(Elder Cummings)
The Pioneer Park East area is taking off again! We had a great week for finding, for
teaching, for people coming to church, and the Spirit is with us! Elder Ostler and I are doing great work
together.
Yesterday I finished reading all the way through the Book of
Mormon. That brought me back to the
first time I read it several years ago.
From then I have learned and progressed in my understanding of the
gospel, but everything I have learned and can learn is built upon that
foundation I gained in my youth. I am so
grateful for parents who taught me to love the scriptures early.
I love seeing the Book of Mormon change the lives of the
people we teach. It is so wonderful to
watch as they gain hope and faith as days of diligent reading build upon each
other, preparing the individual for baptism.
One of the people we saw this week, Debbie, is a wonderful example of
this. A single mother with a desire to
know the truth. As she has read the
introductory pages she has felt the Holy Ghost bear testimony to her heart, and
she has listened.
Mai Yang is another wonderful mother who's life has been
impacted by the Book of Mormon. She
speaks fluent Hmong, but can only read Thai.
We were able to get her a copy that she could read and she has learned
from her study the truth of the divine pattern of prophetic dispensations: that
God works through living prophets, through all the generations of man (Amos
3:7).
Several of the other people we teach cannot read, so we read
for them, and as they listen they feel the power of the words. They too come closer to Christ.
I know for myself the truth of the message we missionaries
teach. I know it helps all men and women
draw closer to Christ. I have seen it in
my own life, in the lives of my parents and sibling, and in the lives of the
Hmong people of Fresno California. The
same blessings are available to all of us!
-Elder Jared Cummings
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