Friends and Family!
This will be short this week
because not much has changed in this last week. Same tracting for hours and
same not very exciting results. Unfortunately we haven't tracted into any more
miraculous church tours but I hope you all had an opportunity to participate in
one.
This week we will continue trying
and looking toward optimistic results. We'll strive to see with an eye of faith
what is possible in this area and invite as many people as we can to learn
more.
This week's challenge comes from a
story we heard yesterday in a regional broadcast. A woman said as an 11 year
old girl Elder L Tom Perry (an apostle) came to their house to spend the night.
I assume they were visiting the stake or something and her dad was the stake
president. She said Elder Perry offered to help her feed the chickens which was
her chore. She went skipping down the trail to the barn with her flashlight.
Elder Perry, who didn't have a light of his own, tried to follow. She went
skipping along and hopped over a small creek. Elder Perry didn't recognize the
difference between skipping and hopping over a creek, and without a light of
his own, he couldn't see the difference between the ground and the creek
either. Unfortunately, he stepped into the creek and got his foot soaking wet (potentially
tripping too, but no injuries were acquired). On their way back he declared in
his distinct voice "I need my own light!" How profound that is! We
all need our own lights.
I extend my challenge this week,
my penultimate challenge, to each of us. That is to find our own light. Use
borrowed light as needed, but daily strive to find our own light. Christ is The
Light of the world, but He invited each of us in Matthew 5:14 to BE a light to
the world. We must find our own testimony, our own conversion, our own channel
to The Light. May we do so with as much haste and humility as we can
summon!
Have an awesome lighted
week! :)
-Elder Moon
P.S. As a special treat, Elder Moon sent a link to a recording of a version of Homeward Bound (music) and Oh How Lovely was the Morning (lyrics). He is playing the piano and another elder is singing. They will be performing the song in church on Elder Moon's last Sunday--an appropriate time to play Homeward Bound!!
