Buenos Días everybody!!
This has been a really long and a
rather unproductive week for my companion and I... The first day I got
sick and that meant we had to stay home... both of us... I now have
allergies due to the changing of the seasons here. We´re going into
Spring, which is annoying because I did that once already this year! But
oh well, we can at least leave the house and proselyte! But that one day off
really put us behind! We are hoping to just kick it into gear this week
and work a ton!!
So one of the major highlights of
this week was General Conference! I was really afraid that I wouldn´t
understand any of it, because it would all be translated to Spanish! But
lucky for me the stake gave the fairly new missionaries a room so we could understand
the prophet and apostles!! It was such a spiritual weekend, and my
testimony strengthened so much!! I´ve planned to use the notes I took
from conference, the copy of the Liahona church magazine with all the copies of
the talks, and my own personal testimony to write a small book over the next 6
months about how I can apply this conference to my life and the lives of my
family and friends!
I would now like to share my
testimony with all of you, something I need to learn to do more often.
I know that the things I teach down
here in Chile are true. The Church is true. Everything that
President Thomas S. Monson tells us in conference is true. If I did not
know these things for myself I would not be down here. Nothing else would
be worth it. There is so much time and effort that goes into this, I´d
have given up by now if I didn´t know that what I´m teaching is true! I
know that the family is a central part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and I
know that we can live with our families forever in Heaven through the right
authority and covenants. This is why I have given up my family for 2
years. So that others can live with there’s for an eternity! This
is one of the greatest blessings ever. I know that we can also offer our
ancestors the opportunity to live with us forever too through family history
work and work in the temple. This is a fulfillment of the Scripture in
Malachi 4:6 "And he shall turn the heart of
the fathers to the children, and the heart of
the children to their fathers..."
Lastly I know that the Atonement was necessary. Because of
it we can "come unto Christ, and be perfected in him"
(Moroni 10:32) We owe him our lives and we need to work our best to
return to him. I love you all, and strive to give you all the same love
our Savior would.
I leave my testimony with you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Elder
Forsgren
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