Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Community Service and Apostolic Callings

This week has been a fantastic one.  That seems to be the trend.  While it was not our biggest week for teaching lessons it was definitely one heavy with service hours.  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday my companion and I spent most of our days helping to translate English to Hmong and Hmong to English at a free dental care clinic. 

The clinic was an experience!  I have been working at this language for three months now and it was a fun stretch of my abilities to talk to people about their medical history and dental procedures.  My companion, Elder Ballard, did help me a lot.  It was really pretty incredible to see this clinic.  There were several hundred dentists on the floor of an enormous convention center doing everything from routine cleanings to pulling wisdom teeth for no charge.  We had people come from over three hundred miles to get this free service.  It was an incredible community event.

The only downside of that was that I missed most of General Conference on Saturday (Mission President approved, no worries).  I may not have raised my hand with the rest of the Church to sustain the three new Apostles, Elders Ronald A. Rasband, Gary E. Stevenson, and Dale G. Renlund, but I do know that they have been called of God to fulfill this sacred calling.  They're charge is just as the original twelve, to "teach all nations, baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19).

God really does speak today.  I find that fact miraculous.

This next week is looking to be a great one.  I love you all.  Have a great day!


-Elder Cummings


Dental Clinic


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