Dear familia,
Yesterday I was invited to share my missionary objective with you! So I will attempt to do that now and hopefully you will know why I am where I am.
I am to invite everyone to come unto Jesus Christ, everyone. Kinda like I said in my farewell talk, God loves everyone and wants to give everyone the opportunity to come unto him. I do this by helping them receive el Evanjelio Restorado through 5 things. #1 es faith in Jesucristo y his atonement. I love this one because it is the first step someone needs to take. And it is a big step for someone who has not learned to trust God in everything. I also love that it comes first because it helps guide you to the next step #2 arrepentimiento. As you grow your faith in Christ and his atonement you will gain the desire to repent. It will just happen naturally as it is the next step. After repentance is.... yup you guessed it! #3 bautismo (baptism)! This is the point when you commit to changing your life to be more intune with God. You make covenants to become like God and Christ, and the Lord will, absolutely will, bless you for your effort. And to help you in your covenants Padre Celestial has given us #4 la recepcion del don del Espíritu Santo (the gift of the Holy Ghost). The Holy Ghost helps guide us and shows us the right. It is up to us whether we choose the right or not. But if we do allow ourselves to follow promptings and do all things with glory to God we will be blessed. Doing these things is #5 el preseverar hasta el fin (enduring to the end). This combines everything, we need to continually show our faith and act on it (because it is an action word), we need to keep repenting everyday because no one is perfect. We need to remember our bapitsmal covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament, and finally need to try to have the Holy Ghost with us at all times. I testify if we do these things then we will return back to God.
These things will help us start to become perfect like God. If you look at the sermon on the mount in the bible and the one in the book of mormon they are pretty much the same except for one part. In the bible Christ says become perfect like God is. In the BOM Christ says become perfect like God and Christ. What's the difference? Wasn't Christ always perfect, like the perfect example etc? Well the difference was His resurrection. He wasn't fully perfect until resurrection. This is amazing to me because it shows that becoming perfect is a process, a process that even our Saviour had to go through. So remember that we need to be patient with ourselves as we endure to the end, because we can't become perfect all at once.
Wow sorry that was long haha, that was supposed to be a small exercise of sharing the missionary purpose lol.
Love you all!
Élder Spencer
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