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Monday, November 27, 2017

November 27, 2017, "My Testimony"


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          Haha, I am going to go ahead and start off with an apology to all. I am so sorry my emails are so lame. Haha all week the Spirit was telling to repent for not telling everyone how my weeks have been going. Don't worry I haven't been lying, I am very happy and working hard. I just could tell some stories :)
          This week we went on exchanges with the Assistants down in Billings. Haha Billings is 7 hours away from our house! 8 hours or more in bad weather (which it was!). Haha that is like driving from home to Jakes or Nana and Papas house just to go on an exchange!! That's crazy!! But it was a fantastic exchange and we got to go to the Temple! We drove through Butte! It was so cool to drive through it again!
          Thanksgiving was great! We were very well fed! We ate at 9 places haha from noon to 9 one place every hour :). 
          Haha every night when I get home after I write in my journal, I am just so worn out, I think I fall asleep within 3-5 mins after getting in bed. It's a great life though.
         There is a couple we have been trying over and over again to go and visit since I have been here. There situation is exactly like Jes and JRs! Not 100% but I would say 95%. So we went by last night just to try them and when we got there they both had tears in their eyes, we arrived just minutes after some sort of argument of sorts. He is not a member, she is. As we talk of family and forgiveness, the Spirit flooded the home. It was amazing to see how the Spirit works. :) (And we are going to have Sushi with them on Thursday for dinner!)

"My Testimony"

          Family and Friends, I know that my Savior lives. I know that our Father in Heaven cares so much about each of us. I know Jesus Christ came and died for each of us and rose again that we too might live again. This is my testimony, and I say it in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


Elder Philip R. Bredsguard

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Monday, November 20, 2017

November 20, 2017, "A Vine and Her Fruit"


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          So I forgot to say this last week but, it was Transfers. Elder Wadsworth got transferred to Missoula, and my new companion in Kalispell is Elder Madsen from Brigham City, Utah.
           We have been having some amazing lessons! Elder Madsen is an awesome teacher. A young woman we are teaching accepted the invitation to baptism yesterday! Whoohoo!

"A Vine and Her Fruit"

          Just this morning I was reading in 3 Nephi, I was reading where Christ is reciting Malachi 3 to the Nephites. Malachi is speaking to his people of tithing, and we are familiar with verse 10 when he says "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house; and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it." (1)
          But one thing stuck out to me more than the rest as I read. In the following verse he continues "neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the fields, saith the Lord of Hosts." (2)
           I feel this is a very special promise from the Lord, that as we will pay our tithing, we will not miss opportunities that may give each of us the chance to better support our families. It is a literal financial blessing, that I have never thought of before I read this today.
          Our Father is so merciful and loves each of us, he wants to bless us! In the name of Jesus Christ amen.

Notes
  1. 3 Nephi 24:10 or Malachi 3:10
  2. 3 Nephi 24:11 or Malachi 3:11

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Monday, November 13, 2017

November 13, 2017, "Sacrifice"


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          Haha I never know what to say in these anymore. There is one experience I can share from this week. Friday night, we KNEW that God had prepared someone in this specific neighborhood. We were tracting. And we started knocking and knocking, door after door, there was only disappointment. It was cold, I was hungry, but we knew someone needed us after a few hours, we knocked on just another door. And this gentleman that saw us pleaded with us to come in, we was a member who has got lost for a brief while. His wife is not a member and they have a year and a half year old, and they have another one on the way. And they just moved in a week prior, and he was praying for the missionaries to come by. We were just full of love for them! 

"Sacrifice"

This is a letter from our Mission Presidents wife to us missionaries.

          "In the Book of Mormon when Aaron was teaching King Lamoni’s father he asked Aaron what he needed to do to have eternal life and when Aaron taught him King Lamoni’s father said, “…I will give up all that I possess, yea, I will forsake my kingdom, that I may receive this great joy.” (Alma 22:15) King Lamoni’s father had desire. 
            "What do each of you desire?  What are we willing to give up?  “Righteous desires need to be relentless.”  Elder Maxwell said, “because, said Brigham Young, ‘the men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle every day.’ (in Journal of Discourses, 11:14)  Therefore, true Christian soldier are more than weekend warriors” Remember that we all put effort in to what we truly desire.   May we desire to be His ROYAL ARMY!"
          

Elder Philip R. Bredsguard

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Monday, November 6, 2017

November 6, 2017, "Wolves"


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          Well the work has never been as good as it is now! We are seeing success left and right. God has been blessing us so much! We see literal miracles everyday! All of the members here are out teaching their friends and the work is just exploding up here in Kalispell! We had 5 investigators at church yesterday which was probably the most they have had here in the last 4-5 months at least. 
           Haha we got 14 inches of snow this week, my new profile picture right now is our backyard haha that is like15 yards from my window :) Absolutely beautiful!

"Wolves"

          One of my favorite stories of the Native people, is a story of a grandson talking to his grandpa. The child says to his wise grandfather, "Papa, I feel like there is two wolfs fighting inside of me, one is white the other is black, what is this?", "My son, one is good and the other is evil", "Papa, who will win?" said the child. "Which ever one you feed more"
           In the Book of Alma, Mormon is wrapping up telling us a story of war and he says, "And in one year were thousands and tens of thousands of souls sent to the eternal world, that they might reap their rewards according to their works, whether they were good or whether they were bad, to reap eternal happiness or eternal misery, according to the spirit which they listed to obey, whether it be a good spirit or a bad one. For every man receiveth wages of him whom he listeth to obey, and this according to the words of the spirit of prophecy; therefore let it be according to the truth." (1)
            This is the battle of life, it will never end so long as we are in this mortal body. Jehovah once said "And we will prove them [us here, right now] herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;" Then he gave this great promise "and they who keep their second estate [or in other words, feed the light wolf] shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever." (2)
             We are made to win this war, we have the strength of the Almighty God though the power and glory of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. All he asks is that we trust in him, rely on him, and follow him. As we do so the light with in us will grow brighter and brighter tell the darkness has no place within our soul. I pray that each of us can do this, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Notes
  1. Alma 3:26-27

Elder Philip R. Bredsguard


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