Wow 2 years are over already.... I can't believe that we are
here alreadyt.... In some ways 2 years has flown by and in others it felt like
it has crawled. But in all reality 2 years is 2 years. Time is time. It passes like
it always does. But it's all about how you perceive it.
Before I go any further let me tell you of a really cool
miracle I found out about this week. Do any of you remember a Daniel Robinson
from my last area? The guy who drank so much freaking beer our first lesson??
Well guess what. He actually is getting baptized this coming Saturday! To be
100% honest I didn't have the greatest expectations for him getting baptized
and neither did my companion, but we both just decided to give him the best
shit we could give and look at him now. He has given up drinking, smoking, and all
his drug problems, that an I'm pretty sure he was dealing drugs. Haha so he
gave it all up. So that's super exciting! Guys people can change. The Atonement
of Jesus Christ is real! So, cool I was able to be a part of his changing his
life. Missions are the coolest thing ever.
This week was good, filled with a bunch of trying to get all
the assignments I have been assigned to do done haha. All while trying to teach
Preach and baptize ya know? ;) I'm organizing a musical number for some
conference tomorrow, I was asked to teach in zone conference, I am helping the
Zone leaders and the sister training leaders out with tech problems regarding
power points and videos, helping with making a video for the Zone this last
week, writing my talk for my homecoming (which by the way is super messed up
that I have to write it on my mission, it's messing with my mind 😂😂😂)
and getting family history started for the new converts, making sure they are
in good hands before I leave. Setting up appointments for Erik down in San
Mateo with his missionaries. It's just been crazy haha! But it's better than it
being slow for the last little bit. It's good though, I love it!
Man, I guess this is the part of the email where I get to
reflect on the past 2 years...... I will first start of by saying, if there is
anyone reading this that is pondering about a mission. Do it. No ifs ands or
buts. Just do it. You will not regret it. It’s hard, it's difficult, but it's
amazing. I guess I will just end with my testimony. I know this is all true.
It's all real, it's all so very very real. The Book of Mormon is real! You can
find out for yourself! Read and pray. Go to the guy with all the answers. He
will tell you what's true and what's not. Joseph Smith is and was a prophet. He
saw what he said he saw! I know that he saw God the father and God the son at
14 years old! That's the same age as my little brother! And I know it's true
because I read and prayed about the book of Mormon, and the experience I had
while in Carthage jail, the feeling I felt was super strong and I know it was
God telling me it’s true. I will add my testimony to the one elder Holland bore
on 2009 of the October General conference.
"Now, I did not sail with the brother of Jared in
crossing an ocean, settling in a new world. I did not hear King Benjamin speak
his angelically delivered sermon. I did not proselyte with Alma and Amulek nor
witness the fiery death of innocent believers. I was not among the Nephite
crowd who touched the wounds of the resurrected Lord, nor did I weep with
Mormon and Moroni over the destruction of an entire civilization. But my
testimony of this record and the peace it brings to the human heart is as
binding and unequivocal as was theirs. Like them, “[I] give [my name] unto the
world, to witness unto the world that which [I] have seen.” And like them, “[I]
lie not, God bearing witness of it.”
I ask
that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today
under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven.
I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I
want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I
declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon,
that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came
forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail
of the latter days."
And I leave you those closing words in the name of Jesus
Christ. Amen.
Peace out Cali, it's been real. I leave those I love that I
have labored for to you. I will be back! Love ya!
The closing of this chapter of my life is sad, but I'm
excited for the next. Who wants to join me?
God is Good,
Cheers!
-Elder Riley Field
Cheers!
-Elder Riley Field
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