The Grandest Door.
The Key, that will open
Endless Doors, worlds without end...
That is what I have gained and learned from our Heavenly Father this week.
And that is what I would like to mix into my account of this week's work.
May what Heavenly Father uses me to share this week, bless your life, as you read with your heart and mind tuned to whatever He might say to your mind and heart as you read and ponder the following:
This week, we have more success than ever!! And tonight we have 2 baptisms!! The best baptisms I have seen in my life yet!
Back at the time period of my most recent Birthday in January of this year, the Hindi program was struggling so much and seeing no success so much that it was about to shut down permanently and pull all plugs and call it a wasted effort.
There were a few small things that happened, which barely kept the program alive.
It has been a joy to watch the phenomenal and unbelievable explosion in progress and advancement the program has made in these short months since that time when all hope was lost and hanging nearly by a thread!
Heavenly Father put me in the program in February, and I have been able to watch the work transform dramatically, and now it has more thrive and drive than any of us can totally work with!!!
There are literally 1000's now who are ready to hear the message of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ! The truth will go forth boldly and nobly until it has sounded in every ear. No unhallowed hand can stop this work, and now it is growing at rates that are beyond human. The Lord is magnifying all of us.
Why?
I will never be the same, because this week, the Why finally went to my heart and is pouring out in all my actions, thought and very being. I am changed and can never go back. The Lord has changed me forever, by opening my eyes to the fact of this one word's power:
Consecration.
Please read here: what to do in order to gain your exaltation This is the center and focus of this week's entire email message... and perhaps the central message and key to all the grandest things ahead of all of us in our glorious potentials and destinies if we will choose it.
It is the fact that, we cannot give the Lord any sacrifice, for we have nothing to give which is not already His.
So we give our heart, and then we are one with Him and He is able to use and exalt and glorify His work through us by His enabling power. Herein is the fullness of joy that I am always so excitedly talking about !!!!
All the ends of the earth are invited unto it, for it is the eternal doctrine of Christ. He set the perfect example of it for us all. He consecrated all and saw none of it as a sacrifice, but as His joy and work with the Father. It gave Him an eternal perspective, and it made His influence in life, eternal unto endless day. So, each of us now may.
The vibe of my life matches and is it tune with all these things, because the Holy Ghost is with me and I follow it--even that the uppermost rule of my being is to follow it.
I testify that Christ is how we reach life's fullness of potential. It is only through Him and His atonement and His mercy, His name, His love, His enabling power, that we can change... we can. We can be as He. We can be every best thing we can imagine, and much much more. Even into the reality of eternity, of which I am able to testify of with absolute certainty.
I know Jesus Christ is the only way. I know He is the only truth, the only light, the only way, and the only hope. He is the fullness of all that is pure and uplifting and edifying and good and eternal.
One of the congregations we are working with here, (the Lautoka 1st Ward) hasn't had a Bishop or bishopric for 8 months, and just yesterday they were finally called! We have a new bishop!
This is such a blessing!
We have been teaching about 20 kids in Koroipita, and they are progressing so well! They are such bright minds. Their testimonies are so strong.
I believe that the only reason God ever gives us anything, is to see what we will do with it.
Think about that, and it might change... everything.
Any and all seeds that you plant, whether sooner or later, will produce something. Either they will grow, or at least something will have grown in you the planter, for having been willing to plant the seed. So go out today and every day, to plant good. Always live foreseeing the outcome of your actions whether it leads to long term positive, or negatively short term darker things.
Walk in the Light.
I invite everyone to consecrate their lives.
This is the door that has led to all of my joys and successes.
I love all of you!
_Eternal Missionary, Elder Howard
Hindi, Fijian, Japanese, English speaking
Fiji Lautoka
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