Email to Family and Friends
Hello family! I hope everything is well on your side of life! We had another one of our favorite families come to Church this week! I absolutely love watching and being able to assist in growth of my fellow brothers and sisters as they learn and are quick to live the truth, the Gospel, the Plan of Salvation, whatever you feel like calling it. :)
I have been starting my new Book of Mormon and my topic this time is Jesus Christ, just everything about him and I am loving it!
"Truth Eternal, Truth Divine"
A favorite British scholar of Elder Hollands once said, "I don't really think that all who choose wrong roads perish, but I do think that their rescue consists of being put back on the right road. A mathematical sum incorrectly worked can be put right but only by going back until you find the error and then working it fresh from that point. It will never be corrected simply by going on. Evil can be undone but it cannot develop into good; worlds without end. Time does not heal it and the spell must be unwound."
Elder Holland continued on and said, "Nothing will hurt you more than what you don't know." Plato also declared "It is better to be unborn than untaught for ignorance is at the root of all misfortune."
Truth lived is the essence of a happy life. Once truth is applied joy follows, every time. And until we know and live all truth we cannot experience full and never ending joy.
I will give to you this great truth, "that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise. Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and they that believe in him shall be saved." (1)
I testify that a truly happy life can only be built upon Jesus Christ, he is the source of all truth, and the Book of Mormon contains those truths, because there is no other book where they are put so simply. That is why Joseph Smith said "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” (2) In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Elder Philip R. Bredsguard
Mission Home- 1848 Rimrock Rd Billings, MT 59102
Current Address- 3095 Airport Rd Kalispell, MT 59901
Notes
- 2 Nephi 2:8-9
- Introduction to the Book of Mormon
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