" As I think about my mission, so much has happened. I've learned and changed so much. I feel like there literally aren't words to describe it. I feel like Mormon how he says 6 different times throughout the Book of Mormon that he can't write 'but a hundredth part' of what happened. Anytime someone asks me these questions that's how I feel. I can try but it will never do it justice. I am a new person than I was 2 years ago. I've grown so much. My faith in the Savior has increased exponentially. My charity for others has done the same. I feel that I've really learned how to rely on the Lord to receive revelation for how to best help other people come back to Heavenly Father. My testimony of the Savior is so strong, I don't know that I really had "my own" testimony of Jesus Christ before my mission and I learned so much about him on my mission from my mission presidents. But this last conference Elder Bednar said something that struck me. He said, "If all you know about the Savior is something that someone else has told you, your testimony is on a shaky foundation." That statement pierced my soul. I felt he was talking directly to me. (Remind me to tell you the experience I had on Easter Sunday when I get home.)
The Gospel of Jesus Christ means everything to me.
I remember being in my first area with Elder Kish and we talked about how both of us had realized just how important this message is. I know that only in and through obedience to the Gospel of Jesus Christ can we find true and lasting happiness in this life and eternal salvation in the next! Elder Bonvissuto told me multiple times "stop relating everything to the Gospel" haha. I didn't even realize I was doing it until he said something to me a few weeks ago. I realized and told him that the reason I relate everything to the Gospel is because the Gospel is everything! I don't know what my life would be like without it. Nor do I ever want to find out."
Elder Jantsen Thorpe
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