I just want to start by saying that my other area walking it was maybe an hour to get from one side to the other. This area it’s a good two hours. The good part is that we have a lot of neat things in our district that my companion and I are planning on seeing when we have money.
So this area just got done baptizing about 5 people and my companion and I are now in the process of looking for new people to teach and help receive their own personal conversion. We have been blessed to have an ex-missionary that is a perfect example of how we never stop being missionaries. Basically all of his friends are new people for us and they all want to be baptized and have been to church a bunch of times it’s just a matter of finding the courage to be an example to your family.
This leads me to my study this for this week. I have been thinking a lot about what it takes to have the desire or courage to change in our lives. I want to invite you all to study this week and share with me what you find. I have find that it all starts with our motivation and what we want in our lives. The lord will supply the mediums in our lives to accomplish it. So I went to the topical guide in the bible to see what scriptures connect to desire and it connected to the words motivation and purpose. I found some really amazing scriptures in this study and one of them was in Ecclesiastes 3:1 that says: To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. I know that sometimes in our lives we want certain things to happen. In this case we want everyone to accept the decision that we have made to be baptized but sometimes we need to have faith that the lord has a plan for us and when it’s right they will accept your choice and maybe be baptized at first. Sometime when we stand up for our faith we stand alone.
We have amazing power as sons and daughters of god we have the ability to control ourselves and our attitude no one else can tell us what we are thinking or how we feel. There are two scriptures that I really love in 2 Corinthians 10: 5, 7 The first talks about how we have to power to control our thoughts and by extension how we feel because we have this potential. In the second scripture it asks an amazing question and makes the statement that we are Christ and if we are Christ we will not look at other people as any less than we are because we all belong to him.
I love that every day I have a chance to serve people. We don’t just teach people we help people in whatever way that we can. There are days when I feel that I have nothing in me and I am completely exhausted these days I feel that I have done everything that I could to serve him.
I know that this church is true and I know that it can and will change your lives if you let it. All you need is a sincere desire to find out for yourselves if this is true. I have seen the changes in the people here I could give you a million examples and share a million testimonies about how I know these things in my very core but I invite you all to find out for yourselves. In the first book of Nephi he gives us a promise that I want to extend to you:
For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round.
I love you all! Seek for yourselves.
Elder Packham
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