korobun

Mauringkami!

The word of the week should be one that you all can use because there really isn't a word for it in English. The word is "korobun"; It describes the feeling you get when you eat too much  and it gets stuck in your chest and you need water to wash it down. Pretty cool.

This past week and really past transfer has really been about church attendance and what we mean by enduring to the end. Why do we attend church? Why is it a "primary answer"? Well let's look at Jesus Christ's gospel. He preached faith on His name and power to save, repentance, baptism by immersion and the proper authority, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands and lastly enduring to the end.  So we show our faith by choosing to repent, and we know that the "firstfruits of repentace is baptism" and that baptism isnt complete unless it is by water and spirit, or fire and water, so that means we need the Holy Ghost too. Once the first 4 "steps" are done, what do we do? We endure to the end. Jesus Christ said "Look unto me and endure to the end and ye shall live; for unto him that endureth to the end will i give eternal life" (3 Nephi 15:9)

I will take a break from the previous lecture with the story of a recent investigator. Her name is Tekunrerei and she is 75 years old. She started lessons with missionaries 3 months ago and has been frequently attending church and Family Home Evenings. Last Thursday we were teaching her about the Book of Mormon and she told us she believed it was true. So we invited her to be baptized at which point she told us that she was already baptized 30 years ago.....the point is that church attendance and church activities helped this lady remember her testimony. She is very strong in the church right now. 

When we go to church, we show our faith, we receive cleanliness from the Sacrament and renew all of our covenants and thus repent and are "rebaptized" and also are promised the Holy Ghost in our lives. In other words, when we go to church we actually are living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore I encourage all of those who read this to evaluate how important church attendance is on your list of priorities and maybe readjust. Is it more important to watch a football game than stay for the full three hours established by prophets of God? Is it really that bad of a stomach/head ache to ignore the need for spiritual healing? Is it really that difficult to get up at 7:30am on the Lord's day? 

You all are awesome! Keep it up! 

Miss you all,

Elder Farner