Email to Family and Friends
This has been a fun week! Haha I feel like I just emailed
home yesterday.
One of our new investigators is progressing really well. He
was a referral from a temple sealer in Sheridan. He will be getting
baptized on November 25. He is just super prepared by the Lord. I
will keep you all updated on him.
"The Destruction of the Family Within Our Own Homes"
The topic I would like to share about this week may be a
little controversial. I feel much like Jacob of old, who said, “It
grieveth me that I must use so much boldness of speech … before … many
… whose feelings are exceedingly tender and chaste and delicate.” (1)
Over the past few years, I have observed a plague that has
slipped into the everyday world of most men and women. This is a
plague that most know but do not understand. I pray that as you read
this, in my weakness of writing, that the Spirit may touch your hearts
and lead you to change. The world has come to call this disease,
video-games.
Now before those of you who think what I have to say is of
no worth, I plead that you may try to read my words with an open
mind. God has commanded me to speak on this, my words are his words,
so if you ignore these words, you are ignoring the words of God
himself. And no one would want to do that.
Yes, on the surface video-games seem harmless and fun. But
as you look into the lives of those whom this canker dwells. Their
lives are full of idleness. That is one of the first but simple sins
video-games bring to the lives of the children of men.
As I have watched the lives of my family, friends, those I
teach, and my companions; I have noticed that those whose lives are
full of video-games are always full of, if not all, some of these
things! Idleness, immaturity, lack of the Spirit, frustrated with
themselves while blaming it on others, and one of the most common,
pornography. Those I know who struggle with pornography, almost always
struggle with video-games.
VIDEO-GAMES DESTROY FAMILIES! I can not say that boldly
enough. If you love your family, if you truly, truly, care about your
loved ones. Please heed this council, stop it!
As members of the church we hear and say over and over that
families are forever. This is true, but we have to remember that
families are only eternal if we make that sacred covenant and if we
KEEP this covenant! Do we care more about our and our families eternal
salvation, or do would we rather waste this mortal, preparatory state
in front of television and mobile devise screens and go down to
eternal damnation? Answer me that, but do not answer me with your
words. "For what you do speaks so loudly that what you say I cannot
hear." Show your family you love them through your actions.
Once again, the one that has opened my eyes to this, is my
beloved brother Jed. Like I once said, I have never seen a greater
missionary than him. But I have never actually saw him when he was a
missionary. And I don't need to. I know with all my heart that he was
one of the mightiest missionaries of this last dispensation, because
of how I saw the atonement change his very nature. From a little
brothers perspective, he left a boy, and he came home one worthy of
being called a concentrated disciple of Jesus Christ.
One thing he changed, stuck out to me more than others. He
wouldn't even touch a video game. You could tell in his eyes that
looked on them with disgust. And I wanted to know why. I never asked
him, but I now know why! And I hope you do as well.
Again, I am weak in writing, but this is what God has spoken
and I know he will make my words mighty. Heed my words! Your eternal
happiness weighs on it. You will be blessed more than you can even
begin to comprehend.
Our Father in heaven loves us so much! He lives! He speaks
to a prophet on earth once again. He has not left alone, nor will he
ever. I love you! And I care about each of you dearly. And I say these
things in one of the most sacred and holy names given to us, Jesus
Christ, amen.Elder Philip R. Bredsguard
philip.bredsguard@myldsmail.
917 Amoretti St Thermopolis, WY 82443
Notes
1. Jacob 2:6-8
2. I can't remember
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