Email to Family and Friends
Elder Tucker and I have had an amazing week! We started teaching 5 solid new households this week!! Great families!
One of my favorite people here is named Dean, he has met with the missionaries a lot over the last 7 years. And this last Sunday, he finally came to church!! We were so proud of him, he seemed like he had an amazing time. It was defiantly the highlight of the week.
Happy Father's Day to all of you Fathers, whether you be of my family or out! I hope it was a great one for each of you.
"Establish the Truth of the First"
As a missionary I am asked quite often "Why do we have the Book of Mormon, why do we need it?" There are many answers to these questions, but I would like to focus on just one answer today. And it is an answer the Book of Mormon itself gives. "For behold, this [the Book of Mormon] is written for the intent that ye may believe that [the Holy Bible]" (1)
Nephi, as he is seeing the vision his father saw, quoted the angel when he said, "And the angel spake unto me, saying: These last records [the Book of Mormon] , which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall establish the truth of the first, which are of the twelve apostles of the Lamb [the Holy Bible]" (2)
Brethren, God has given us the Book of Mormon, to show the whole world that the Bible is true! Those who are fighting the Book of Mormon around us, simply just don't quite yet understand what is contained in its pages. Please be patient with those who mock and scorn the Book of Mormon, they may just need and loving friend to let them know what the Book of Mormon is really about.
They may not quite yet understand that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto the world that he is God, that he remembers one nation like unto another. Wherefore he speaks the same words like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.
And this he does that he may prove unto many that he is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that he speaks forth his own words according to his own pleasure. (3)
May we even remember, that the divine mission of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, wasn't just to bring forth and testify of the Book of Mormon, but also to convince all the world that the Bible was the very word of God. (4)
I testify of the truth in the scriptures, and say unto all who will read this that God will show unto you, with power and great glory at the last day, that they are true. (5) In my Masters name, Jesus Christ, amen.
Elder Philip R. Bredsguard
Mission Home: 1848 Rimrock Road, Billings, Montana
Current Address: 312 3rd Ave. N. #8 Great Falls MT 59401
Notes
- Mormon 7:9
- 1 Nephi 13:40
- See 2 Nephi 29:8-9
- See 2 Nephi 3:11
- See Moroni 7:35
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