I
hope everything is well, and that you recognize the hand of God
in your lives every day. I certainly am getting better at that. Not
to mention that I haven’t burnt to a crisp yet. but really,
this last week has been one of many blessings and spiritual
experiences. I proud to report that I'm still going strong with my
goal to be like Nephi in all things and now going on 17 days of
keeping the morning schedule. We have seen a huge difference in our
investigators plus we have been blessed with 11 news since this all
started 2 weeks ago and broke the area record with 23 lessons this
week. The best thing of all is that we had 2 investigators make
it to church this week and loved it, even tho they are very devote Catholics.
As we draw closer to the Lord each day and show him that our studies are important to us, he will open up the secrets and the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, and if we act upon these secrets that are opened unto us, he will bless us with more..... I can not tell you how many times I have heard that in talks, teaching of Grandparents and parents, and leaders that have tried to drill that into my head, but for some reason I couldn’t understand what that fully meant. I mean don't get me wrong, I have a study journal and everything, and the stuff that i have written in there I always thought was spiritually inspired, but as I look over it now, i realize that it wasn't as i expected. There are some parts that are pretty inspired, and many other parts where i can now tell that i used more of my own intelligence with a portion of the spirit rather than just entirely the spirit. The difference between then and now is the relationship I have built with my Heavenly Father, and not doing just a "portion" of the things i need to do but as much as is possible to do. The more "portion" of the rules, laws, and teachings you follow, the more "portion" of the spirit you will have with you, and thus be able to receive the mysteries of heaven.
One of the things that I learned this week from my studies in the Book of Mormon is how right after receiving a blessing from the Lord, a righteous person would immediately go and give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Now I never have actually done that, just the kind of thing where if I remember to thank him for it in my prayers at night then it gets done, but I decided to try it out for myself. This week whenever I saw some kind of blessing in the work or in my life, I got down and gave thanks to my Heavenly Father, if there was any time that I couldn’t do it right then, I wrote it down, and once I had the time or was in a setting to pray, I did it. I found out that my Heavenly Parents have some of the same characteristics as my earthly ones do as in, they give more blessings to people who show gratitude for them. I would like to challenge you all this week to try this, see the blessings in your lives, act upon the promptings, and write down what you learned.
Other than that I wanted to thank everyone who sent me letters or packages this last 2 weeks. Im sorry I have not been super speedy in writing a response but can promise you that I will have them in the mail by next monday, thanks for all of your love and support.
Que Dios Les Bendiga,
Elder Stewart
As we draw closer to the Lord each day and show him that our studies are important to us, he will open up the secrets and the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, and if we act upon these secrets that are opened unto us, he will bless us with more..... I can not tell you how many times I have heard that in talks, teaching of Grandparents and parents, and leaders that have tried to drill that into my head, but for some reason I couldn’t understand what that fully meant. I mean don't get me wrong, I have a study journal and everything, and the stuff that i have written in there I always thought was spiritually inspired, but as I look over it now, i realize that it wasn't as i expected. There are some parts that are pretty inspired, and many other parts where i can now tell that i used more of my own intelligence with a portion of the spirit rather than just entirely the spirit. The difference between then and now is the relationship I have built with my Heavenly Father, and not doing just a "portion" of the things i need to do but as much as is possible to do. The more "portion" of the rules, laws, and teachings you follow, the more "portion" of the spirit you will have with you, and thus be able to receive the mysteries of heaven.
One of the things that I learned this week from my studies in the Book of Mormon is how right after receiving a blessing from the Lord, a righteous person would immediately go and give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Now I never have actually done that, just the kind of thing where if I remember to thank him for it in my prayers at night then it gets done, but I decided to try it out for myself. This week whenever I saw some kind of blessing in the work or in my life, I got down and gave thanks to my Heavenly Father, if there was any time that I couldn’t do it right then, I wrote it down, and once I had the time or was in a setting to pray, I did it. I found out that my Heavenly Parents have some of the same characteristics as my earthly ones do as in, they give more blessings to people who show gratitude for them. I would like to challenge you all this week to try this, see the blessings in your lives, act upon the promptings, and write down what you learned.
Other than that I wanted to thank everyone who sent me letters or packages this last 2 weeks. Im sorry I have not been super speedy in writing a response but can promise you that I will have them in the mail by next monday, thanks for all of your love and support.
Que Dios Les Bendiga,
Elder Stewart
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