This Saturday we had a
conference with the Area President and Elder Holland with the three Buenos Aires
Missions. There were about 800 missionaries. We sang in a small group of 8 for a
musical number. He said that there is probably no other group on the Earth more
prayed for than the missionaries, and that we are the most visible part of the
church. At one point he was going through D&C 50 and after reading v. 27 he
paused and said "We don't even have a coast of an idea what we're doing." He
said that all of us, even the Apostles, live far below our privileges.
He said that we should never
speak of missionary work as "fulfilling an obligation" or that after we'll go
back to "real life." He said that this is as close to real life as you can get.
He started speaking about obedience and then said, "I don't feel that there are
problems with obedience here. That's not the feeling I get. But it would be
ridiculous if I had to speak about obedience! This is the Gospel of Jesus
Christ! Why would there ever be problems with obedience!" He said that while he
was the head of the committee over Preach My Gospel, the title was chosen very
carefully from D&C 50. Quoting from that section, he made it very clear that
in the words of God it is "MY" gospel. We cannot chose what to teach nor how to
teach it. We teach the doctrine exactly as it is and by the Spirit. There is no
other way. All other ways are "not of God."
The Church is true. The
Gospel is happiness. All things contrary to the pure Doctrine of Christ and all
of it's appendages are in a state contrary to happiness. I remember a sister who
spoke in a devotional at the MTC who worked many years in the Church and with
the MTC said that we should be so incredibly optimistic that people look at us
and say, "Who are you?"
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