Tonight's FHE is all about missionaries, in honor of Sam getting his missionary haircut.
The excitement is building as he is getting closer and closer to sending his papers in.
Soooo...
Tonight we will have a little missionary discussion and read this amazing true story:
From the journal of Floyd A. Hill
Testimony of a Missionary
The following event took place in
a ward in Salt Lake City in 1974. It occurred during a sacrament
meeting and was told to me by a Regional Representative of the Twelve
who was in the meeting. A young man, just before leaving on his
mission stood in sacrament meeting and bore in essence the following
testimony:
Brothers and Sisters, as you know,
the past two weeks I've been waiting for my mission call. During the
time I was waiting I had a dream. I knew it was not an ordinary
dream. I dreamed I was in the pre-existence and awaiting my call to
come to earth. I was filled with the same anticipation and excitement
that I had before I received my mission call. In my dream I was
talking to a friend, and I felt a special closeness to him, even
though I've never met him in this life. As we talked a messenger came
and gave me a letter. I knew it was my call to go to earth. In great
excitement my friend and I opened the letter. I gave it to him and
asked him to read it aloud. It said: "You've been called to
earth in a special time and to a special land. You will be born to
the true church and you will have the priesthood of God in your home.
You will born into a land of plenty, in a land of freedom. You will
go to earth in the United States of America."
My friend and I rejoiced as we
read my call, and while we were rejoicing the messenger returned.
This time he had a letter for my friend. We knew it was his call to
earth. My friend gave me the letter to read aloud. His letter said:
"You've been called to go to the earth in circumstances of
poverty and strife. You will not be raised in the true church. Many
hardships will attend your life. Your land will be fraught with
political and social difficulties - which will hinder the work of the
Lord. You will be born in Costa Rica."
We wept, my friend and I, as we
read his call. And my friend looked at me with tears in his eyes, and
said, "When we are down on earth, you in your choice land and me
in Costa Rica, my friend, please come and find me."
The this young missionary, with
tears in his eyes, said, "Brothers and Sisters, I have received
my mission call. I am going to Costa Rica."
There is a sequel to the story.
About a year after the sacrament meeting, the bishop received a
letter from the missionary in Costa Rica. The letter had one sheet of
paper in it and on that sheet written in capital letters were four
words: I FOUND MY FRIEND.
We will talk with the family about how Sam is not the only missionary in our family, but all of us are and should be serving our own missions.
D&C 88:81:
81 Behold, I sent you out to and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to his neighbor.
Matthew 28:19-20:
19 ¶Go ye therefore, and all , them in the name of the , and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 them to all things whatsoever I have you: and, lo, am with you alway, even unto the of the world. Amen.
THEN..
We will watch the movie Forever Strong (thank you neighbor!!) with popcorn and orange juice.
