Honestly, not a whole lot happened this week that is report worthy. We worked. We got rejected. People weren´t home. Appointments fell through. But it´s all good because we worked. feel good about that. I learned a lot. I found life principles and mission principles in many things that happened that seem like nothing until you think about them. Unfortunately, I can´t write them all here right now. Through the course of my mission, I will be sure to touch on them though. For now, I would like to share one of the things that I learned.
For our District Meeting on Wednesday, Elder Sanchez asked me to talk a little bit about a profound subject. He would teach the lesson on "How to begin teaching" and would cover the first several points that are given in Preach My Gospel. I would then teach the last point which covers very special parts of our message.
#1. You will learn what are and how to make covenants with the Lord. A covenant is a promise with the Lord. He promises blessings and you promise to obey His commandments.
#2. You will learn how covenants bless your life with harmony. Enos says in the first chapter that his soul had peace because of the covenant which was made between him and the Lord.
#3. You will have desires to enter into a covenant with the Lord, and follow the example of Christ and be baptized. Baptism is a covenant in which you have to have the desire to make before the ordinance can be preformed.
Now, together we find that since the Lord is always offering blessings in every one of His commandments, there is a covenant in every action of our lives and not only the eternal promises in baptism and in the Temple. Reading the scriptures is a covenant. Praying is a covenant. Going to church is a covenant. All of these things are promises that we make to receive blessings. First, we must have the Desire. We must have faith that we will receive if we do. Christ did all things that we could follow His example and so He had covenants with Heavenly Father to do and receive. How often are we open to enter into a covenant with Him that always promises and always desires to give - if we would only desire and do.
I hope we can all desire to do all that is required of us so that we can receive those blessings and ultimately, Eternal Life.
Elder Heath
