27 Mar 2017

Faith?

I learned that every scripture does apply in my life and I will going to share couple of scripture and I do really like it in 1 Nephi 18 :

15 And it came to pass that we were about to be swallowed up in the depths of the sea. And after we had been driven back upon the waters for the space of four days, my brethren began to see that the judgments of God were upon them, and that they must perish save that they should repent of their iniquities; wherefore, they came unto me, and loosed the bands which were upon my wrists, and behold they had swollen exceedingly; and also mine ankles were much swollen, and great was the soreness thereof.

16 Nevertheless, I did look unto my God, and I did praise him all the day long; and I did not murmur against the Lord because of mine afflictions.

21 And it came to pass after they had loosed me, behold, I took the compass, and it did work whither I desired it. And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord; and after I had prayed the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there was a great calm.

22 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did guide the ship, that we sailed again towards the promised land.

Those verses help me a lot to do better at prayers whenever the trails comes. It help me to remember the promise of God as we do His work we will able to obtain His promise. He promise that Nephi will get a promise land and I believe that He will helps us to feel His promise. 

Miracles?

My companion and I were planning to make an activity with the sisters to help them to feel enthusiastic doing this work. We were walking down to the street and I felt prompting by the spirit that as soon as we saw that lady was struggling to lock the gate and we approached her and helped her and she loves us so much. Anyway, we were talking about Family can be happy forever and she believe that concept and I do know as we apply the principles from the gospel we will be able to help both happy (Spiritual and Physical). She beg on us to come to her house and share a special message. I know how wonderful as we really want to help people and have that desires in our heart we can see God helps us in His work. 

13 Mar 2017

Increasing my faith?

 I read 

36 Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.

 37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day. Those two verses very comfort me and I came to realize that I need to rely more unto God because He helps me a ton. I felt like these scriptures help me to gain my faith and to understand more and rely more to Jesus Christ atonement.

Miracles?

Last week we taught our deft investigator and he's awesome and I'm way excited to see him into the water of baptism soon, around this coming May. We went to our area last week and we went to Permy and I felt like the holy ghost slapped me on my face and telling me that I should turn right and soon I turned right we met a huge family that are so nice (Well, they recognize us as orang putih not as Iban). We were talking about why they going to the church every week and they have no reason beside than follow their friend. We were sharing a simple thing in restoration and the best part was Joseph Smith. Soon, we turn to Joseph smith picture and his son surprise and turned his phone and he put the Joseph Smith as his wallpaper but he has no clue till we found them. We asked him where he got it and he tld us from the website and random pictures from the internet. That was really miracle.

working with member?

first off- we got 94 attendance at the church and 24 Priesthood holders were coming to the church and it way surprise me. We just made a foundation of Miri this week and they working together so well. Since it does working we gonna make sure it last for long term.

6 Mar 2017

Building faith as a foundation to my testimony is so important . As the time of old the house of Israel will fast as they wanted to asking help from God. I do really know that fast is the best way to receive the answer. I would say fast also encourage us to do what's right and we can feel the present of God close to us. I was fasting for many days. In my fasting I included the prayer either I need to extend my mission or not. I was so surprising when He does answered my prayer thru dream. I want to share little bit about that. You were calling me as a ZL there and interviewing me about that and when I said "I want to extend my mission." you were agree with that and in my dream I have no clue why do I need to mentioned that. Once I wake up I'm thankful for the revelation that he has given unto me as I faithful to serve his children. I'm still study and focus to the assignments that you gave to us last week. I found out the coolest things about the creation of heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. 

Miracles?

We have more than 70+ attendance last week. I'm so grateful for the blessing that heavenly Father gave us. 7 investigators in sacrament meeting and we have like 20+ priesthood came. Now we are really focus to bring back the lost sheep and finding people thru the Gold Mines. I testify the Miri 2nd is on FIRE now. We saw couple of inactive coming to the church after the first visit and sharing about their testimony and the restoration of the gospel.

9 Jan 2017

Faith?
This last week I have been thinking that I should count the blessing that I had receive from Heavenly Father. I did prayer and suddenly my mind just stuck with this "Jesus Christ and His atonement". Once I finished my prayer I think about His Atonement and it had has been healing my feeling before. There is another phase of the atonement which makes me love the savior even more and fills my soul with gratitude beyond expression. It is that in addition to atoning for Adam's transgression, thereby bringing about the resurrection, the savior by his suffering paid the debt for the personal sins of every living soul that ever dwelt upon the earth. But this he did conditionally. The benefits of this suffering for our individual trangressions will not come to us unconditionally in the same sense that the Resurrection will come regardless of what we do.

Miracle 1:
We felt so sorry to our muslim neighbor which is feeling not well. They are very nice to us, they gave us some foods before. When we meet them in the elevator the mom felt so sick and we can't do anything except pray for her. I had a thought that we should cook for her and she will be happy because we're showing that we care about them even though different religion. So once we arrive at home and we were cooking for her and we gave them the food. We felt better after gave them that food (they accepted it). The next day we accidentally met them under our apartment and we asked how is her feeling? She told us she that she felt even better and even said that when we are so nice with her and her family, her sickness and pain are gone. She grateful for the food that we had been provide for them and she expressed her thankful that they have such a kind neighbor like us. She said it for a few times. I remember the story of Jesus Christ healing a lot of people that were sick, dumb, blind and so on. I thought we just represent Jesus Christ in our action, work, thought and desire, because we just practice our Christlike. Eventhough they are muslim, to be kind is unlimited to Heavenly Father's children. By Elder Dale G. Renlund:
 The closer we are to Jesus Christ in the thoughts and intents of our hearts, the more we appreciate His innocent suffering, the more grateful we are for grace and forgiveness, and the more we want to repent and become like Him. Our absolute distance from Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is important, but the direction we are heading is even more crucial. God is more pleased with repentant sinners who are trying to draw closer to Him than with self-righteous, faultfinding individuals who, like the Pharisees and scribes of old, do not realize how badly they need to repent.”

Each Sunday we partake of the sacrament, we covenant to always remember the Savior and keep his commandments as well as take upon ourselves His name. These promises we make, if kept, enable us to draw closer to Jesus Christ “in the thoughts and intents or our hearts” so that we become more grateful for what He has done for us. They also motivate us to try and become more like Him

Miracle 2 :
Prayer bring Miracle. We were with recent convert to proselyte. Before we begin the contacting we start with a prayer and she put very spesific prayer and I can felt the spirit. Soon after that we felt very excited to do missionary work. We were sharing some random scriptures with them. At the first time we were sharing about repentance and it was kind of weird cause they didn't really know much about it. But I felt the spirit as I shared with them. Second is we were sharing a random scripture and it was talking about faith and rejoice and the person that we talking with were very interested and he accepted our invitation to meet again. I knew that as we rely more to him, He will bless us with comfort or as know as miracles.

Miracle 3:
our investigator just back from china and we called them to set an appointment to meet again and they accepted it. When we were teaching her, her mom asking us if her daughter can be baptized before her father going back to shanghai. She always goes to church since 7 years old until now so it is a big deal for her to be baptized now. :)

19 Dec 2016

hi Guys! how are you its been so long that I didn't really share about my day int the mission. So sorry. Last monday we played bowling with the sisters and we had so much fun. Actually it wasn't a normal how to play it but we created many styles to play it and had fun. We bought some stuff for making some cookies. The next day we planned to decorate our house for Christmas. We went to swarma joint to had a lunch. We taught our recent convert and we focus on the Book of Mormon. We planned to meet with a member that wasn't active for many years and we found out their house. We just met the children and they kinda aware with us because we had their information but we did explain it. Miracles beside that, we are heading toward the ampang's church but our bus got stop by a cop and he wants to check everyone passport. SO my companion didn't bring his passport. Everyone got checked except him. The cop just passed by him and didn't ask for his document. One indonesian guy got into trouble because he doesn't get any cop in his passport. That was our miracle that my companion didn't get arested. Next day we tried to looking part member family to become our investigator but we had a hard time to find it. We did ask several people but they didn't really know. We were there about 2 hours and eventually we found it. At night we taught our investigators and they are very nice and understanding. Sister Aima called us and asked where are we but we told her that we left already. Next times we want to call her beforehand to arrange the appointment. On Thursday, we did exchanges at night. Also we made a lot of cookies. Next day during exchanges brother Jericho helped us to find the less active and we found out that they moved already and we didn't have their information. The phone doesn't work. We contacting a lot. We asked our member to accompany us, her name is sister Samaneh and her family are my favorite. Our investigator didn't show up for an hour and we decided to teach her. very simple lesson. on the 17 december we had Christmas party. Awww, so much fun. I joined the pilipino's group and sang their song. Sister Elejer, Brother Jonas Ee, my companion and I sang in Iban's song also. That was my first time enjoyed the Christmas party. On sunday we preparing to go to church and I dying because I'm sick for couple of day and I can't do anything. I got viral infection. We did contacting a lot and went home and I took a nap because I felt sick so much. 

I hope I won't get sick anymore. I hate it.

See you again next week.

By,

Elder Gara

12 Dec 2016

Thia Merry Christmas is so meaningful for those whose whose knows what Christmas is.

Faith? 

We believe that he will help us in the process if repentance. Faith can't be exercise without repentance. For those who have repentance of their sin the same is forgiven and I the LORD remember them no more (D&C 58:42). I'm grateful for the sacrament that I always take every sunday to remember about Jesus Christ and his atonement. This coming Christmas I remember the promise of GOD to all mankind, He will help us to be free and his son will reigns among all of us. Many thousands years ago Jesus Christ was born and He reigns, establish the church, administer the church, performed many miracles and accomplish the atonement. Jesus Christ obey God's commandments. I commit to myself that I will try to obeying him by strive be faithful to him. Broken heart and contrite spirit stated in Moroni 6:1-4 and D&C 20:37, Alma 12:32 God gave unto them commandments; having made known unto them the plan of redemption.Having faith in him and be faithful to him bring blessing. Enos 1:12 I will grant unto  thee according to thy desires because of thy faith. Also President Thomas S monson said in his talk a couple years ago, formula that will ensure our success 1. search scriptures with diligence 2. Plan your life with purpose 3. Teach the truth with testimony 4. Serve the lord with love. I want to emphasize the point number 4. There is no substitute for love, successful missionaries loves their companion, their mission leaders and the precious person whom they teach. It remind me to D&C 4:2,5-6.

Miracles?

Last monday we met a guy. His name is Kevin. We talked about Christmas. We also share about our purpose here. He kind of interested and we set appointment with him the next day. The next day he brought his friend to join us in his lesson. We found out that his fiend is Buddha. Since his friend knows english but not really that good. We taught them together. A lot new things that she doesn't know and the big word in gospel. I was help her to understand it by spoke in Chinese and she told me that my Chinese good enough for the gospel and I'm totally happy. I knew how to speak Chinese but not in the gospel, Holy spirit help me to speak and I knew its true. Also, we pray before the lesson that holy spirit my with us. I felt the spirit so strong as I testified in simple english. I knew He is there. 

5 Dec 2016

Faith to know that He's loves me is never become less but more and more. As I strive to be faithful and to see how much he loves me I come to know that He loves me not because of my strength, my good looking or my weaknesses but because all of us are children of God. I'm so grateful for that we have a hymn says this "I'm A Child Of God" it's so amazing! When we kneel down and pray to him we will ask him for the direction neither for us and others and it was mentioning in that hymn "lead me guide me walk beside me help me find the way" and He help us thru trails in Ether 12:27 state I will show them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. Its remind me to my dream few months ago which is I will face a ton of trails neither in the mission or after the mission and before I return unto him one day. He ever said "rich blessing are in store if I but learn too do his will I'll live with him once more". That is the promise from our Heavenly Father and I grateful for the tools that He was given unto us that we should turn unto him and grow as it mentioned in I am a child of God - Teach me all that I must do to live with him someday. That's mean the teaching of Jesus Christ by his prophet, prayer, scriptures, revelations and the gift of the holy ghost and so on. I come to know that I should rely unto him more and more and repent like a little child. Sin no more. I have learn that every single scriptures, hymn and church materials help me to expand my mind unto Savior Jesus Christ and my faith even more stronger. Last few days I had a dream that I saw Elder Bednar interviewed someone and they sat on the chairs and a table but both chairs and table are standing in the air. I walked in to know what was happening and he showed up and I asked him (Elder Bednar) "How did you do that?" and he told me "With Faith nothing is impossible" and next morning I thinking about it. That was weird dream. God loves us so much and so our needs are great and he reach out in love by giving us revelation for ourselves. Help me to understand his words before it grows too late and I totally grateful for the leaders that help me to understand his meaning and apply it into my life. The sunday school teacher, elders quorum and president branch which has inspire me to do this work.p I came to know that we should JOY to do his work. In D&C 31:3 lift up your heart and rejoice, for the hour of our mission is come, and your tongue shall be loosed and you shall declare glad tidings of great JOY unto this generation.  

Miracles?

We went to investigator's house because we almost drop him, its been awhile that he hadn't meet us because too busy. 1st door that we knock was a Muslim old lady showed up, she open the door and we staring at each other about couple minutes and we have no idea what did she said (Not normal Malay language must be other tribe) and she shut the door and we were so confuse because we thought that was our investigators house, it was level 4, door end. We went to other building (Level 4, door's end) and outside of the door had an Arabic writing and we were totally confused and we thought he was move to other place. The door before them was open and the Christmas decoration so beautiful and we decided to knock that door and wanted to share a special message about Christmas. The owner of that house showed up and he is the investigators that we were looking for!!! We felt the spirit to knock that door actually. We had a great lesson and we got couple of referrals for him. One of them pretty good and very involve in the lesson.

Working with the members is not something new since church was established. I come to know that working with the clerk to get branch action list. We know that will help us soon. We build the trust and good relationship. We taught our members to use facebook and proselyting with it last few days  and he thought that was awesome. I knew it! It's going to be awesome with a lot of members involved in and we just our branch mission leader and he will copy and paste it on facebook. Now we also still working with the members information sheets. Some of the very hard to find the best time but we will make sure it will be done before next year.

17 Oct 2016

I got a lot miracles and my faith is growing day by day. When I take over the area and try to follow the counsel of leaders I can see myself become even more involved with the missionary work. In PMG (Recognize the spirit) I learn how to pray with focus to the work. Woah! I'm grateful for PMG that make me realize the thing that I should improve on. I want to share these scriptures in Alma 7:
 11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

 12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

 13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.

 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his onlybegotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should notperish, but have everlasting life

That scripture make me realize that I should use atonement of Jesus Christ and believe in enabling power. I read my patriachal blessing the other day and I feel the spirit. It' was so powerful for me. It said "You receive many revelations as I make my journey through this mortal life." How great is that blessing. Last few day I was fasting (Personal Fasting)  to ask heavenly father will help me with something, I knew it's hard to become a reality but I still fasting for it. Some reasons that I fasting because I want to strengthen my own testimony about the book of Mormon. Sometime I still doubt about the truthfulness even though most of the time I know it's true. I was fasting that day and I got the answer thru dream. I was in some places and then I attended one meeting, eventually I got to see President Thomas S. Monson gave a talk. He said : Be thoughtful and positively and that will bless you. Very short message but it does mean a lot to me when I wake up. I should not doubt about the book of MOrmon. I know it's  true. I'm grateful for our living Prophet.

Miracles?

I felt prompted by the holy ghost that I should be more smarter in this work. Use my experience and apply it to this area. So I texts to all our former investigators and some of them responds to it. Once we done we are about going to new investigator's house.  When I talk with one muslim in LRT to asked referrals, one girl staring at me and smile but I felt uncomfortable, once we need to get off from that train she text us and said "Hi elder I think we just meet to each other in the train. Elder Gara said good bye to me. Who's wear the black dress its me clarrisa." and I felt I had missing that opportunity but I grateful for heavenly father that He open that former investigator heart and she set appointment with us this coming Tuesday . Yahoo. Other day I like to find Texas Chicken Restaurant I asked a lady that stood side of the road. Since we asking her and gave us direction we still didn't get it. We asking her if she is christian and she is! We taking about Christianity, the taxi driver gave her a call because she booked taxi but then she canceled it because she wants to listen to our messages. She shows us the way to get their. We met her again in the mall after she done show us the way. She referrals her husband to us. and we are able to talk a little bit about gospel to them. We are so excited to meet them again. Family!!!

26 Sept 2016

I know that my redeemer lives, that is the words that I always sing and I love it so much. I really need to be a lot of patience in my missionary work. I facing a rough times this last week but I was thinking about this is the lord work. It kind of really challenge me to do more work and test my patience. I've been so frustrated this last week. Last 3 days I got headache because thinking so much. I exercising my faith thru hymns. Now in order to make ourselves enjoy the missionary work and be happy we will work toward our goals and set a theme for our district. "O KL mountains high" refer to hymn number 34. I do really enjoy it.

12 Sept 2016

Faith? 

In the new testament said " Faithful and just faith without an action can't save you". I remember hymn number 219 I've been given much made me feel that I should be even more humble. I would say that I gain my testimonies according to my faith which is true but without repentance it's nothing. WE DONE NOTHING. In the book of mormon and the bible always mentioned about REPENTANCE in our lives. We have give so much that we can do to all things according to his will. In process of repentance we are really need a HUMBLE heart. Humble heart is very important to receive a revelation and to have a spirit of God. I still remember in the bible said "a rich guy are very humble to ask but very hard to keep his commandment, which is share his money to other people and to help them". Faith meaning believe that Jesus is the Christ and thru him we are able to change our heart, repentance with action, and become like Him.

Miracle? 

This last week we brought our investigator to another potential investigators' house and to learn about Jesus Christ. While we explain with her about pray she couldn't understand it very well. Our investigator that we brought interrupted the conversation and explain to her even more and that made us impressed. He is solid investigator. Eventually, out potential investigator got it but she was so shy to pray.

7 Mar 2016

Hello, How are you guys? what about this week? I'd been so much feel the savior love this week. That's awesome hu? haha. I would like to invite all of you to think about "what the savior done for us"? Well, this week gonna be awesome week ever! How could? As long as we work hard and invite the spirit to accompany us we'll find the happiness. 

Last monday we went to sister Dara's house and we had the best role play ever! We asked them to be a missionary and we became a potential investigators. What a flip! We felt the spirit very strong there and we taught them a lttle bit about missionary work. Also, we had a great dinner in their hose! They are so awesome. The next day  we met with 1 sabah guy named "Affah" and we taught him about the restoration and suprising thing was his girlfriend is a member of the church from Philippines and consider as LA since she moved to Malaysia. She helped us a ton in the lesson and she wants to back to the church again because she didn't know where the church is but right now she already knews it. On wednesday I was exchanges with elder Shirley. He is one of nice elder because I can see that he is brave even though his chienese not that good but he still wanna try to  talk to everyone. We working together since I also can speak chinese. We went to our investigators house and I helped him a little bit how to speak iban and malay. Sister Siti and her family is very nice members of the church. She gave me a call and she said "I didn't know what to tell and dont know what to do." and I asked her "What happened sister maybe we can help you?". Her voice kin of want to cry and she said "My sibling already gone few hours ago and I want to ask you what can I do?". We asked president first how tohelp them. So, we back to home like almost 10pm but we visited her at 9.30pm because she  just gave us a call at 9pm. We tried to make her happy and I can see that sister Siti is very sad. I didn't see her smiling and her kidding. She just silent for like 20 minutes we been there. The next day we visited one of our PI and we talked a little bit about background and found out that they are apart of my family and that's way cool. I had one of my favorite kid. She is so cute and I love her so much! On Saturday we need to do all things very deligence because we had a goal to make a foundation of Bintulu work together. So we had 22 people coming to english class. Yahoo! Lord answered our prayer!

Last Sunday, we had fasting sunday. Sister Connie shared about her life and she said she had a sugery 10 years ago and now the agreement was expired few week ago and she feeling not well right now. She shared a testimony that if the lord's wants to take her back to heaven she ready for it but since He let me alive till today because maybe He has asked me to accomplish something that  missed. She didn't cry and she way strong and she said "My faith led me to know that heavely father's plan is real." She is awesome isn't it? Also, we met with awesome family. They are Terry's family and they dont really know about the gospel and I know that they a real intent to close to God. The end of that day was, I cooked fried chicken for ending my fasting.

P/S: I learned how to understand people. Understand people is so important because that will invite the spirit always accompany us. I know that this gospel is true. I live in it and I love it. 

See you again next week!Bye now!

Love,

Elder Gara.

Singapore Mission.