Hey guys hope you all had a good week!
It was a pretty good week here, I'm feeling better so that's good. Eldste Bennett and I have been trying to do a lot of finding this week! It's always good to get some new blood to teach but we found some pretty cool people which is always good. We had the confirmation of Kjell and Kim Daniel which was a super spiritual experience because you could physically feel the spirits presence enter in the room when the words receive the Holy Ghost were said in the prayer. So thankful I got to be apart of that with those two studs! We had some good lessons this week and we felt the spirit pretty strong, we had one where we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and what it really is. When we got to baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost I asked him how could having the holy ghost with you at times help you in your life? And he just said, "it would give me direction, hope and happiness". I just felt so much truth ring from that statement from a kid who has never thought about who God is or what Jesus Christ has done for us. Super excited to keep working with him!
I was listening to a talk that I love from Jeffery R. Holland called the " First and Great Commandment" this week and I read in the New Testament about when Christ comes back and sees his apostles fishing. When Christ tells them to cast their nets to the right side, they bring in loads of fish. I thought about why Christ did that and what it meant. And I love how Elder Holland explains it, he said, that christ can get any amount of fish or fame or fortune or whatever worldly thing he wanted with ease, he has the power do that, but that's not what he needs. What Christ needs is Dicicples that follow Him because that is the one thing Christ cannot choose for us. We have our free agency to choose so that is why He needs us to go preach the gospel unto all ends of the earth. I loved that and it hit me that this time I have here in Norway is specifically set aside to do exactly that, the Lords work. But being out here has made me realize how important it is to be a missionary wherever and whenever. It's not just the apostles who are called to preach repentance or the missionaries to help bring others to Christ it is everyone's job to help bring Gods children to experience the true and everlasting happiness of this knowledge and to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Love that idea and glad to be in a time of my life where it is set aside to doing that exact thing.
Love,
Eldste McSpadden
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