He Lives, don't you know? (Week #54)

What a true blessing it is for us to be living in a day where we can be led by and governed by a true profet called of God. What a special experience it was to see, hear, and witness God work through his beloved servant Presidente Nelson this last weekent. I bear solemn testimony that the words, revelations and sentiments transmitted from the speakers in this last General Conference are the words of god himself, and that those who delivered them are true diciples called of him!

We were all excited to show our support for our New Profet on Saturday, as well as to see our two new Apostles on Sunday, one of which, Elder Suares, is from Brasil!

But it is at this moment I would like to ask you all to ponder something in your minds going forward these next few weeks. As missionaries we often teach a specific lesson on the first visit with an investigator. This message is called the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It truly is a message of hope and joy to our world today to know that through a profet called of God, God restored the order of his church here on the earth. But I would like to ask all of you, is the restoration complete? Is the restoration only the revelations that Joseph Smith and the other modern profets that imidietly followed received? NO!

My friends we live in an exciting time in which we are PARTICIPATING in the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christ taught us in Acts 1:7 ´´It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.´´ 

I have already heard a few voice their concerns and confusion about glorious changes made in the orginization of the church this last weekend to better progress the RESTORATION of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To any concern or confusion that may come it is important to know that this is the adversary trying to tempt us and ubstruct the work of the Lord being finished. We cannot forget, especially this the weekend that we celebrate the ressurection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Crist, that HE LIVES. He is at the helm and he does not sleep on the Job! If you think that the restoration of his church and his gospel is complete, I invite you to read the New testament and see the laws and covenants that were made or the orginizations that were created, and see how little by little we are seeing the church of God being adjusted to truly be restored to its original form, clean and pure. The most exciting part is that we are a direct influence on how quickly or how slowly this restoration is accomplished! God will continue to pregress is work for he is a God of Progression. When his children here on earth show that they are pregressing with Him He will give us more parts of the puzzle to motivate us to continue on this road of Progression.

The more dedicated we are to obeying our sacred covenants, the faster this restoration will be accomplished. 

The more dedicated we are in helping our bretheren know about the joy and love that comes through following and obeying the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the faster that Gospel will be Restored.

We are our own agents. As we can see through every example in our history, when we, the people of Zion turn to be a righteous people, God will entrust us with knowlede of his works. But if we cannot understand things terrestres how can we be expected to understand things Celestial? (Words of Christ John 3) 

I would like to extend a loving invitation to all to embrace with excitiment every new revelation and new step of the Restoration of His Gospel which God chooses to reveal through his servants in these later days, and would like to encourage all to always search to be the best disiple of Christ you can be, through following all his commandments. Let us, as a people, hasten the work of our Master. Let us do our part to have confidence in a ´´Better World´´ (Ether 12:4)

I miss you all, have an excellent week!

With all my love,

Elder Ferrell