Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Week 4, Columbia Bogota MTC "Touched by the Scriptures"

Hola Mundo! This week has again been full of feelings from the Spirit. In my personal study I focus really hard on each chapter of the Book of Mormon. Right now I'm in Mosiah studying and i wanna share with you how much I've learned just from a few short chapters. Mosiah 4: 16-26 talks about how we are to serve our fellow man. Whenever you see someone in need PLEASE stop to help them in anyway you can! The Lord sent us here to love and help one another. In Mosiah 6:16-17 it speaks of "seers" These guys are like prophets but they can see the future and things of the past! ONE more that I want to share that completely gave me chills when I read it was in Mosiah 13:3 when Abinadi is preaching to King Noah and the priests, Abinadi says "TOUCH ME NOT, FOR GOD SHALL SMITE YOU IF YE LAY YOUR HANDS UPON ME" That just made me go oh shoot. I sat there and imagined King Noah and the priests when they were trying to lay their hands on Abinadi and all the sudden he speaks those words. They were probably cowering and like oh-oh-uh- please don't hurt me. Haha! The power of the Lord amazes me!

Another great experience I had was we learned a lot about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. In Luke 22:41-44 Christ is in the Garden Of Gethsemane about to take on the sins of the world. He kneels down to the father in Humble prayer and says "Father, if thou be willing remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." NOW go to Mark 14:36 and you will see that it is in the same scenario BUT Jesus says "Abba" which is a meaning in Hebrew of being super close to someone, and in this context it means Dad. This made my eyes full of tears. Jesus Christ was asking his Dad, Heavenly father, if there was another way. Please think about that for a minute. Remember Jesus Christ is literally Heavenly Fathers son. NOW go back to Luke 22, and read verse 43. As Jesus is taking upon him the sins of the world an angel appears unto him to comfort him. That angel is Micheal (Adam). The same man that helped Jesus Christ create the world that we live in. Heavenly Father saw how much pain his son was going through and sent him his best friend to comfort him. Just to let you know how much pain Christ actually went through think about this, if a normal man suffered enough pain to make him bleed from just ONE single pore he would die from the excruciating pain. Now think about bleeding from every pore. That's how much pain he went through for us. I love my savior so much, and I am forever in debt to him for the love he has shown me. I hope that you would feel the same. The last scripture I want you guys to read is Hebrews 6:4-6, think about this and ponder it. Please do everything in your power to Hold fast to the iron rod, keep the commandments, study and ponder the scriptures (which is also a commandment) and Repent!!! and come unto Christ.

I love you all and I'm praying for you always!

Love, Elder Horton

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