Because I have been given much...

I heard this story in church this past week and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I am so blessed and with that comes the responsibility of sharing my blessings with others. This story is SO good...

Testimony of a Missionary

The following event took place in a ward in Salt Lake City in 1974. It occurred during a sacrament meeting and was told to me by a Regional Representative of the Twelve who was in the meeting. A young man, just before leaving on his mission stood in sacrament meeting and bore in essence the following testimony:

Brothers and Sisters, as you know, the past two weeks I've been waiting for my mission call. During the time I was waiting I had a dream. I knew it was not an ordinary dream. I dreamed I was in the pre-existence and awaiting my call to come to earth. I was filled with the same anticipation and excitement that I had before I received my mission call. In my dream I was talking to a friend, and I felt a special closeness to him, even though I've never met him in this life. As we talked a messenger came and gave me a letter. I knew it was my call to go to earth. In great excitement my friend and I opened the letter. I gave it to him and asked him to read it aloud. It said: "You've been called to earth in a special time and to a special land. You will be born to the true church and you will have the priesthood of God in your home. You will born into a land of plenty, in a land of freedom. You will go to earth in the United States of America."
My friend and I rejoiced as we read my call, and while we were rejoicing the messenger returned. This time he had a letter for my friend. We knew it was his call to earth. My friend gave me the letter to read aloud. His letter said: "You've been called to go to the earth in circumstances of poverty and strife. You will not be raised in the true church. Many hardships will attend your life. Your land will be fraught with political and social difficulties - which will hinder the work of the Lord. You will be born in Costa Rica."
We wept, my friend and I, as we read his call. And my friend looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "When we are down on earth, you in your choice land and me in Costa Rica, my friend, please come and find me."
Then this young missionary, with tears in his eyes, said, "Brothers and Sisters, I have received my mission call. I am going to Costa Rica."
About a year after the sacrament meeting, the bishop received a letter from the missionary in Costa Rica. The letter had one sheet of paper in it and on that sheet written in capital letters were four words:



I FOUND MY FRIEND
I am so grateful I really know where I came from, who I am, and what the purpose of life is. So many people wonder about those things, I can't imagine how hard life would be without this knowledge. Its what keeps me going and gives me purpose. And I am so grateful for the trials that have led me to have a firm testimony of these things. Anything is worth that.  I know we can find all the answers to lives questions through:





For these things I am most grateful for. They are better than anything else you could ever have. NOTHING has ever brought me the peace, happiness and guidance that these things bring me everyday. I forget how blessed I am sometimes to know of these truths. I mean the seriousness of my questions are usually like "why does the first crepe never work!" or "Why do I have 10 places to be at the same time or nothing to do" ha ha. How fortunate am I to know the answers to lives most important questions, everything else is just "fluff"
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