From Dad 12/9
Good morning to some very fine young men in our lives,
We love missionary work. We love being with family. We are thankful we will have the opportunity to spend more time with family again. The work we are here to do is such a privilege. Having a calling where the Lord guides the path of our feet and our hearts is so awesome, but then don’t all of us have this same privilege?
Sister Meyer, who we truly hope one day will be a “sister”, opened her heart for what felt like the first time to consider does she want to be baptized. At the Christmas social Friday night one of the young missionaries, Elder Zern, told us later she came up to him and talked with him for a long time. He said she has never done that before. Daily Sister Meyer is opening her heart a little more. There is no longer a question in her feelings who Jesus Christ is and that He lives. We are now working on her understanding of who the Holy Ghost is. When she thinks about being able to know the truth of all things through the power of the Holy Ghost, she knows this great gift is what she wants. This coming Wednesday we will discuss more about Him.
In doing some home work for our meeting this coming week with Sister Meyer we visited yesterday with Thomas Mueller’s (the young man baptized in March who is going to school in California) dad about the Gift of the Holy Ghost mentioned several times in the New Testament. He and his wife are professional counselor’s working with priests and nuns in the Catholic church and are themselves very “catholic”. They are also very, very nice people. We asked what their church teaches about the Gift of the Holy Ghost. He thought for a long time and then he began to explain. It is sad. So many people in the world today live as Amos described, “a famine in the land of hearing the words of the Lord: they shall seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it”. He truly wanted to answer the question. Since they only believe in God they have no way to comprehend the mission of Jesus Christ or the mission of the Holy Ghost. The synergy (2 or more working together have the power and the strength to do three times the work what each individual working alone can ever accomplish) of the work of the three members in the Godhead has been lost to the eyes of the world. They have no way to understand what the thousand years of the millennium after Christ comes a second time is all about or what it is for. To understand how our Father in Heaven will be fair and just with all of His children since His first sons and daughters were born into this life is important. He has provided a way for each one to choose for him or herself whether they want to return and live with Him or not. This knowledge lies beyond the understanding of those who have not yet accepted that Jesus Christ personally under the authority given Him from our Father in Heaven has restored the fullness of His gospel again for us to review and make the necessary decisions daily with our lives.
Tomorrow we will meet with Anne Berner again. Last Monday she said her religion consists of trying to live the 10 commandments and that she accepts evolution is the way God created us and all living things in the earth. We also asked Thomas Mueller’s father about the acceptance of evolution by the Catholic church. He said they respect the work of Darwin and others and encourage their members to give God the credit for their work. So is the danger when men begin to mingle their ideas with the truths revealed by our Father in Heaven. In the German version of the Wikipedia encyclopedia on the internet it gives Darwin and those who have followed who planted the idea of a new beginning to create a better world than God had made the credit for originating in the hearts of men the power and the authority to seek to rule among men through Communism and Nazism. Giving God the credit for the atrocities committed under the leadership of the men bringing those two world powers into being in Russia and Germany is something I know our Father in Heaven does not want to receive.
Brother Vollrath said he will come to Church today. Yuka Matsumoto will play her violin today for ward conference. We hope it will be a good Sunday here. We hope your Sunday has been a good day too.
We love you guys and are thankful each day for everything you do to magnify your priesthood each of you carries before your fellowmen that they will want to glorify our Father in Heaven. The work as priesthood holders we are called to do needs no specific call or instructions other than those given in the Doctrine and Covenants. There we learn how best to walk each step of t he way with our Father in Heaven and how in the end without compulsion all that is good, all that we could ever hope to receive comes to us for ever and ever. Is it worth the effort to keep the commandments? How blessed we are not to be forced to make a choice one way or the other. We will be blessed for each good thing we do. We alone choose how many of our Father’s blessings we desire to receive from Him.
We pray daily for your happiness and that the spirit of love will dwell in your hearts and that you will always know you are your Father in Heaven’s son.
Have a great week.
We love missionary work. We love being with family. We are thankful we will have the opportunity to spend more time with family again. The work we are here to do is such a privilege. Having a calling where the Lord guides the path of our feet and our hearts is so awesome, but then don’t all of us have this same privilege?
Sister Meyer, who we truly hope one day will be a “sister”, opened her heart for what felt like the first time to consider does she want to be baptized. At the Christmas social Friday night one of the young missionaries, Elder Zern, told us later she came up to him and talked with him for a long time. He said she has never done that before. Daily Sister Meyer is opening her heart a little more. There is no longer a question in her feelings who Jesus Christ is and that He lives. We are now working on her understanding of who the Holy Ghost is. When she thinks about being able to know the truth of all things through the power of the Holy Ghost, she knows this great gift is what she wants. This coming Wednesday we will discuss more about Him.
In doing some home work for our meeting this coming week with Sister Meyer we visited yesterday with Thomas Mueller’s (the young man baptized in March who is going to school in California) dad about the Gift of the Holy Ghost mentioned several times in the New Testament. He and his wife are professional counselor’s working with priests and nuns in the Catholic church and are themselves very “catholic”. They are also very, very nice people. We asked what their church teaches about the Gift of the Holy Ghost. He thought for a long time and then he began to explain. It is sad. So many people in the world today live as Amos described, “a famine in the land of hearing the words of the Lord: they shall seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it”. He truly wanted to answer the question. Since they only believe in God they have no way to comprehend the mission of Jesus Christ or the mission of the Holy Ghost. The synergy (2 or more working together have the power and the strength to do three times the work what each individual working alone can ever accomplish) of the work of the three members in the Godhead has been lost to the eyes of the world. They have no way to understand what the thousand years of the millennium after Christ comes a second time is all about or what it is for. To understand how our Father in Heaven will be fair and just with all of His children since His first sons and daughters were born into this life is important. He has provided a way for each one to choose for him or herself whether they want to return and live with Him or not. This knowledge lies beyond the understanding of those who have not yet accepted that Jesus Christ personally under the authority given Him from our Father in Heaven has restored the fullness of His gospel again for us to review and make the necessary decisions daily with our lives.
Tomorrow we will meet with Anne Berner again. Last Monday she said her religion consists of trying to live the 10 commandments and that she accepts evolution is the way God created us and all living things in the earth. We also asked Thomas Mueller’s father about the acceptance of evolution by the Catholic church. He said they respect the work of Darwin and others and encourage their members to give God the credit for their work. So is the danger when men begin to mingle their ideas with the truths revealed by our Father in Heaven. In the German version of the Wikipedia encyclopedia on the internet it gives Darwin and those who have followed who planted the idea of a new beginning to create a better world than God had made the credit for originating in the hearts of men the power and the authority to seek to rule among men through Communism and Nazism. Giving God the credit for the atrocities committed under the leadership of the men bringing those two world powers into being in Russia and Germany is something I know our Father in Heaven does not want to receive.
Brother Vollrath said he will come to Church today. Yuka Matsumoto will play her violin today for ward conference. We hope it will be a good Sunday here. We hope your Sunday has been a good day too.
We love you guys and are thankful each day for everything you do to magnify your priesthood each of you carries before your fellowmen that they will want to glorify our Father in Heaven. The work as priesthood holders we are called to do needs no specific call or instructions other than those given in the Doctrine and Covenants. There we learn how best to walk each step of t he way with our Father in Heaven and how in the end without compulsion all that is good, all that we could ever hope to receive comes to us for ever and ever. Is it worth the effort to keep the commandments? How blessed we are not to be forced to make a choice one way or the other. We will be blessed for each good thing we do. We alone choose how many of our Father’s blessings we desire to receive from Him.
We pray daily for your happiness and that the spirit of love will dwell in your hearts and that you will always know you are your Father in Heaven’s son.
Have a great week.
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