Dear President and Sister Bassett,
Merry Christmas. This week was a week of miracles for us. To be short in writing, it was a week that taught me a lot about acting in faith. Elder Kunz and I are striving (and struggling, believe me) to work from the moment we get up in order to receive the Spirit and to teach with it in order to invite those the Lord has put in our path to act and thus receive a witness from God to the truth of these things. We set three more baptismal dates, were able to see the Lord open the way to help an investigator come to church, receive power and guidance through prayer and fasting, and many, many other miracles. I want to keep this short and my time is up, but I want you to know that I am grateful for you and your diligent service to the Lord. I love your family and pray for you. Have a merry Christmas!
Elder R
**I love these missionaries! They are so supportive of us, how can we not love them? Elder M is especially humble-can't you just feel it?
"Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you." George R. Zalucki
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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"
After all, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a Heaven for?- Robert Browning"
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