prophet, apostles and other church leaders.
They broadcast the conference online and via satellite. This link will take you
to the talks she refers to: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2014/10?cid=HPSU100514465&lang=eng )
I love General Conference! We had 3 investigators come to General Conference:
A, S, and A and her children. We were able to watch one of the session with the
Bishop and his family and then they also had A and her family there for one of
the sessions! Some of the highlights from General Conference for me were:
Sister Esplin's talk on the Sacrament and how it is not only to remember the
repentance part of the Atonement, but the enabling part of the Atonement;
President Uchtdorf's talk on how to know if the Book of Mormon is true and how
gaining a testimony (or gathering spiritual light) is a quest of a lifetime and
if we do our part, the testimony will come; Elder Callister's talk on the
importance of a Christ-centered home; Elder Scott's talk on 4 tools to secure
our lives in the Atonement of Jesus Christ; Elder Godoy's talk about how to
back decisions in our lives; and Elder Bednar's talk addressed to those who are
not members of the church but also to those who are members on how to be more
missionary minded--feeling the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives.
My testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ has been strengthened as I
have studied it in the scriptures, heard about it from the Apostles and
Prophets, taught about it to others, and as I have learned to apply it in my
life. I know with all my heart and soul that Jesus Christ is my Savior and
Redeemer. He lived and He died for me and for you. He knows and understands me
perfectly. He knows how to help me overcome my challenges. He will lift me up
when I turn to Him. His Atonement is infinite and eternal. It cleanses us from
our sins and from our short comings. It allows us to forgive ourselves and
others. But even more so, it allows us to become the people that our Heavenly
Father sees us becoming. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can reach our
divine potential. We can do hard things. And we can become better everyday.
I love my
Savior! How grateful I am to be doing His work! Gracias por todo lo que hacen
para mi y los otros misioneros!
Que Dios los
bendiga y los cuida!
Los quiero mucho!
Con amor,
Hermana VanWie
After all that the Mormon Church itself has now Officially admitted, confirmed and printed about Joseph Smith Jr., like:
ReplyDelete• He took the wives of other Men.
• He could have sex with the wives of other Men.
• He took a 14 year-old girl as a wife when he was 38.
• He broke the laws of the God and Man in taking these Young Girls and the Wives and Mothers of his Friends.
• He lied to his first wife (Emma) and ALL of the other wives as well, and to his own Church about his practice of Polygamy.
• He lied to the Husbands of the Women he took as Wives.
• He took sets of Sisters and Mothers and Daughters as Wives.
• He took between 30 and 40 wives, so Brigham Young had to take 55 wives, and the Church named a School after him.
• Then the Mormon Church itself lied about Joseph Smith’s Polygamy for more than 180 years.
After all this and more… the Leadership of Young Women General Presidency of the Mormon Church has instructed… in YOUR LIFETIME, the millions of Young Women in the Mormon Faith, that Joseph Smith Jr. … Yes, Joseph Smith Jr., is the Example of man to seek as a Husband.
Read for yourself the fact that this “Female Mormon Leader” told the world, and specifically her 16 year-old daughter “Becky” that, “I believe the most important quality to look for in a husband is Integrity.” Like that of Joseph Smith Jr.
This so-called adult “Leader” told the Young Women of the Mormon Church that, Joseph Smith Jr. was the example and she even quoted a line that the Young Men of the Mormon Church might be able to use someday when dating someone like “Becky”: “If Joseph Smith could do it, so can I!.”
Are you kidding me? Who would ever in their right mind repeat the phrase: “If Joseph Smith could do it, so can I!.”
Can the Young Men of the Mormon Church meet the standard of Joseph Smith? I believe so… the Young Men of BYU have demonstrated that they know well how to handle “Becky” with knowledge that the Police and their Bishops will cover for them.
Sister Carol B. Thomas, then the First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is what I would call an Enabler for a group of First Class Sexual Predators.
With a Mother and a Youth Leader like this… “Becky” does not have a chance in the world of Mormonism.
Former Mormon Bishop Lee B. Baker
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/04/integrity?lang=eng