Mission Update: April 24, 2006
Transfers are coming up. We’ll get a phone call tomorrow evening telling us if we should pack or bags, or if we are staying. My companion and I think that we are both staying.
I gave a somewhat untraditional talk (sermon) in church yesterday. The Bishop had called the night before and asked that I give a brief talk about the restoration. I had a talk, which I had given in Dodge City, that I thought I would give. However, being inspired by my recent ponderings and studies, I wrote, very early in the morning, a talk which presented my thoughts on the restoration as being a personal quest to understand the singular truth of God, or that is God, and how we need not to build walls around what we have comfortably considered to be truth, but should also be striving for a better understanding, and must back away from the cultures that form our understandings to do so, and how, in my opinion, the Kingdom of God, even Zion, cannot be established without this principle. The talk was well recepted, even if, as one brother commented, it was a tad “pedantic” (I’ll leave it up to you to look up that one…I had to.)
I was sent a quote that I absolutely love, as it describes well the feelings which I have had for a while. I thought I would share it with you. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Buddha. Amen to that.
I wish everyone well and hope that the providence of God will sustain you in the days ahead. Until next week…
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