Van has been on his mission for 4 months now. He is doing well. Van is now the senior companion, he is still in Mdantsane, but has a new companion, Elder Lunga from Free State South Africa. If you read his email, but missed my stories he has extra money on his personal debit card, no need to worry about him. Besides his typical complaining he had such a great spiritual message in his email this week I just have to share…
Spiritual thought today i just want to talk about faith and why you shouldn’t just believe but to act on faith as well. And i want to share this verse and how Nephi acted on his faith.
1 Nephi 3:7
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”_
Nephi says “I will go and DO” -Not “I’ll think about it” or “I’ll pray for a sign first.” He commits to action before he knows how it’ll work.
Faith isn’t knowing the whole path. It’s taking the next step because you trust the One who gave the command.
*Elder Richard G. Scott* said about this verse: _“We are acting on faith when we pray and then respond to impressions the Lord places in our minds… We are acting on faith when we obey His commandments, even when we do not fully understand the reasons for them.”_
So just remember to always act on your faith and the lord will bless you and I can totally say the lord has already blessed me in so many ways by just me doing what the lord has asked of me to do.
He has dinner at these members home often.
Him and his companion had a couple hard weeks.
His companion was hit in his neck with a football and hurt his
vocal cords pretty badly, he even lost his voice.
Then Van hurt his ankle pretty badly, thankfully the
senior missionaries had a boot he could borrow.
Then his companion got a really bad fungus on his scalp.
Then they both got covid or some really bad flu.
The senior missionaries brought over soup, I'm grateful for them.
Van's new companion Elder Lunga.
