I love getting missionary newsletters, especially Senior missionary letters. The older missionaries describe the work well, but many times it’s the young missionaries who get the best photo opportunities. This picture below is of a Fijian missionary (far left) on his mission to India. And yes! He really did get to see Mother Theresa! And yes! He really did give her a Book of Mormon. That is the book she is holding!
The Book of Mormon has all the plain truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that were taken out of the Bible – by apostate Hebrews in the Old Testament, errors of translation, as well as apostate Christians in the New Testament. Key information about the Fall of Adam, the Infinite Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the probationary state that is life, the principle of free agency, the New and Everlasting Covenant of God, and the importance of the doctrine of Christ, ie. faith in Jesus Christ unto repentance, baptism by immersion for the remission of sin and the reception of the Holy Ghost through priesthood ordinance. All of these Christian principles are clarified and enlarged upon in the Book of Mormon.
This is truly the time of the Restoration of all Things spoken of in Acts 3:20-21.
…and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
The Book of Mormon is the great instrument of this exciting time.
Steve and I have accepted a call to serve in the Bulgaria/Greece Mission. Our Mission Presidents are sending us to support the Branch in Limassol, Cyprus. Unlike our last mission in Costa Rica where we managed finances and immigration visas for the young missionaries, this time we will be supporting the local members and recording Church History, ancient and modern, found in the area. That’s all we know now, but we’ll be better informed next week during training.
Cyprus is a country in the mediterranean that lies south of Turkey, east of Syria and north of Egypt.
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