This week was a good one! My companion and I being sister leaders
in Tacna traveled to Arequipa for a day for a leadership conference and it was
so inspiring and really have me the motivation to work hard these last couple
weeks of my mission! We talked a lot about how we can work better with the
members to receive more references. For all you members of the church out there
reading this right now, help the missionaries out!! Prepare people for them to
teach! They can't do their work alone! It is absolutely necessary to have the
help and support from the members. We have had support from the members here in
our area and honestly it's made the biggest difference! We have seen so many
miracles thanks to the members that have helped us out!
Alright so today lets talk about prophets. Lets start from the beginning.
Adam. He was the first man to come to earth. He lived with Eve in paradise in a
place called the garden of Eden. They were given instruction to not eat the
fruit from the tree of knowledge or good and evil, but we know how the story
goes. They ate the fruit. So as a consequence they were cast out of paradise,
out of the garden of Eden. They had also been commanded to multiply and
replenish the earth, so thats what they did. They started their family. They had
many kids, but among them were two named Cain and Abel. Cain rebelled against
the teachings of his father and chose to follow Satan, so much that Cain was
tempted to kill his brother Abel. And he did exactly that. The people started to
give into Satans temptations as well. They started to reject the prophet, Adam,
and his teachings. So what does God do when the people reject His prophet? He
takes the prophet away form the earth because the people are not ready to follow
his guidance.
So the world was in sad state of apostasy, when there is no prophet to
guide the people. But God loves his children and he wants them to prosper and
understand how to return to His presence, so He called another prophet.
His name was Noah and Noah was instructed to build an ark and testify to
the people that a flood would come. The people were wicked, so they did not
follow the guidance of the prophet. And when the flood came, these people that
didnt listen to the prophet were killed.
There was also the prophet Abraham. He was instructed by God to sacrifice
his son, Isaac. Abraham traveled for days to a mountain and even built an altar
to do it. Right when he was about to sacrifice Isaac, an angel came to him and
told him not to. But he was blessed because he obeyed Gods orders. There were
two cities called Sodom and Gomorrah where the people were known to be extremely
disobedient and wicked. God told Abraham that he was going to destroy them.
Abraham wanted to find righteous people to live there, but that wasnt enough and
the two cities were burned.
Then there was Moses. He led the Israelites out of Egypt. He even opened
the Red Sea by the power of God so that the people could pass and the people
were happy, but started to complain and rebel. Moses went to speak to God in
private and was given the 10 commandments. But when Moses returned to his
people, they were worshipping a golden calf with sacrifices and burnt
offerings.
In the old testament we see a pattern of this. God calls a prophet, the
people obey and are happy. The people rebel and turn wicked, and God takes away
the prophet because the people are not worthy nor ready to receive His
direction.
God then sent His son, Jesus Christ to the earth. He sent His son to die to
save us from our sins, but also to establish a church. And thats what he did!
Jesus established his church. Jesus was also a prophet because he spoke with God
to receive revelation to guide his people. He also had the power of God, called
the priesthood. All the prophets have this power. Moses used this power to open
the Red Sea and Jesus used it to cure the sick and work miracles among his
people. He also gave this power to his 12 apostles.
But what happened with Jesus
Christ? The people crucified him. They
rejected him. And they rejected his 12 apostles. After the death of Jesus Christ
and his 12 apostles, the church that he established was taken away from the
earth. And the world fell into another apostacy. There was no more prophet to
guide the people, there was no communication from God, and there was no
authority or power from God on the earth.
So what do you think happened next? Wouldn't it makes sense that God calls
another prophet to reveal more of His will to his children? God loves us, He
wants us to return to His presence, and we cannot do that unless we have
guidance from a prophet. We NEED modern revelation. The world is not as it was
back in the times of Adam and Moses. So don't you think it would be fair and
make sense that God called another prophet?
It is my testimony that God called another prophet. He called another
prophet to restore the same church that Christ established when he was here on
the earth. The exact same church.. with a prophet, priesthood authority, modern
revelation and 12 apostles.
Watch the video below to find out more about this prophet and how he
restored Christ's church.
Have a fantastic week everyone (:
xo
Hermana Celardo
p.s. WATCH THE VIDEO!!!!
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