I am healed! I am no
longer on crutches, limping from place to place like a dog on three
legs! I am free! It feels good. There is still a tiny little scab on
the top of the foot, which should disappear this week. I think that it
is finally over... unless there still rests a tiny piece of wood in the
foot, only time can tell.
This week was excellent. It was rainy in Nice, but
being an Oregon boy who is used to that kind of weather 9 months out of
the year, I did my best not to complain. One of the biggest miracles of
this last week was that Kisky finally came to church! We have been
teaching him twice a week for about a month consecutively, and this I
think will be a turning point for him. He was starting to plateau in
his progression and I think that it was just the right time that he
come. He even brought a friend, another brother from the Congo, who
seemed to really enjoy himself, we'll be seeing if we can't start to
teach him as well. :)
The thing about Kisky is that he needs a testimony
from the Holy Ghost of the divinity of the Book of Mormon. Once he
recieves this conviction, everything else will fall into place. He is
very intelligent, very critical and very open. But what he needs is to
really tell himself that at this point, he "lacks wisdom" and that he
must "ask of God". This humility will lead to an answer. The heavens
closed and stopped revealing truths to mankind at the start of the Great
Apostasy because men thought they had all they answers, everything that
God would ever give them, and thus they stopped asking for more.
Joseph Smith was visited by God and Jesus Christ once he turned to them
asking a simple, but very important question. It is the same principle
with Kisky, he needs to come before God, humbly, without a preconceived
answer already in mind and ask God with sincerity, real intention and
faith. Then wait and see what happens. We hope he will do so, and we
are continuing to encourage him.
Remember Mina? She is great and not forgetten. She
just finalized her divorce last week and is currently going through
some emotional and physical trials that have hindered her from being
able to meet with us in the recent past. But she has stayed diligent in
her reading of the Book of Mormon and we hope to meet with her soon.
Remember Stella? The mysterious German woman? We
finally got back in contact with us. She did not forget us, she moved
and now lives just a little distance outside of Nice. She hopes to meet
with us again, before she returns to Germany and the end of the month.
She also has continued faithful in her prayers and reading of the Book
of Mormon.
Remember Richard? I think it was only last week
that I told you about him. He was the catalyst for a now strong
latter-day saint in meeting the church and missionaries. We will be
meeting with him this evening and I will keep you updated on how he
progresses. Speaking of which, Edwyn, the man who Richard introduced to
the missionaries a few years ago, is currently hospitalized. This last
week, I had the opportunity to give him a priesthood blessing, and his
room companion, who observed this whole process silently, began asking
us questions afterwards. Edwyn had told him a bit about the church and
eventually the man told us that once he got out of the hospital, he
would be interested in coming to church with him and seeing how that
goes. It was a testimony to me that we can do missionary work in any
circumstance that life puts us in. A witness of God in all times and in
all places. ;)
All in all, the church is true! Jesus Christ leads
this church through divine revelation, the rock which Christ promised to
Peter he would found it upon. There are still many great and important
things pertaining to the kingdom of God that are yet to be revealed!
Isn't that exciting! A church in which asking questions is encouraged!
Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you. Let
us all ask for missionary opportunities this week and then walk into the
door that will be opened up to us!
Avec amour,
ELDER KUNZLER
No comments:
Post a Comment