Why have limits?

Improvement in Every Moment of Life.

You know that God is your Father.  He loves you.  He wants you to be happy. Put ALL your trust in Him, and He'll bring you to a realization of ALL your divine potential and character as His Child.  This Life is the Time. 

​(Picture I took on Saturday, of armwrestling giants in the clouds of Fiji)

Oh, how much we gain by committing to live the life our Heavenly Father highest believes and intends for us!  He knows we're capable.  He'll empower and enable us as we give ourselves to His will--and making there be no difference between our will and His, His work and ours.


This is the great test of life: Will we choose to have limits, or will we break all of them through the freedom that comes through obedience and yielding ourselves wholly up unto our Father's BETTER AND AWESOMEST version and plan for us?  His way=joy that never dies, exaltation that has no limit, Christ-like life, now and in eternity with our Eternal Families, our Heavenly Father and all those we love.
Our way=emptiness and hunger that never is satisfied.  Discouragement and endless searching for meaning and deep lasting happiness.  Never realize our full potential, never attain it, no eternal progress.

The great test of Life is an invitation.  An invitation to come and be completely one with Jesus Christ and our personal, loving, Eternal Father.  Will we lose our life by keeping and withholding it (giving ourselves grievous limits,) or withholding nothing, and giving ourselves completely over to His better plan for our lives--a Plan that makes us Even As He Is.  

The choice is ours. 

This week has been too good!!

​I spent the whole week in other areas, with other people besides my own companion.  The Zone Leaders and Assistants to the mission President, came and did exchanges with my companion and I.  They are the highest missionary leaders in the mission.  They came and we taught each other mindblowing things!  I have grown perhaps more than I ever have at any other point in my life, these past weeks on my mission.  

We're seeing more success than we can handle.  At the same time, we're experiencing so much joyful opposition and what some would silly call "dissapointments."  Many fall-through appointments, and people that choose other paths than that of following Jesus Christ and being Baptized.   We just hand it over to the Lord and choose joy, and press on super joyfully work, work, working non-stop!  I love choosing joy!!!There's no end to the things I could tell you Heavenly Father taught me this week!!  No end!!  Wow!!!!! 
I am prepared to open my mouth to literally anyone and everyone Heavenly Father desires me to bless and lift and love.  

I have learned that the most selfish gift is the gift of service.  For when we serve others, we ALWAYS get more than those we serve get.  Whenever we bless another, it blesses us more than it does them.  Whenever we teach, we learn more than our learners.  Whenever we are grateful, we receive EVEN more.  Whenever we shine light, it's brightest close to the source... us, the shiners!!! What greater principle!?  Go be selfish by being selfless!!!! 

Transfers are happening this week, which means I will either be leading this area, or going to a new area.  Heavenly Father has prepared me to do His work, one with Him, to change the eternities of His children here in Fiji.  Their exaltation and eternal life and fullness of joy in this life and the next, is my goal.  To bring them the ultimate, lasting, and truth and meaning and happiness, through this, the true message of the Restored fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our day.

The Lord Himself personally leads and directs His church, through modern-day living Prophets.

 Why Do We Need Prophets?  

Here, in order to keep the Sabbath by going to church, you "have to" break the Sabbath by paying the bus driver to work on the Sabbath.

I was told by Heavenly Father, to exercise faith that, if I asked for Him to part my little Red Sea, He would provide a way for me to keep the Sabbath Day holy by not having to pay the bus driver.

Each time I did this, Heavenly Father miraculously answered me!

It was always an impossible situation where I thought there was no way around having to pay for our ride.  But, Heavenly Father opened the way every time!

Pray for help to keep His commandments, and He'll enable you. 

for this picture, this is a bird that was flying around in our house early in the morning when we woke up the other day.  We live in a great little shed that we share with every kind of Fijian creature...

smashing a rock on my face, my eye came out (ha ha ha just kidding :)

fijian kids

We lost our key to our house and had to go without our house being locked up. The door had to be left open, and we had to go teach lessons.  We knew we were about God's personal and eternal work, so we just asked that His angels and He, watch and protect our house.  We went out and weren't back till late.. much much later in the night.  On our way home, I was wondering if we really were in His hands and if our house would be alright, and if He was with us in this work.  He then told me to look to my left, and I saw this and was blown away with amazement and He spoke great things to my heart and mind. 

When we got home, our home was perfectly untouched and no one had broken in.  We fell down and praised Him and thanked Him with full hearts, and now, full unshakable testimonies

I am a personal witness that He lives and this is literally and fully truly, His work.  It is true.  This gospel is from no man, He Himself restored it and leads it and us this day.

In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

It's a man, holding the moon in the palm of His hand

Killing our Goals

This is Naca!  He's 17, and is working toward baptism and serving a 2 year mission as well!

 This week, Heavenly Father gave us 6 new beloved children of His who are golden and fully prepared!  They all want to be Baptized and 2 of THEM aalllsssooo want to serve 2 year missions to share this glorious restored and beautiful truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The world is ready to rise up and follow the Savior! 

We just have to love them, ask for Heavenly Father's help, receive the Savior's enabling power, and simply with unrestrained joy and happiness, invite them, one at a time. 

They know this church is true and they already feel the incredible blessings and truth the Father has blessed their souls to feel.

This area is literally exploding with miracles!

We are hitting and overachieving ALL of our goals!

In fact, we're KILLING all of the goals Heavenly Father has told us to make!

Why I'm 8000 miles from home

​We're teaching some cannibals, and they had me for dinner the other night! 

This week has been LITERALLY nothing but miracles! 

 The language fully clicked for the first time this week! I've had dreams in Fijian!  I talk to everyone in Fijian and I'm forgetting how to speak English!  I'm getting darker and darker, and this food beats all American food except Susan Howard's!-- (my dear angel divine glorious beautiful Mother!) 

First time the language Fully Clicked:

We got on the bus on Monday after doing needed shopping and sharing the gospel and lifting and blessing and brightening people's lives, and I got on and initially went to a specific seat in the back half of the bus.  But then Heavenly Father told me that I needed to sit up by a lady near the front of this crowded bus.  It was amazing, because people were pouring in, but didn't sit next to her.  It was miraculous how her seat was preserved for me.  I acted on the prompting.  We talked for a good 30 minutes in just Fijian, about everything about me and everything about her.  We had talked for this long, and the bus hadn't even started going yet.  So, the Lord told me to share the gospel with her to bless her life.  We talked about her family, and the deep joy and happiness our Heavenly Father desires we all receive through His plan.  I went through the entire Restoration, and Book of Mormon and bore my testimony and we had amazing, deep conversations about her family and her feelings and life!  It was amazing!  The Lord blessed me to completely speak fluent Fijian!  It rolled out without effort!  She understood everything I said! I didn't have to translate in my head or anything--it truly rolled out with ease!  I shared with her, talking non-stop for about an entire long hour of just sharing the gospel and being super happy and enjoying each other!

I'm fluent!

Thanks to Heavenly Father--not myself.  He is a great giver of good gifts to all His children who will ask and then work to be fully one with Him so He can be unrestrained in pouring out enabling help and power.  Do His work, and you have His joy and power and are one with Him. 

We can all do this!

In our lives, there are things we can do to be one with Him in His work.  When we lay down our pride and our will, we pick up His power and His ridiculous happiness, purpose and meaning in life!

I have experienced it first hand every single day here! 

​Cucumber invites you!  Join Heavenly Father in His work.  Come unto Christ!  There is no greater happiness than when your all is given over to Him, fully and unrestrained and unreservedly!

It's to the point now where with effort and exertion, I look hard for any place or degree where I don't plainly, veillessly, undeniably & obviously see Heavenly Father's hand in my life.  There's not a single smallest detain or thing where I can't plainly see His hand, undeniably!  My whole soul and Being marvels and sings!

​Not that the windows of my Father's full and bounteous blessings just barely opened; but that my eyes just barely did.  By practice and prayers asking and petitioning Him for such, it's growing in greater degree than ever, every day! EVERY NEW DAY!

I used to try hard each day to see His hand.  Now by practice and His enabling gift and blessing--there's nowhere I DON'T see it plain as day and clear as all the passages of beautiful eternity!

Every new day, I'm not satisfied with all the improvement and good and progress I made yesterday and the depth of my oneness with Christ and the Father, through my Savior's help and enabling power.

I wake up, smile super ridiculously big and look my soul square in the eye, and look myself in the mirror and say,

"Old me, welcome to the new me.  This is the new me; the Lord will lead me to higher ground than I've ever been on."

And then He does!

There hasn't been a single day here, that wasn't better than the last!  

Each day LITERALLY is better than the last!

That is how the Gospel blesses my life; it allows me to be on a never ending, upward climb of joy, regardless of my circumstances, trials and difficulties... in fact!: It's BECAUSE of and through those joyful difficulties and trials and circumstances!

This is life at its fullest!  And fuller every day!

So many sorrows and challenges and Goliath's and trials every day! I choose to lay all of them upon the Atonement's enabling power, and choose joy and then BAM!! ALL BAD THINGS TRANSFORM FOR MY JOY AND GOOD. 

Gratitude makes literally everything minister to adding and enhancing my joys and happiness even when horrible things happen to me!
Thanks to Christ, there's nothing bad in my life--for all things are transformed for my good and joy and oneness with Him.

That's why I'm 8000miles away from home for two years doing absolutely nothing but sharing THIS message!

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A loving Heavenly Father (Part 2: Prayer)

So, Life.  What's it all about?  Why is it?  And how can we make the most of it?

How do we individually and personally reach Life @ it's Fullest?

​We approach our loving Heavenly Father, and give our lives to Him.  

And mean it.  Trust His love.  Feed all the light and good and faith and joy and divinity and righteousness and happiness inside of you!  Feed it and starve ALL the bad.

What does He do then?

He Himself can then teach us.

How?

This gospel of Jesus Christ.

The beauty and perfection of the gospel God our loving Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, restored in our day and age--personally and permanently, to bless the lives of all the children of God.

I would like to suggest that life at its fullest is accessed very largely through prayer.

​This is a picture my companion took without me knowing.  We had had a long day, and this restaurant didn't have anything but expensive cola drinks and juices.  We wanted water, but they didn't have any.  We walked over to our table and sat down.  Heavenly Father heard our prayers and desires.  A waitress walked over and surprised us by giving us a jug full of water, and two cups!

It was a small thing, but it impacted us hugely and we felt our Heavenly Father's love and kindness. 

I stopped what I was doing and immediately thanked Him.

He hears us.

He always hears us.

The Bible Dictionary says this about Prayer:

As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are His children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part (Matt. 7:7–11). Many of the so-called difficulties about prayer arise from forgetting this relationship. Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings.

There are many passages in the New Testament that teach the duty of prayer (Matt. 7:7; 26:41; Luke 18:1; 21:36; Eph. 6:18; Philip. 4:6; Col. 4:2; 1 Thes.5:17, 25; 1 Tim. 2:1, 8). Christians are taught to pray in Christ’s name (John14:13–14; 15:7, 16; 16:23–24). We pray in Christ’s name when our mind is the mind of Christ, and our wishes the wishes of Christ—when His words abide in us (John 15:7). We then ask for things it is possible for God to grant. Many prayers remain unanswered because they are not in Christ’s name at all; they in no way represent His mind but spring out of the selfishness of man’s heart.

Book of Mormon references on prayer include 1 Ne. 18:3; Alma 34:17–28;Ether 2:14.