Section 42

So I feel like I waited to long to do this blog.  I read it today durring my time between my two classes, but I goofed off when I got home, so lets see how much I have retained from reading.

This section hit parts of my testimony. 

I LOVE how it talked about missionary work.  I just had a friend who just YESTERDAY reported into the MTC.  I am so proud of him.  in verse 6 "...ye shall go forth in the power of my Spirit, preaching my gosple two by two, in my name lifting up your voices..."  Missionary work is so importent.  I'm not sure how many people know this but on my dads side of the family, his family was the first to join the church.  Yea, from what I have seen, they aren't all perfect (you can tell from my dad) but they started something.  His parents let the missionarys into their home and they joined the church.  We don't need to look at how active the family is.  My grandma has basicly fished our geneology for that side of the family, and me and my brothers and cousins have done the temple work.  So from two missionarys, we have saved many people, and done the work they didn't have the chance to on this earth.  Becuase of those missionary's that knocked on my father's family door, I am a memeber of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I have no clue where I would be without it, most diffenitly not here typing this blog. 

I love how it mentions that we are to teach from the bible and the book of mormon.  It says right there that we read, study, and believe in the words of both books as many people believe we do not.  AND I am pretty excited to start my study of the bible, I have been failing on my personal scripture study lately, I need to start back up, sry that really doesnt have much to do with the topic, but I am excited. 

"prayer of faith; and if ye receive not the spirit ye shall not teach."  I think that is just a really good and importent reminder that we need to be teaching by the spirit, not by us, but that the spirit is the best teacher and that we need it in all that we do and say.  With the spirit it will help carry out message out to the hearts of those we are teaching.  Again I cannot wait till section 88, i think in an earlier blog I said 118, that is on of the verses so I appologize for the confusion, it is section 88 that I LOVE (along with the whole gosple and teachings I have here to read!!). 

And of course another reminder about repenting.  We are told some of the commandments that we are to obey, and about repentice and as long as we repent we can be forgiven.  BUT here they go a step fearther. It talks about repentince process a little bit, and disaplinary councials.  That when you do some things, it takes more then just a prayer to fix, that sometimes you need help from higher authorities, like your bishop. 

Blessings.  I had my first blessing of healing in, many years.  So it had a little verse on that and then went on about having faith.  If you don't have the faith to be healed, you wont be, that yes you are getting a blessing from the Lord, but you have to have faith or it wont help.  Heavenly Father is big on the you gotta have faith in me and that I can help you or I wont help you just to prove I can.  So if you want his help, you gotta have faith in him.  It seems like an easy concept, but for a lot of people it is hard.  I mean look at exsamples in the bible and the book of mormon.  The people wouldn't believe until they had a sign or something, they are constintly complelled to be humble.  I am not saying that I am perfect, Heavenly Father, I am sure, has a fun time with me.  He knows me so well.  I am sure him and I would joke around all the time before I came to Earth, so he is now having his fun with me, but he knows that I can do it, or he wouldn't have me doing this. 

Bishops store house, tithing/fast offerings.  I know they are put to the best use they can get.  I pay mine, yea what little I have, becuase even though I have nothing, I have more then some do.  And I give that offering so that someone else may see another day.  Because I know somehow, I will, Heavenly Father wont take anyone out of this world until they have compleatetd their task for being here.  I know FOR A FACT that I will be on this earth until my work is done, and I know I have a work, I am not fully sure what he has planed but, I have been told and promised things for "when [I] have finshed [my] work on the earth".

I have a strong testiomony and a firm belife in the things in the section.  I know that this church is true.  And everyday my testimony grows stronger and stronger, my candle burns brighter and brighter.  I hope it never stops.