Why hello everyone!
What an incredible week I had over here. As you know, we took a train
Monday
night and stayed in Belgium for the night and went to the chapel in the
morning to prepare for...Elder Christofferson! You could probably see
from the pictures that there were 3 zones of us in Brussels. I do not
know how lucky I got to be there. We sang for him as he walked in and he
told us he wanted to weep with joy. It was a pretty special moment. We
all got to shake is hand and talk with him for a moment. When he walked
in the spirit was so strong and I felt of his authority and power.
Elder Christofferson began by telling us to ask him questions.
It was a pretty cool setting. Being 10 feet away from an Apostle of the
Lord. We asked him questions and with each one, he gave us personal
sacred counsel that was meant for us. One of the questions asked was how
can we know that we're accepted of the Lord? He began to teach of
simple truths, then he gave us an Apostolic blessing. It was pretty
incredible. He blessed us that in the coming weeks, we would have a
specific moment where we would feel of God's acceptance. He counseled us
to give gratitude for the experience then continue to press forward and
work. It was a sacred moment and he said it with a lot of emtoion. At
the time I didn't think about it, but afterwards, Soeur Richards and I
wondered if he was emotional because he knew the feelings we would
experience because he's felt them as an accepted servant of the Lord. It
was pretty powerful and a moment I will never forget.
After all the questions were asked, he closed by thanking us
for our work. He told us that the Apostles of the church are charged
with a great responsibility to declare the gospel to the world. That the
task is too big for them, so they have general authorities. The task
was still to big, so they called us! And we said yes and we're almost
90,000 strong. What a miracle! Then, he bore solem witness of the Savior
and His literal physical being and glory. He bore witness that Jesus
Christ physically heads this church, and that He lives! And that we
heard it come from His lips. It was a powerful moment in my mission and
life! And I'll never forget it. I was able to play the piano for the
meeting and as he left I was asked to play. We all stood as he walked
out and I continued to play the piano. The spirit was so thick you could
touch it! The missionaries all remained standing and no one could move.
They just listened and stayed. No one wanted to move a muscle. It was
such a cool feeling. After awhile they started singing and we just sang
hymns for a long time.
So the next few days we continued to live on the high of Elder
Christofferson just learning something new every time we talked about
it.
Friday
we were just getting into our studies when I had a talk come to my
mind! It was actually the talk that Ammon had suggested to me a few
weeks ago about the Atonement by Cleon Skousen. (shout out Ammo thanks
for being inspired) I looked in my folder and voilà! it was there
sitting in the back. I began to read and my mind was opened up to things
that I have never known before or understood. I learned about
intelligences and God's relationship to us. I learned that everything is
a miracle! I learned that honor is what makes God God, and He lives
according to the Celestial Law. He says, " The Father says, 'Once I had
put you down into the second estate, I lost complete control over the
possibility of bringing you back Myself.' God the Father cannot save us.
These are doctrines of the church that we seldom put in these
dimensions. But that is the Easter story. This is really the Easter
story." If there hadn't been another way we would've been lost. That's
where the Savior steps in. For the first time in my life, I got a
glimpse into who Heavenly Father truly is. For a moment, I saw that He's
not just a King stitting upon a throne. He is working endlessly
striving to fight for us! I used to think that because He was perfect He
didn't really have emotions. But that's not true. I understood that He
is a personality and He does live by a celestial law and that's what
makes Him even more sublime. because if He faltered or slipped even a
little, He would cease to be God. I saw Him as a real being with with
feelings and a new perspective. I learned more of the Savior and my
appreciation for His Atonement soared to levels higher than before.
Heavenly Father is setting us up to succeed and He's tirelessly there at
our side. He feels things. I learned sacred small truths about our
Heavenly Father that I'd never known before.
As we shared our studies in comp study, we had an incredible
experience! The spirit was strong and our little apartment became a
temple again. We went about our day, and all of a sudden, we realized
that Heavenly Father trusted us enough to give us a glimpse of who He
really is. He
accepted us and gave us a life changing experience
to show us that He accepted our hearts and loved us. Elder
Christofferson's apostolic blessing! We remembered what Elder
Christofferson told us about taking a moment to thank Him then moving on
and working. So we did! We were doing weekly planning and we were
planning for our ami Jacqueline. She is our cute little old lady who has
been an ami for 9 years! She is the one that tells us all about WWII
here. Love her to death. We were at a road block, because she's told us
she knows the gospel is true the bom everything! but she just doens't
want to get baptized because of all of her children raised catholic. We
knelt down and prayed to know what we could do to "cast our nets on the
other side". As we prayed, we had a strong impression that we needed to
baptize her. We received direct details. We looked at each other and
said, "Let's do it now" So we ran and put on our shoes and literally
kinda ran to her house. haha we looked crazy. She was surprised to see
us but very happy! She let us in and we told her we had something really
important to tell her. We explained the experience we'd had and told
her that God wanted her to be baptized. On
April 12th.
The Spirit spoke through us and He was bold! we told her that her
family was waiting for her on the other side. It was up to her. She was
changed and saw the boldness and seriousness in our words. We committed
her and asked if we could come everyday to read with her to prepare her.
She accepted! We've gone back every day since and read with her, and
she's progressing like I've never seen before. SHE WILL GET BAPTIZED.
And she could use your prayers for this miracle!
In the talk I read he says, "I don't know what it does for
you, but it has made me to love my Heavenly Father like I've never loved
Him before. And I've learned to love the Savior Jesus Christ like I've
never loved Him before. Now I know what those two wonderful people did
for me and you and our children and all the people of this world, the
planet on when we live-and all the beautiful things that He's blessed us
with. It would have all been destroyed and lost if those two people
hadn't done what they did. I love them for that."
I add my testimony with His, that I love them. I love them
with all of my heart. After I learned all the new things about our
Heavenly Father, my life has honestly not been the same; I pray
differently, I think differently, and everything is different. I know
He's there, working alongside us. He hears our prayers! And He loves us
like I've never known before. That is why I'm here! Because Christ can't
save someone that doesn't believe in Him. I'm here to help people
believe.
I love you all so much. And I'm praying for you and working
for you. I hope you have an incredible week. thank you so much for your
love and support. I love you all!
Love,
Soeur Cameron 100 % No regrets I've promised to Give MORE
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