Wow! The mission is the best! Yesterday i was able to call
cezar. We baptized him in December and he is doing so great. He told me is
starting his mission papers and just when he said that i just felt on top of
the world. I can tell you i have had some times in my life when i hit the
buzzer beater in basketball or caught monster fish and felt like nothing
could beat these feelings. But hearing cezar doing so well and preparing to go
just was a thousand times better then a buzzer beater or catching a 24 inch fish.
I just love him! He is going to do great!
Anyways this past week i was reading a story from the
bible and i'm guessing you guys have all heard it but i love the message it has.
The story is about Naaman and elisha. 2 kings 5 9-14
So naaman is a commander of the Syrian army and he had
leprosy. Well this is a disease that as you all of us know can be deadly. Back
then when the people had this disease they where like cast out and couldn't
really associate with people that were healthy. Long story short naaman ends up
going to Elisha who was a prophet. But when naaman get to his house Elisha
sends out his maid to tell him to go and bathe 7 times in the Jordan river.
When naaman heard that he was angry because he wanted Elisha to get rid of this
sickness immediately. So naaman he is a little reluctant and doesn't know why he
needs to wash himself in the dirtiest river. he ends up doing it and is healed.
So this can apply to us in different ways, one is faith and
the other is following the words of the prophets. We are so blessed to have a
prophet today who truly receives revelation from god. We are given advice
through prophets and i hope we can all have the faith to go in other words
running towards the water of Jordan and jump in and wash up. As we follow the
words of the prophets today we will always know the way. I would hope that all
of will not be reluctant to the words of our beloved prophets like naaman was.
Sometimes we don't understand the reasons for why we do the things we do but its
always for a reason. We should skip the reluctant part, put our trust in
the prophets, and act to show our faith immediately.
Elder Cleverley!
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