"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you." George R. Zalucki
peoples' hearts are being prepared
Hey Sister Bassett,
It's Elder Turner. Well I wanted to tell you about the miracles I am seeing in my area right now. First I wanted to tell you about this man. He is from Georgia, and when I heard this guy talk about his life it touched me. He first told us that he is a walking miracle, because he was beat so badly the doctors though he was dead at the scene. He recovered and went over to California to try to start a new life, but he didn't like it. So he was just traveling around the states to find a place to stay. He passed over Winslow, and he said to himself that he didn't want to come here. But then he felt in his heart that he needed to go back and check out this town. He found where the nearest hospital was and come to find out that the Mormon church was right next to it.
When I was 14 or 15, I had a teacher that prided himself on being a thinker. We had some enlightening discussions in his classroom. He helped me ask some great questions that led to tremendous answers that still guide me today. We agreed on many things, but were at odds on a few. One of them was religion. I had a lot of respect for this man, but it amazed me that someone who claimed to be open minded was blind to just how closed minded he was when it came to God. He was always challenging my faith. He considered my beliefs to be a sign of my weakness. His claim was that unless it could be acknowledged by the 5 senses, there was no proof that God existed. I struggled as a young person to help him understand that he was limiting his understanding to what he had personally experienced, cutting himself off from other possibilities. The best that I could do was to try and help him understand how I knew; that things of the spirit could only be understood and perceived by the spirit. Years later, I still don't have a better answer to this one fundamental question, but I face the same dilemma. This blog is dedicated to preserving stories and experiences of missionaries in the Arizona Mesa Mission both during and after their formal missions. Some stories are fun and light hearted, but others are of a spiritual nature. The blog forum is so convenient, yet the format is limiting. There is more to these words than letters on a page. To truly understand the messages requires not only an open mind, but a soft heart.
After all, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a Heaven for?- Robert Browning"
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