From Our Point of View

We walk the streets everyday, we wear bright white shirts, ties, we're blatantly American, and we stop everyone we see with the intention to convince them that God not only exists, but that He loves us, He has a plan for us, and that we the can know too.

To say the least, we are hard to miss. To many of the people here in Spain, we are completely crazy.

From our point of view, we see a lot a lot of people, scared. Ja,ja yes of us on occasion, but more than that. I see everyday, Children of God, running from place to place, on train, bike, foot, in a desperate attempt to keep a hold of a job, family, home. They frantically scramble with the hopes of squeezing out every bit of satisfaction they are allowed in this short life.

I feel sometimes for them, and just want to ask, call out, "Where are you going? Why?" I feel like I've spoken about this before, but its the same everywhere! Questions that cannot be successfully answered by a simple Google search today are now thrown behind us, as we seek to get in the center of attention. I feel like a man trying to yell, drag, do all possible to pull people from their zombie like march towards the spacious building and the cliff that waits for them there.

Friends and Family, this life is going to end.

If this is news for you, and like those of which I speak seek to, forget that as quickly as possible, I would plead with you before you go, just hear me out.

We need not to let that make us fear, the unknown does not need to be left that way.

In the Book of Mormon, another certain group of youth had to face the same certain doom. The sons of Mosiah were about to head into what they very well knew would be certain death. The lamanites were mean, angry people, they would hurt, torture, and quite possibly kill them.

Alma 17:

9 And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct.

10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And THEY WERE COMFORTED.

12 And it came to pass that the hearts of the sons of Mosiah, and also those who were with them, took courage to go forth unto the Lamanites to declare unto them the word of God.

We can find peace.

But more than that I would like to remind each of you that you are a child of a loving Heavenly Father. If we can remember that. We will be ok.

Alma and his people faced similar fate:

27 But Alma went forth and stood among them, and exhorted them that they should not be frightened, but that they should remember the Lord their God and he would deliver them.

Remember who you are, know that you will live again.

Cry unto the Lord and learn this for yourself. I love you all.

Elder Gardner