Date
April 2, 2018
Area
Ironwood Zone
Companion
Elder Justin Mckee
Easter Pageant!, General Conference! And Miracles!
Hello Brothers and Sisters!
I agree that those topics are all Miracles on the subject line! I am so thankful for General Conference and all of the talks that were given, I was able to make notes out of every one of them and recieve so much revelation that I have cried of Joy more in this General Conference than any of the last three years of watching them! I was so happy when President Nelson said there was going to be a TEMPLE IN LAYTON! I was literally holding everything back in the Chapel to stay reverent!! 🙃 I started to cry again! I have a spiritual connection with this! Before I left on my mission I have really hoped they were going to make a Temple in Layton but because of how many Temples are in Utah, I really thought it wasn't going to happen! But Dreams come true!!!
I really felt touched by President Russell M Nelson's talk during the Sunday Morning Session about personal revelation and how our Loving Heavenly Father WANTS TO HEAR FROM US. I feel like some of those questions I wanted to know before Conference was answered by that talk! God wants to hear from us and wants to answer back in his own way! Sometime we don't need a General Conference to answer all our questions because we have everyday to ask and if we are willing to be patient on the Lord's timetable, then when the time is right he will reveal the answer in the mom you need, that's why President Henry B. Eyrings talk on the Holy Ghost is so important because it is the Great Revelator of the Godhead! He is the ultimate testator to our spirits if we listen for its promptings and filter out the static from the worldly voices that distract us from that small still voice of the spirit. I could go on and on about personal revelation because it's one of my favorite Study topics to learn about. To know God still speaks to us through personal revelation is amazing and I have a testimony of time and time again through my life. If we didn't have personal revelation, I wouldn't be in this church. It was because the Holy Ghost brought to my mind a simple image of the Book of Mormon when I sincerely wanted to know truth to help me in my LIFE through prayer, that I did ask of God to help me be the Man of God he wanted me to be. And because of a friend in High School who gave me the Book of Mormon a few month before this revelation I was able to recieve the answer to my prayers that changed my life to follow Christ and to join his true church that he established on this earth and is now restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith.
After the Sunday Sessions of General Conference, Elder Mckee and I had an appointment with our two Investgators, Savannah and Daniel, who are on date for Baptism for April 28th, which we committed them to do earlier this week. When we were there, there were a few friends of the kids there and one of them named Brighton, straight up told us he wasn't Mormon haha but it was so awesome how much he knew about the church as we spoke about the Plan of Salvation. He answered a lot of the questions we gave. After the lesson, he had some questions about what time our church starts and what he needed to do to be baptized! We told him that he needed to talk to his parents about being baptized and also about joining him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon to know if it is true. He said he will be at our next appointment with Savannah and Daniel on Tuesday! He is only 11 years old!
On Wednesday, we were able to take our other Investgators, Cindy and Ron, who we had Dinner with on Monday, to the Mesa Temple Easter Pageant! It was so powerful! We all felt the spirit! What a blessing it was especially since this is the last time they will do it for the next two years because the Mesa Temple will be renovatied! Cindy and Ron are both reading the Book of Mormon and are praying about it, Cindy already has read the whole Book of Mormon and knows it's true but Ron is still working on it! We have another appointment with them in Friday! We are so excited for them! We are planning on putting them in date for Baptism for April 21st!
So many Miracles and changes are happening in the Church and I know it is the Lord moving His will forward to prepare for his coming! We are to be ready and I believe all of the changes that happen in the church by the Prophet are helping with this!
I sustain President Russell M. Nelson and his Counselors and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as Prophets, Seers, and Revelators for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! I know they are guiding us closer and closer to Jesus Christ!
I know that these things I have said are true and hope the best from all of you this week! I hope you will continue to follow the Prompting of the Prophet to study the talks given in General Conference continuously throughout the next 6 months and repeatly!
I love you all and I know our Father in Heaven and his Begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ loves all of you as well, no matter your faults or mistakes may be they have given us a second chance to start over through sincere Repentance. You are worth much in the sight of God! I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Elder Schmidt
Pictures
1-3. Mesa Easter Pageant!
4. Doing service for an awesome guy named Ray who likes Flowers!
5. Between General Conference session Lunch! $1 Brats!
6. Funny Meme to make you laugh! Have an awesome week!