Transfers

Well, transfers rolled around again. Every 6 weeks we missionaries go to a meeting where we are assigned a new companion and possibly a new area. Our mission president, the man who directs all the missionary efforts in the region I serve in (western New York), has called transfers one of the greatest expressions of faith in the Church. Not too surprising of a statement considering the fact that you don't know where you will be sleeping and you don't know who will be sleeping in the bed next to you, a person who you know nothing about, but are now required to stay within sight and hearing of at all times. This person could be someone who has similar likes and interests to you, or he could be as far away from your personality type as he could possibly be. Yet we are still commanded to go out, to work with each other to bring souls to Christ. I have served with 20 different people now in the space of 2 years, and a most remarkable thing has happened with each one. When both of us have served the Lord with all of our "heart, might, mind, and strength" (D&C 4:2), totally unified in purpose, we have found that no matter what our differences might be, we become the best of friends.

President Ezra Taft Benson, the 13th Prophet of the Church taught: “We are commanded by God to take this gospel to all the world. That is the cause that must unite us today. Only the gospel will save the world from the calamity of its own self-destruction. Only the gospel will unite men of all races and nationalities in peace. Only the gospel will bring joy, happiness, and salvation to the human family” (Preach My Gospel pg. 2). I have experienced that unity that comes from living the gospel, I have felt that joy and happiness, and I will never stray from that. I know Christ lives, that he has called a prophet to lead us today, and that by following him with all that I have I will never fall. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.