(Jord sent this too her brothers, but I thought it was good for us all)
ok you lil weenies. Prepare for a SERIOUS awakening when I get home. I'm going to whip your lil butts into missionary shape!!!
Are you becoming a missionary NOW? Are you living a missionary lifestyle NOW? are you sharing the gospel when you can? are you praying for opportunities to share? are you reading your scriptures daily? Studying Preach My Gospel? DOING YOUR HOME TEACHING??
The whole time Elder Bednar was speaking about Hastening the Work and the WORK involved, I was thinking of my lil bros!!! and getting yous PREPARED.
He told a ridiculously awesome story of going on a "convert retention" mission with his son. He went to Bolivia, poorest country in world, and was visiting a family who had remained active and stalwart members who basically spent 6 months salary on this meal for them in their one room house with 7 of them living there. First thought "how can we help them" which he said was the WORST question he could ask himself, tell you why later. So they have dinner and they ask if they can give the kids candy (brought little jolly ranchers) waiting for a fight from the kids. instead line up and each take one. no "wait, that's not the color I wanted! I want to go first! mines ugly blah blah blah" so he's like ok, well they must not even REALIZE they could have more than one. So they ask the parents "can we give them the whole bag?" they're like bewildered WHY would you want to give them the whole bag, but sure! so hes thinking HERE is the real fight, now they'll argue over who gets more etc. Gives the bag....they instantly run out and start passing them all out to their friends. NEVER occurred to them they could take more than one. Never occurred to them to fight over that, because when you have NOTHING, the important things start to matter.
He had one of those "what if" moments and he thought well what if this family could follow us around for 3 days. Put them in a black SUV and just follow our lives. From piano practice, to football, to dinners, to events. etc. "when should we be ready for morning family prayer?" Oh, we don't have that, only some days, because we are too busy, schedules too crazy, only on Sundays sometimes. And he imagined that little family walking into the bedroom, closing the door, and saying "how can we help them?"
"in the midst of nothing temporally, they got it spiritually."
He also talked about his recent visit to the Congo, NO MISSIONARIES because of the political turmoil, JUST ORGANIZED ITS 7th STAKE. No missionaries, ever. But they GET it. They share the gospel, on their own, because they KNOW what is important.
Shared these not to make us feel guilty, but to recognize the Hastening and if we will keep the pace.
SO MUCH MORE but i'll leave that for now.
Remember what is important, and how you were FOREORDAINED to the Preisthood. And if you question if you should serve a mission, its because you don't realize WHO you are yet. A son of our Heavenly Father. You've been ready forever, you made the decision before you were born.
You know you are getting ready when you don't "duck" opportunities. (meaning don't duck opps to share the gospel whenever you can. Whether to less actives, or non-members)
LOVE YA LIL WEENIES!
xoxoxox
sis Murr
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