We tried to pass to the missionaries that we need to be more bold in our invites to members, in every opportunity we have to teach the members we have to invite them to do something like it says in chapter 11 of preach my gospel. In the beginning of my mission my lunch messages were weak and they didnt do anything to really edify the members, but now we are trying to really leave message that will help the member feel the spirit, and then have a natural desire to act and go share the gospel. In PMG it says that doctrine when it is truly understood will change behavior faster than anything else and that has been Presdent Silvas focus his whole mission, to teach us doctrine. So as missionaries we dont have a lot of authority when it comes to the wards but we are aloud to teach the doctrine that comes from the scriptures. We have been praying to find inspiring messages about missionary work and it is ridiculous how many you can find. There are so many great ones. I love the scriptures!
I was studying Jacob chpt. 5 the other day and I was thinking ah this is too difficult to understand in portuguese so i moved on to chapter 6 and when i got to verse three it put me right back into jacob 5 and it turned out to be an awesome study!
Jacob chapter 5 talks about the parable of the Lord and the Vineyard. I love how in verse 47 it shows how sad the Lord was that he lost the vineyard again and he asks, is there any more i could have done? Then it goes on to explain how the Lord decided one more time to go down into the vineyard and nurture it again. But it would be the last time. Then I went to D&C 101:55-58 and there we learned that because it was the last time the Lord was going to pick the best to go down and accomplish the work!
In verse 55 it says that we were the WARRIORS in the pre existence! We were the strength of the Lords house. And something really cool is in section 103:21 that explains to us that the servant that the Lord commanded to go grab us and take with him to the vineyard was Joseph Smith. In section 138, Joseph F. Smith explains in the vision he saw that we were being taught our first lessons before we came. We were specifically prepared to come down here and work in the Vineyard with the Lord and help him to make it good again! And we were trained by Gods to be able to accomplish that!
So we gotta make sure that we are always trying to share the gospel because as Joseph Smith said it is our most important duty! We gotta bring as many souls back to our Heavenly Father as possible!
But anyways I love the scriptures and I am so thankful for so many examples in my life of people who study the scriptures and love them and treasure them! Kevin W. Pearsons talk is powerful and we gotta follow it! My dad sent me an email telling me to read it for the third time on my mission and i am glad for that! We gotta read the scritpures so that we can know the mysteries of God for ourselves!
Elder Sierras, the General Secretary here, and I had an awesome experience this week. We were studying a topic in the scriptures and we had a question and we wanted to ask President Silva about it so we went in his office and asked him. We didnt tell him about the scriptures that we were studying but we just asked the question. And it was hilarious because he kind of went off onto a different subject and we were bummed because he wasnt answering directly but then he said lets open up a random scripture and see how we can relate it to our mission here. He closes his eyes, opens up his book of mormon and picks the exact scripture that we were reading right before entering into his office! And we didnt say anything before hand!
Sierras and I just looked kind of shocked and we told him what just happened and he just kind of responded, "see what i mean?" haha. But i just re read the story in my email and i dont have a lot of time and just realized it didnt make a lot of sense but oh well! The mission is awesome and the things that we are allowed to learn out here are incredible! I love this place!
Rubens is great and is fasting this week so he can get his day off work as Sunday! And I think Flavia is gonna come back! they just gotta get enough money for her to buy the ticket back! Super happy! They are the ones that are progressing the most!
But i love you all, and hope you have a great week! The Gospel is true and if we do our best to follow it we are happy! And it is as simple as that!
Elder Keller
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