4/28/16

So Elder Oaks came to speak to us at our weekly devotional Tuesday night. It was really cool. The coolest part for me was singing in the choir. Ok so yeah, my comp dragged me to choir but everyone was like it's your only chance to be in the MTC choir so make the most of it so yeah whatever. It was really cool. We sang Josephs Smiths First Prayer last week and that was really powerful. This week we sang the missionary medley, which is an arrangement of I Hope They Call Me On A Mission, Army Of Helaman, and Called to Serve. And one other song I didn't know. But it was such a cool experience, like even tho I can't sing, you can still sing with testimony and it will ring out just as strongly. 

So I had one cool experience with an investigator this week that I'll share. So we got new TRCs this week and one of them is Landon. And he is super awesome and like early 20s and goes to BYU and yatta yatta. Long story short, he had a problem that was keeping him from believing everything else that I didn't know how to fix. And so  we went into a lesson this week with him and I pretty much went in with the attitude of like Heavenly Father, I am all yours. Anything you need me to say to this young man, I'll do it. Like this is your lesson, I'm just your mouthpiece. And so about halfway through the lesson, I felt like I needed to share a scripture but I didn't have one prepared so I said to myself like welp, here I go. I'm just gonna open my scriptures and hope Heavenly Father directs me to one that Landon needs. And so I randomly opened it and read the first highlighted verse and it was exactly what we were talking about and exactly what he needed. He even said at the end of our lesson that He had never met missionaries that have shared those scriptures with him. And I explained to him that it really has nothing to do with us. 

We are just mouthpieces for Heavenly Father and anything we share with him are things straight from Heavenly Father to him. That is one of the coolest parts of being a missionary. We are blessed with such power and authority to teach of Christ and promise blessings in His name. There are only two types of people that are authorized to officially teach like this, and that is the apostles and missionaries. I think. I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure I heard that somewhere. Anyways. The power of missionaries is a real thing and I feel beyond blessed to have it. The gospel of Christ is a real thing that changes and blesses peoples lives. Allow it to change yours as well. I leave for Ohio on Monday and yeah, exciting things!

-Sister Peardon