August 31, 2015
Before talking about Elder Christofersen
something I forgot to tell you about last week was that my companion and I
almost got struck by lightning literally 5 minutes after writing you guys about
not dying.... ha ha, a lightning bolt came and landed about 3 feet in front of
us.... and if that isn’t a sign that we are being protected by the Lord I don’t
know what is.... ha ha
As for this week Elder Christofersen came to our
mission and we had an amazing mission conference with him, he taught us a lot
about the last commission that Christ made to his apostles and that today the
people who carry out this commission are the 15 brethren, the 70s and us... or
in other words we are companions to the general authorities. He also taught us
that every missionary needs the spirit of revelation, the spirit of prophecy
and the holy order of God. He taught us what each one of those meant and gave
us multiple scriptures to use. One of the biggest things that I pulled away and
want to apply is this concept I wrote about to President this week:
"As for what I learned from Elder
Christofersen something that hit me hard is when he said "We need to have
a firm testimony of every principle we teach in order for the spirit to testify
of our words. I am filling out my own "registro de enseñanza, and this
change and I’m going to finish. I have 3 columns to check off 1) When I have
finished reading that principle and all the scriptures about that principle in
preach my gospel. 2) When I have memorized 1 scripture for that principle. 3) I
am going to kneel and ask my heavenly father for a strong testimony for each principle.
That way I will mark off each one of the 42 principles that we teach and after
passing off each principle I am going to write down my testimony in my study
journal about each principle."
It was a great experience not only to be with Elder Christofersen
but also to be there as mission, all of us together singing "called to
serve" the spirit was so strong in that moment and it made me feel such a
love for the mission that I am in and what this mission has meant to me. I love
it with all my heart and I loved seeing all my friends that I have made here in
the mission.
I love you all and hope you are all having a great week. I will post
a lot of photos so don’t worry!! Love you all!!
Love,
Elder Adams
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