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vriendjes en vriendinnetjes,
Was quite the week. Transferweek in this mission is intens. Omdat de mission zo groot is duurt het een dag om van area te wisselen, and you usually take a plane to do so. So wednesday everybody came in. Mijn nieuwe companion Elder Larson is net 6weken op zending en hij komt uit een of ander boerendorp in Utah, USA. He's a nice kid I like him. Missionary work is iets wat niet alleen vanuit de missionaries moet komen. Het is the most succesfull when members are involved. When they bring investigators to the missionaries and join in with the teaching baptism and church growth will explode. But how do you, as a member, do missionary work? Do you go out and knock on doors or talk with people on the street? I won't stop you if you want to, but there is a far more effective way. This last sunday I was asked to give a talk about missionary work. So I did, and I would like to share what I talked about. You, the member, are kind of like Nephi. We all know that the Lord aspects from us that we do missionary work, we all know Nephi was commanded to go get some records (1Nephi chapter 3). I believe that the most of you are like Nephi: you want to go and do as the Lord commands. You want to do missionary work, you want to help people come unto Christ, you want to help the people around you experience more happiness. So just like Nephi you go and do. But you might have no idea how to do it. Nephi had no clue, all he knew was that he had to go back to Jerusalem and go get those records. How he was to obtain them, he did not know. So the first time the try, they fail.. second time the try, they fail.. Maybe you also tried, just like Nephi, but it didn't quite go how you expected it to be. But then how does Nephi figure out what to do? exactly in 1 Nephi 4 we read that he was let by the Spirit. Nephi had no idea, but the Lord knows it all. He followed the promptings of the Spirit and was able to obtain the records, to do what the Lord has commanded him. So let's apply this to you and to missionary work. Here in the West-Indies the people also receive guidance of the Lord, trough the mission president. He is their "Spirit" that shows them what they should do to succeed. the mission president has given us (as west-Indies) two laws that we need to keep to missionary work or to do "as the Lord commands". Keep the Sabbath day holy and keep the Law of the Fast. Today I have no time to type out what it means to do that. But I do know that the blessings that come will be more peace in your life, more happiness in the family and a real growth in the church. For that are the blessings the Lord has given trough the mouth of one of his servants!
Need to go, have a nice week!
Love,
Elder Thomas Bechan
Was quite the week. Transferweek in this mission is intens. Omdat de mission zo groot is duurt het een dag om van area te wisselen, and you usually take a plane to do so. So wednesday everybody came in. Mijn nieuwe companion Elder Larson is net 6weken op zending en hij komt uit een of ander boerendorp in Utah, USA. He's a nice kid I like him. Missionary work is iets wat niet alleen vanuit de missionaries moet komen. Het is the most succesfull when members are involved. When they bring investigators to the missionaries and join in with the teaching baptism and church growth will explode. But how do you, as a member, do missionary work? Do you go out and knock on doors or talk with people on the street? I won't stop you if you want to, but there is a far more effective way. This last sunday I was asked to give a talk about missionary work. So I did, and I would like to share what I talked about. You, the member, are kind of like Nephi. We all know that the Lord aspects from us that we do missionary work, we all know Nephi was commanded to go get some records (1Nephi chapter 3). I believe that the most of you are like Nephi: you want to go and do as the Lord commands. You want to do missionary work, you want to help people come unto Christ, you want to help the people around you experience more happiness. So just like Nephi you go and do. But you might have no idea how to do it. Nephi had no clue, all he knew was that he had to go back to Jerusalem and go get those records. How he was to obtain them, he did not know. So the first time the try, they fail.. second time the try, they fail.. Maybe you also tried, just like Nephi, but it didn't quite go how you expected it to be. But then how does Nephi figure out what to do? exactly in 1 Nephi 4 we read that he was let by the Spirit. Nephi had no idea, but the Lord knows it all. He followed the promptings of the Spirit and was able to obtain the records, to do what the Lord has commanded him. So let's apply this to you and to missionary work. Here in the West-Indies the people also receive guidance of the Lord, trough the mission president. He is their "Spirit" that shows them what they should do to succeed. the mission president has given us (as west-Indies) two laws that we need to keep to missionary work or to do "as the Lord commands". Keep the Sabbath day holy and keep the Law of the Fast. Today I have no time to type out what it means to do that. But I do know that the blessings that come will be more peace in your life, more happiness in the family and a real growth in the church. For that are the blessings the Lord has given trough the mouth of one of his servants!
Need to go, have a nice week!
Love,
Elder Thomas Bechan
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