Hello All!
I hope you've had a great week and a truly inspiring General Conference
weekend! (Congratulations to Elder Deric Beacco for being in the
awesome missionary choir! It was so good to see him) Conference is such
an incredible blessing, and I wish I'd though of it more as that
blessing before my mission. For two days, about 10 hours, we have the
opportunity to hear from God's servants. And, as He tells us in D&C
1:38, "whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same." Man, He really loves us to give us that chance to hear His words! I learned a lot, but I'll share more about that in a bit.
The work is going well as always! We were pretty busy this week with
meetings and other mission-related stuff, but we were still blessed with
chances to help people come unto Christ.
Jansley is all set to be baptized on Saturday. We have one more lesson
with him, then his interview, and then he's good. I continue to be
grateful for his sweet and humble spirit; he's just a good kid. I know
we have a lot to learn from our younger brothers and sisters, and it's
always a privilege to be able to teach one.
We were also finally able to see Josie and Clayton again yesterday!
They've been going through a rough time lately, so we went by yesterday
evening to drop off some cookies and see how they were doing. We had a
good time with them, and will hopefully be going by for a lesson on
Wednesday. Though they've gone through a lot of trials, they've let it
humble them and lead them to Christ. I wish I was better at doing that
in my life.
Mauricio and Audrey are both
doing well. We saw each of them at General Conference, and they seemed
to enjoy it. I'm sure that's got to be a crazy new experience for them,
but I know there was something in it for them, specifically.
I bet you probably noticed that there were a lot of talks about
prophets, and especially President Monson, during Conference. I don't
know why that was, but I'm sure there's a reason. Whatever the reason, I
wanted to take the opportunity to bear my testimony of President Thomas
S. Monson. There is no question in my mind that he is a prophet of
God. I've been given a pretty cool blessing as far as that goes; at
least while I've been on my mission. Every time General Conference comes
around and President Monson stands up for the first time, the Spirit
testifies to me that he is a prophet, and that I need to listen to him. I finished reading Ether today in the Book of Mormon, and I realized
more how important it really is to follow the prophet. In chapter 13 of
Ether, it talks about the prophet Ether, and a promise that he made to
the king, Coriantumr. Coriantumr and his people, the Jaredites, were a
very wicked people at this point, and they were destroying each other
because of that. In verse 20, it says, "the word of the Lord came to Ether, that he should go and prophesy unto Coriantumr that, if he would repent, and all his household, the Lord would give unto him his kingdom and spare the people—" If he did not,"they should be destroyed, and all his household save it were himself... ; and every soul should be destroyed save it were Coriantumr."
Coriantumr didn't repent, and the Lord's promise was fulfilled. The
Jaredites were completely destroyed. If Coriantumr had repented, it
wouldn't have happened. President Monson is just as much a prophet as
was Ether, and if we follow his counsel, we can be saved from the evil
of the world we live in today; we can be saved from destruction and a
lot of sadness. I encourage anyone who doesn't feel like they know we
have a prophet in President Monson to ask God if we do. He'll tell
you. I know that.
Thank you all so much for your emails and your love. I've been blessed
with so many good, righteous, kind, and loving people in my life, and I
hope you all have a great week! Be good! Have fun!
Love ya!
Elder Hafen
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