Seeking the Light of the Gospel

It's interesting that my studies today have been based on the revelation. I don't know why it comes back to that same subject but when I got on lds.org it came up again.

The question, "is it just me or is it the Spirit?" I love the Lord. I love His apostles. Elder Bednar gave this talk 3 years ago. I remember it well. I had been seeking to  better understand the Spirit all semester. My religion professor gave us a challenge to pick a subject and seek inspiration daily about this topic in our scripture study. This was my chosen topic: how can I know the Spirit is talking to me?

Everyday I would get little piece of information about how the Spirit worked with me then when conference came around the same principle applied, seek knowledge that relates to your topic. That very conference Elder Bednar devoted an entire talk to this principle entitled, "The Spirit of Revelation." It answered every question I had and more. He talked about the different levels of light and while I don't have time to explain it in detail I highly recommend you read it!! (: Each of you.

Really, who hasn't had this question at one time or another? Am I just making it up or is this the Spirit prompting me?  

Shortly after that talk was given, Elder Bednar did some more interviews that show small clips of him explaining the different aspects of this talk. This is the one I watched today: The Role of the Holy Ghost.
Again, I highly recommend you watch it. It really just is a good reminder.

"Why would the Lord send and angel when the Holy Spirit can bring into remembrance the angel voice of your mother?" 

 I know He lives. I know He loves, comforts and guides us in our day to day lives. We are His children. As Our Father he wants to hear from us daily. He is the Light and the Life.

A New Light

This last month we were able to experience the Festival of Lights. It's really a rather rare opportunity spending time in a Visitors Center.

We are surrounded by the support and love of Senior Couple Missionaries as well as our fellow Sisters. The forty of shared this experience, to support in hard times as well as rejoicing in the miracles.

There was one day, I was on exchanges with our wonderful Japanese sister, she of course, is the only one around that speaks fluent Japanese. As we were on shift, another sister came up and told us that there was a young girl visiting the US as an exchange student from Japan. While we went over to talk to her and her host family, she got the chance to talk to this girl who had been away from home for a little over a month or so. It was such an experience. I stood there and watched them communicate, obviously not able to understand their conversation but what I witnessed was remarkable. This sweet daughter of God had been in such a foreign land with no contact to anyone and little ability to communicate her feelings. As she talked to Sister Nakatska, her eyes welled with tears. We sat downstairs with her and cried a little bit just seeing this sweet miracle that she was able to talk to someone who had been in her shoes not to many years before. I talked to Sister Nakatska a little about their conversation. She just said she knew how the girl felt, to be far from home, to be alone. She said "I just shared my testimony" but I know it was more than just the words, that young girl felt the love of her Savior that night.

Its all we can give, to be an ear, to be a heart, to love, to serve. To do what our Savior would do if he "were ministering to the very people to whom he has sent [us]." Our call as missionaries, to learn, to love, to support to serve. To be witnesses of our Savior in word and in deed.