Mission Conference - June 7, 2021

 Mission Conference
June 7, 2021

Hey Ma,
 
I really enjoyed this week and all of the meetings that came with it. I was able to feel spiritual witnesses to all that was said and done. MLC was a great start to the week and I enjoyed the trainings given on repentance. I think it is important to remember that we can always be better than we were the last day. 

Then the next day we had ZLC which was amazing. Following around the same kind of style of training we received earlier we gave it to our District leaders. It went great for our zone and all of the District Leaders had great council and ideas on how to help the zone be better. Then Friday was our Zone Council, it was great! I felt the spirit strongly that whole meeting. We discussed and taught our zone how we can do better and how we can improve. We still need to ask and receive feedback for how it went. I started off with reading my mission call. I hadn't fully realized that it can help strengthen a desire there and how the blessings promised if we do what we have accepted. Then we talked about principle based obedience instead of blind obedience and how there is so much joy to be found through this. And it all starts with repentance and that desire to be like Christ. To end the meeting we had the District leaders get up and share promised blessings for their specific District based on the mission commitment. Then closed with singing The Spirit Of God which brought the spirit so much more powerfully than before. 

I have a new love for that song, cause as we sing it on the stand waiting for Elder Gong I could feel the Spirit come over me and was just so amazing. The other great thing was all of the lessons we were able to teach as well. 

To share something from my studies goes back to the song The Spirit of God. In the first verse second line we read "The visions and blessings of old are returning," and it brought to think of the Book of Mormon especially the chapters where it prophesies of its coming forth. Which goes on to show that the visions of old have returned and more continue. The Book of Mormon is full of visions and blessings of old and now we can read them. While I was thinking on that song and those chapters. One prophecy came back up and it is in Chapter 27 of 2 Nephi where Isaiah says that a learned man won't be able to read a sealed book. That can apply to us today. If we read the Book of Mormon with just the intent to read and then call it good we won't truly learn something or with a secular mind it may be hard to understand certain chapters. But if we have the Spirit with us and a true interest then the Book of Mormon unfolds itself to us. I thought that was an interesting way of reading those verses and hearing that song.

 
That was the week of busy meetings 
 
Love Elder Cormack