and one muffin said " its so hott in here" and the other muffin said " OH MY GOODNESS A TALKING MUFFIN!" hahahah :)
Yesterday at church my teacher felt inspired to share with us part of his patriarchal blessing with my Sunday school,consisting of four youth including me, and it got me thinking how I have gotten my interview for getting my blessing but have not gotten around to getting it. I was to scared and worried that I was not prepared for all the knowledge I was about to receive and I know we can only get it done once and I want to make sure that I am where I need to be when I get my blessing so I can get the most out of it. keeping myself righteous is a 24/7 battle with all the temptation I get, but I know if I keep my mind clean I can do it. so now i'm starting to think about all the things I need to do to get prepared for my blessing and its a little overwhelming.
Also during sunday school their has been a troubling issue on my mind about what happens when a missionary who is unworthy goes on his mission. So he then told me all about his mission and how in his area some unworthy things happened to some of his companions and they would be sent home, and I left with not the real answers that I wanted. after third hour he came and found me and said he felt like he did not answer my question correctly and then I told him about youth conference and how Brother Anderson from the quorum of the seventy had us ask any questions we were inspired to ask and I was too afraid to ask. Then he told me how when he was going over his lesson plan something didn't feel right and decided to this instead and now he knows why. I needed to have my question answered because this has been bothering me for months now. that how someone can lie and go on a mission and still do the things the lord wants him to do. he told me that I should pray and the lord will be able to answer my question.
when I get my answer i will be sure to let you all know! but who knows when that will be because the lord works in mysterious ways and its his timetable not mine!
It was so amazing to know that my sunday school teacher felt through the spirit that he needed to have a day where we all talked about what was on our minds. the power of the priesthood is a very powerful thing and I have a strong testimony that it is a true thing.
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About the Unworthily serving a mission thing.. My Boyfriend is serving a mission right now. He has been out in the field for a little over a week now and just had an experience with missionaries doing to wrong thing. They had a "P-day eve" and my missionary said they all listened to music that they shouldn't have had on the mission to begin with. He told me that it sucked him dry spiritually and with the temptations he suffers as an Elder already, they didn't help much. Needless to say he will not be participating in "P-day Eve" anymore. The same goes for your Patriarchal Blessing. The Lord has a set plan for all of us and if we follow the path that he has set for us, our blessings will always be the same. it's when we veer from the path that we are no longer promised those sacred things. As long as you are trying to uphold your standards and live righteously the lord will ensure those promises. A missionary who serves unworthily will not receive the same wonderful blessings a worthy and honorable missionary would. It is not our place to judge the worthiness of a soul. The lord will judge when the time comes. Matthew 7:1-5; Proverbs 11:3 Don't get discouraged, the Lord has a plan. Have faith and he will take care of the rest.
ReplyDeleteBrent has so much insight on this one. I do know that all the blessings of someone who was touched by a missionary are true. If the missionary was not worthy, the person baptized, blessed, ect. is still entitled to those blessings. The missionary was sent by the church so the blessings still stand. I know that I had similar questions as a youth and luckily I married a return missionary who knew how to tell me about the church's insides. I know that you are on the right path since you are asking more deep questions. Keep it up Bree! I love you
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