Hold The Ground Which You Stand On!

Q.  How is President Harding doing?

A.  President is doing well he went in for surgery on Friday and is going to be leaving the hospital here in the next couple of days. His faith and resilience is incredible. During his stay he has given out 25 copies of the Book of Mormon!

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Q.  Who can we pray for this week?

A.  We are set to have a Baptism on Sunday for a lady by the name of Linda. She has really bad health problems so we are praying morning, midday and night for ten minutes for her health to be okay this week.

Hello Family,

What an amazing week this has been for me personally out here as a representative of Jesus Christ doing as He would do and putting full faith in Him and His divine power.

Atlanta, Georgia Temple

This week as leaders in the mission we had our monthly opportunity to attend and visit the temple two days prior to General Conference. We used it as time in which we could prepare ourselves for conference in seeking out inspiration and revelation as to what the next steps as a mission should be. The incredible feelings we unitedly experienced in the temple that day are best explained in the Doctrine and Covenants 109:22-23 and 39. 

D&C 109:

22  And we ask thee, Holy Father, that thy servants may go forth from this house armed with thy power, and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory be round about them, and thine angels have charge over them;

23  And from this place they may bear exceedingly great and glorious tidings, in truth, unto the ends of the earth, that they may know that this is thy work, and that thou hast put forth thy hand, to fulfil that which thou hast spoken by the mouths of the prophets, concerning the last days.

39  And whatsoever city thy servants shall enter, and the people of that city receive their testimony, let thy peace and thy salvation be upon that city; that they may gather out of that city the righteous, that they may come forth to Zion, or to her stakes, the places of thine appointment, with songs of everlasting joy;

To be endowed with our Heavenly Father's mind and power (His will) in order to know how to teach, how to preach and how to talk with everyone, inviting all to hear the glad message of the restored gospel stems directly from going to the temple as often as possible to renew our covenants and as we do being endowed with the further light and knowledge we need to accomplish this and move the good work along! Our prayers were answered by our Heavenly Father at the temple through the inspired spoken word and confirmation of the Holy Ghost during General Conference.

Our desire as a mission is to be able to involve the wards and stakes even more in the work; for we know and were borne witness to at conference that EVERY MEMBER' A MISSIONARY is the way. In order to do more as the Lord has asked of us, we must as members of His church regardless of being a full-time missionary or not, share in the Lord's proclamation to "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15) -- SHARE THE GOSPEL with EVERYONE we meet! As this was talked about during the sessions, we jumped for joy in the church we were watching where only missionaries were in attendance; as we have come to know that we can knock, and knock and knock on doors 'til we drop but there is a better way. The Lord's way...through everyone one of us as members of the church and disciples of Christ..He will help us and bless us through our covenants as we do. I invite you to follow the prophets counsel to invite everyone anyone to hear the mighty missionaries teach and testify of Him, of the only message that matters, of the restored gospel.

I love you all and am grateful for your prayers in my behalf and to my dear mother thank your for your divine nature and your service as the primary president. The lessons learned of always putting the little ones first and helping them feel of our Heavenly Fathers love will never be forgotten. HOLD THE GROUND IN WHICH YOU STAND ON!

Love Elder Gautavai