The mission received a visit from Elder David A. Bednar this week. We had the privilege to go and hear him. My mission has been visited a lot haha. Super big blessings from that! One thing that I absolutely loved that is going to help me for the rest of my life is the lesson between Agents and Objects. God Gave each and everyone of us our Agency. What exactly does that mean? Well the basic Book answer would usually be the ability to choose. Elder Bednar gave us a different definition. He said that it's the ability to act and not be acted upon. On Object can't do what Agents can. An object would be for example a Hymn book. He taught me an important lesson about how we all sometimes act as Objects in our lives. An Object is something that always waits for an Agent to act upon it. We in our lives act as Objects when we pray, study, go throughout the day. Have you ever found yourself praying and asking God for example, God, please help this family come to church on Sunday, or please bless me with patience, help my friend to feel the love of God in his life. These are all examples of people who pray as objects. Now the real questions are, What are you going to do to help get that family to church on Sunday, what are you going to do to develop more patience, what are you going to do to help your friend feel of God's love in his/her life? We need to show our Heavenly Father through our Faith in Jesus Christ (our works) that we are ready to act and get things done. DO NOT be an Object that waits for things to happen and just magically pass by. After all that is the plan of the Adversary. He never wanted us to be able to exercise our Agency. I loved how he used that analogy. Be AGENTS. It's the only way that we`'l progress in this life. Choose to get things done rather to wait for things to happen out of thin air. I know that Faith without works is dead.
I Pray we can all see the ways that we are being Objects and start to be Agents! Love you all!!
Elder Horton
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