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Prophecy about the Future of Missionary Work

In 1974, President Spencer W. Kimball issued an amazing prophecy about the technology driving the gospel message.

Technology will help spread the gospel. We need to enlarge our field of operation.… The Lord will lay in our hand inventions which we can scarcely conceive whereby we will be able to bring the gospel to the peoples of the world…. I have faith that the Lord will open doors when we have done everything in our power. I believe that the Lord is anxious to put into our hands inventions of which we laymen have hardly had a glimpse….We shall use the inventions the Lord has given us to awaken interest and acquaint people of the world with the truths, to ease their prejudices and give them a general knowledge. We shall need to answer specific questions, and perhaps that can be done by two-way radio and TV perfected to a point beyond our present imagination. It is conceivable that such a program greatly perfected could be multiplied ten thousand times in ten thousand tongues and dialects in ten thousand places far and near…. Tens of thousands of young missionaries endowed with the power from on high will follow up the proselyting."

It's amazing to me that I get to be a part of this Prophecy.  I'm glad to be able to do it and Hope that we can get more members involved.

Mission Newsletter Article

O how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, even they are less than the dust of the earth.

   For behold, the dust of the earth moveth hither and thither, to the dividing asunder, at the command of our great and everlasting God. (Helaman 12:7-8)

   In recent times I have thought a lot about things I have heard at church, in the temple, and read during studies.  Why are we less than the dust of the earth?  Why was Adam made from the dust of the earth?  This scripture makes me think that maybe we were made from the dust of the earth so we could maybe see it symbolically.  The dust of the earth is more obedient than we are.  Maybe God truly does want us to be like that dust in a sense.  He wants us to obey without question.  God commands and it moves hither and thither.  Perfect and exact obedience.

   What can we do to be more obedient like the dust of the earth?  I could go through all of the regular, and often over quoted things for different missionary meetings, but I think they have been mentioned so many times that it’s about time we fix those things.  Step up and BECOME. We have heard it hundreds of times.  We have remembered it apparently because they are still brought up.  We understand what it can do for us as missionaries or we wouldn’t continue to bring it up in every meeting we have.  So what’s keeping us from making the next steps?  Ourselves right?  We are the ones who keep ourselves from progressing.  We must apply those things we mention so often.  Then we will become. Elder Richard G. Scott stated in our last general conference, “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”  We will reach the potential God knows we can.  I know we can do better. 

   I love being able to look at the transfer board with President and Elder Heywood.  I love talking about each of you, and talking about your spiritual gifts.  There are many in our mission, and  it’s time to use them all and prove trustworthy.  Love you all.