Dear family and friends,
It has been one of those crazy weeks this week. This last Monday we had interviews with president and did some fun things like go to the center of Sevilla and play some board games. Wednesday and Thursday we had intercambios in Malaga and when we got back Thursday night we assisted a district leader training meeting and gave a little workshop thing. Friday morning we had a tri-zone missionary conference with a third of the mission.Saturday evening we had the stake conference priesthood session and the adult session with Elder Suarez of the quorum of the 70. Sunday morning Elder Suarez spoke to all the missionaries in the stake and later to the whole stake in general. So yeah... pretty full week!
Well even though all of these activities were pretty fun and exciting, I personally would like to share what I treasure the most out of all of this, and that is what I felt and learned throughout it all. Well I honestly don't know who all reads my emails considering it's my mother who sends these emails to everyone, but for all those who are not too familiar with the church, the fist paragraph of this email probably makes no sense and I apologize for that, I do wish to explain the purpose of a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also, for all of those who are missionaries I would like you to take note as well.
As a "set apart" (or in other words set apart from the world) missionary of this church, you are called to invite others to come unto Christ. Now with this said I want us to all think, why?
Now really there is no exact answer, but I do wish to share something that I feel could be one of the answers.
In Moses 1:39 it is God speaking to Moses and it says that "For behold, this is my work and my glory--to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."
We learn in this scripture that our Father in Heaven receives glory when we do the things necessary to receive eternal life. So when Jesus Christ died for us so that we could repent and revive eternal life he was giving glory to our Father in Heaven. So as missionaries, even know we can't pay for people's sins, what we can do, is help them receive eternal life by teaching them the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and inviting them to come unto Him and receive eternal life and in turn we are giving glory to God. I hope I am explaining myself well. As we help bring soles unto Christ we glorify our Father in Heaven.
Now with this said, as missionaries we share this message with EVERYONE. Did you notice that I capitalized the word EVERYONE? Because it is important. We talk to EVERYONE, and we don't justify the word EVERYONE. EVERYONE is EVERYONE... The reason we do this is because we love God. We love our Savior Jesus Christ. We know this message we share will bless EVERYONE who will listen.
I hope this email doesn't seem too strong but I do wish that everyone that reads this email knows that I love my Father in Heaven and I am not afraid to share this gospel with everyone... so look out Spain....
I love you all! Be safe and do what's right!
Elder Owens
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