I hope this email finds you all well!
This last week was incredible, but first I would like to share something with you all! This is one week delayed, but a short time ago, we had the incredible oportunity to see a New first Presidency of the church, as well as our new beloved Profet, Russel M. Nelson, adress us all. It truly was a historic experience, and I can testify to you all that Presidente Nelson is without a doubt our Profet called to lead us in these days. I know this because when he started to speak I had the Holy Ghost testify to me, and it was an incredible experience! President Nelson has already shown us time and time again that he is a man of optimism and he invites us to be the same! I would like to share an important story with you all from his personal life.
When president Nelson was 54 years old he was asked to perform an open heart surgery on a young woman who did not servive the surgery. A short time after the same parents brought him their baby that was not yet two years old, to perform that same surgery because he had the same heart defect...this surgery was also unsuccessful, and they lost their other child. President Nelson told this story and explained how he collapsed on the waiting room floor and cried for hours after that last surgery, promising that he never would perform an open heart surgery again. He cried and cried until his wife asked him if he was done. What she told him was extremely profound. She said that he should finish crying and go to work, because with these two unsucessful surgeries, it was clear he still had things to learn. Taking his wifes advice, President Nelson returned to work, and went on to be one of the leading specialists in open heart surgery, giving him the capacity to save one of his good friends life, another memer of the Quarum of the 12 Apostles, at the time.
The point of the story is this. Nothing replaces optimism and work. When we look at our future in perspective to our pasts, without a vision of improvment, their is seldom an opportunity to feel optimistic. But I want to promise you all, that when we look at our futures with optimism, with a desire to work and to improve, we will be guided by the Lord and have a happy life. If President Nelson, being 93 years old, can stand in the front of the entire world and promise us that we have ´´a bright future ahead´´ we have every reason in the world to be optimistic about our futures.
This week we were blessed with two baptisms, Priscila and Itela, two young women who are incredibly excited about their furtur in following the gospel of Christ. I bare testimony to you all that when we apply a feeling of optimism in our daily lives, on focus on making Christ our center, its is almost imposible for the feelings of inadequacy, fear, and doubt, wepons weilded by the enemy of all happiness, to enter into our hearts and minds. Focus on Christ, and be Optimistic!
Love you all,
Elder Ferrell
1) Pricila and Imaculada
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