Mission Week 62, Sogamoso Week 15, "Miracles can't happen if you're not doing something about it!"

Everything is going good out here in good ole Colombia!

Our zone conference with President was really really good. He talked to all of us about FAITH. He started off the meeting by putting his scripture bag in the middle of the room and he said, " Move the bag to where I am with your FAITH." He was standing up at the pulpit. After about thirty seconds of nothing, one of the missionaries ran up and put the bag where President was standing. That hit me really hard. Faith is something so simple yet hard to obtain, it's called HARD WORK! You work really hard and get things done and have the hope necessary to know that God will bless your life as you are obedient to his commandments. Just WORK HARD! Miracles can't happen if you're not doing something about it! Most of the time you are the miracle in someone else's life! People always think that Gods going to wave his hand and make everything better as they have "faith" in him. That doesn't mean sit down and wait patiently for a miracle to pass by magically. If you want the situation to get better do everything you can on your part first! Then God will show you miracles.

Something else that Hit me during the Conference was how he explained Faith as working with conviction in the field. If you don't have a purpose for doing something, something that you know to be right or believe to be right, you're not going to have much success. In fact you're going to be wasting your time. I love Moroni 10:4 as he explains to us what we must do to obtain an answer from God. We must search diligently with a "Sincere Heart", and "True intentions", having "Faith in Jesus Christ" and your answers will come by the power of  the Holy Ghost. Those three things are not things that are obtained in the Blink of an eye. We have to SHOW our Father in Heaven that we are willing to ACT to receive a righteous answer to a righteous question that we really truly desire. I love to apply this to Missionary work. If you aren't ALL IN, if we're not willing to give it everything we've got searching for people with a Sincere heart, with real intentions, and having faith in Jesus Christ, we will not and cannot complete with our Purpose here as missionaries, just like we will not and cannot receive answers to our prayers if we're not willing to show God that we're willing to put a little effort in on our part. My invitation to all of those who are searching for answers/miracles in their lives would be to think. "Have I shown God the Faith necessary to receive such a Divine Answer/Miracle?"

I love you all and Hope that your Faith in Jesus Christ continues to Grow each and everyday. Remember that you can tell someone you love them and that's great, but it's better to show them that you love them!

Love, Elder Horton