こんにちは皆さん。Hello everyone!
They always tell me at the MTC, obedience brings blessings. Exact obedience brings miracles. So I'm trying to be exactly obedient by being in bed exactly at 10:30 and every morning I wake up at 6:30am on the dot. I'm also trying the follow every single prompting of the spirit I have and repenting daily from mistakes I make. I know miracles will happen.
Every Sunday and Tuesday we have devotionals.
On Tuesday at our devotional, the choir teacher told a story that is true about a miracle. There was a man in the church who was a bishop, I think, whose 3-year old daughter got ran over by taxi (if I remember right), and she died. She had severe damage and her head was bashed in and people were going to set up a funeral for her.
However, this man and his wife had faith that he could heal her through the power of the priesthood which he held. He was going to do it with some of his close friends and give her a blessings, however, people from all around the neighborhood who heard came to watch. When he started the prayer, he couldn't speak. The Spirit told him that there were unbelievers among the crowd of people and he would not be able to heal her. He turned to the crowd and asked those people to leave and they did. Then he still couldn't do it, so he went home and laid his daughter on her bed with a sheet over her. The Spirit told him,"not yet." Everyone left except for his closest friends and family. He still couldn't heal her, his tongue was still tied. His wife asked him, how much longer did they need to wait, and he told her, "Soon." A few hours later, and then he said that he could bless her. They gave her a blessing that his daughter would be able to hear her parents voice and return to her body and that she would have all of her deep wounds completely healed and would be normal. Then the parents fell asleep next to their daughter's bed as they waited. In the middle of the night the daughter got up, without a single scratch on her body. To this day, she has grown up and has had no brain trauma or any abnormal injuries.
On Tuesday also, Sister Rosemary M. Wixom (general primary president) spoke to us about utilizing Jesus Christ gospel everyday.
Everyday, we need to use each principle: faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost, and endurance to the end:
The gospel is as important as the air that we breathe! We don't tuck away our baptism in a little box because we already were baptized and we don't keep the "Endurance" packed up in a box until we get old. Everyday we need to seek to be better and more like our Savior. The more we seek to be obey God's laws, the more we can see God's hand in our lives.
In choir, we sang a classic primary song, "A Child's Prayer" for Sister Wixom along with some of the MTC presidency's grandchildren. I could feel the love Heavenly Father has for his children as these kids sang! They are so sweet!! I know that God only wants what's best for his children. We are here pressing to become better people so we can receive our own glory through God's son, Jesus Christ. :)
"John 3: 16 ¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life."
Every person is a child of God. He sacrificed his first son so that the rest of the world might be saved. Jesus experienced all manner of pains and afflictions, so we won't have to be over burdened, as long as we believe in his word. He sacrificed his will to do God's will. I know God wants all his children to return back to him after this life. He sobs when we suffer.
I testify that God loves all his children dearly, just as a parent would love their own child. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way to return back to our Heavenly Father's arms. To be welcomed home with open arms, "Well done, you have been faithful."
I testify of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, āmen!
Parker Shimai
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| Artwork of Jesus raising Jairus' daughter from death, Luke 8 or Mark 5 |
Kirsten's mother's note: Kirsten's story about a child being raised from the dead sounds similar to a story (and may be the same) I heard about 10 years ago, about a spiritual Polynesian man (Iohani Wolfgramm), who raised his daughter from the dead. (I think he also went by an anglicized form, "Johanni" or similar). He lived for years in Utah, fulfilling many callings including Patriarch. I was told that the daughter that he raised, later on as an adult wrote a book about her father. I vaguely knew some Wolfgramms in San Diego, CA as a young person.
Here is a link to a blog which relates to the story:
http://visionsandtribulation.blogspot.com/2013/12/iohani-wolfgram-miraculous-healing-of.html
Here is a link to Brother Wolfgramm's online obituary (he died in 1997):
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/584854/Death--Iohani-Otto-Melila-Wolfgramm.html?pg=all
Her book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10012150-iohani-wolfgramm
Iohani Wolfgramm: Man of Faith and Vision, by Tisina Wolfgramm Gerber
