THE POWER AND NEED OF THE SPIRIT
¡Hola! mis queridos hermanos y hermanas familiares y amigos. How are you? how has your week been? For me this week has been another hard one but as its is being made known to me the hard week are the greatest teachers.
First off The Hermana Magarita is doing super well. She loves this gospel and has such a desire to follow Christ. Its rejuvenating to see her energy. Her and her daughter Belén have accepted all of the commandments have taken with love the book of Mormon and the church while Belén has chosen to wait for her baptism, Magarita is progressing so well to her date of the 14th of November. Everyone is super excited for her. The family is so good and they have so much help from the members it’s the perfect example of how missionary work should be initial contact by member invited to activities by members introduced to the gospel by members formal teaching by the missionaries and finally baptism done by the members. I hope all of you member out there who are reading this know the great power you have the great force you are to share this gospel YOU are the important key YOU make the difference and I love all of YOU for doing it just as I love this family that brought Margarita to love the gospel.
This week I learned two great lessons- first then necessity of the spirit. The power is amazing. The spirit has sadly this week. I felt some time that the spirit was not with us. Wow and does it make a difference. The spirit is very easily offended and will leave quickly if we are not careful. Sometimes it’s just as easy as us being angry that makes the spirit go and sometimes it’s the actions of others that makes the spirit go. But, when it goes, all the guidance and all of the strength it gives to us also goes with it. Truly the spirit does more then we think. Sometimes we limit the spirit just to a whispering voice but really it’s so much more than that. The spirit has the power to the renewing of our bodies (in other words giving us extra strength when we need it.) It protects us from evils (not just help us choose between good and bad but to even keep the bad from getting near us) and the well known whispering which is just as necessary as any other part of the spirits jobs. It is so necessary in our lives. No one gets it for free it comes only if invited and waited for weather missionary or normal personal all must invite him and wait for him to come.
Secondly is about the atonement. We all know about the famous prayer. ´´father if thou wilt pass this cup from me but not my will but thine be done´´ and then he suffered then he came out and woke his apostles after waking him he turns back again and goes into the garden to suffer again. Can you imagine that turning back to face that garden knowing what is coming? Knowing the pain and suffering and walking back anyway. We can imagine that the first time he didn’t know what was coming but the second time he knew he knew perfectly well the pain that was coming but walked back anyway. And why did he do it? Because it was the will of the father. I think more than the words ´´not my will but thine be done´´ it was the act of him walking back into the garden that showed that truly he sought only the father will. I believe we all have faced that point we in the midst of a trial we say to ourselves ´´no no more I’m and done with this I don’t want to go out and face it again´´ maybe it comes as we wake up in the morning and we wish to stay in bed and hide away from the day. Maybe it comes and we are in work and we don’t want to go home and face problems. for me in came in the bathroom with a strong desire not to face the problems with my comp any more. It can even come within the walls of the temple as we wish to stay and not face the world’s problems anymore. it comes for all of us. It is in those times when we show to our father in heaven ´´not my will but thine be done´´ to say ´´´father if you want me to suffer I will suffer if I need to do this I will do it´´ even if we don’t want to do it we must do it. the savior has said ´´should I not drink of the cup which my father hath given me´´ The father has given each of us our cup... our bitter cup... let us drink it with face not doubting just trusting and one day we will hear the father say to us ´´behold my beloved son (or daughter) in whom I am well pleased´´
That we may all (myself included) learn to develop this faith and walk back into our problems willing to drink the cup the father hath given us.
I hope you all have a great week and stay strong
-Elder Harrison
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