PEOPLE. PREPARED. TO. RECEIVE. THE. GOSPEL.

Hey!!

I hope you all had a good week!!

Well, this week has been really good. Today we are in another city about an hour from Santo Amaro.  We are visiting my companion's old area. This week went really fast for me. We were able to find and teach a lot of our investigators this week. We are teaching this guy named Marcos.

And he was already prepared to hear the gospel before we even started teaching him. We have been praying to put people in our path that are prepared to receive the gospel. And I am seeing a difference in our work. We are finding a lot of people that are prepared and needing the gospel in their lives.

I sure am grateful for prayer and I know that Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers. I hope you all are doing well. Talk to you guys later.

Love,

Elder Nickerson

 

 

Harold B Lee said this,

 

“If you want the blessing, don't just kneel down and pray about it. Prepare yourselves in every conceivable way you can in order to make yourselves worthy to receive the blessing you seek. Brigham Young illustrated this when he said: 'You may go to some people here, and ask what ails them, and they answer, 'I don't know but we feel a dreadful distress in the stomach and in the back; we feel all out of order, and we wish you to lay hands on us.' He said to these people, 'Have you used any remedies?' meaning herbs or whatever the pioneers had. 'No,' they said, 'we wish the Elders to lay hands upon us, and we have faith that we shall be healed.' President Young said: 'That is very inconsistent according to my faith. If we are sick, and ask the Lord to heal us, and to do all for us that is necessary to be done, according to my understanding of the Gospel of salvation, I might as well ask the Lord to cause my wheat and corn to grow without my plowing the ground and casting in the seed. It appears consistent to me to apply every remedy that comes within the range of my knowledge, and then ask my Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ, to sanctify that application to the healing of my body...But supposing we were traveling in the mountains, and all we had or could get, in the shape of nourishment, was a little venison, and one or two were taken sick, without anything in the world in the shape of healing medicine within our reach, what should we do? According to my faith, ask the Lord Almighty to send an angel to heal the sick. This is our privilege...' (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 163) When we are situated that we cannot get anything to help ourselves, then we may call upon the Lord and His servants who can do all. But it is our duty to do what we can within our own power.”