Truly, the blessings of the gospel is for every race, language, and people. The Church of Jesus Christ is a globalchurch. Jesus Christ is our leader…. Each of God’s children deserves the opportunity to hear and accept the healing, redeeming message of Jesus Christ. No other message is more vital to our happiness—now and forever. No other message is filled with hope. No other message can eliminate contention in our society.” President Russell M Nelson
We truly are a gospel for all of Gods children. Here in Indiana as I have said before one of my assignments is to order Missionary supplies. More and more requests are coming for different languages.
The office Elders have been busy teaching friends so the Sister sisters and I are sorting languages of books and pamphlets and organizing the supply room. We are making great progress in making it easier for missionaries to find what is available and what they need.
To help with the constant ins and outs of materials…
Elder Davis of course is writing a supply room program.🥰. The scanning in of materials is working, eventually Missionaries when taking something out will scan items. For now it is good old pen and paper. The program will help me immensely in the reorder needs!
With our ever growing pool of missionaries they can request Books of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ in record numbers and in several languages. We were down to 5 English when this shipment of 500 came in this week.
A couple weeks ago an Elder asked for a Book of Mormon in Urdu a language I had never heard of so, I looked it up, it is a Pakistan language. It came yesterday, what a beautiful script🩷
Did you know the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is printed in 115 languages. As we have sorted we have found books in Swahili, Haitian Creole, (our next biggest requests after English and Spanish) Tagalog, Portuguese, French, Ukrainian, Yoruba,Tahitian, MM Bengali, Danish, Telugu, Albanian, Chinese, Catalan, Russian, Italian, Hindi just to name a few😊
In Relief Society our Sunday women’s class had written on the board…”God is mindful of EVERY Soul.
This week 3 high school students walked into the mission office looking to talk to someone about religion. Elder Davis jumped at the chance
“We went into the church foyer and sat while they asked questions. They were on a school assignment to find out what was the difference between different religions. They were respectful and not there to combat. They asked genuine questions and it was good to visit with them. After sharing my testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith and of the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ we shook hands and I welcomed them to come back anytime. They said thank you and left.”
After church today, I popped into the mission office to check messages. There was 1 missed call. A woman here in Indiana has a friend in Kuwait that is interested in the church. She wanted to know how to get ahold of a ward there. I went to lds.org and under “Find a Church” looked up Kuwait and there are 11 congregations in that country. It was decided to work through the missionary referral program.
Whether it is Indiana or Kuwait all over the world, the spirit is touching hearts and leading many to seek truth.
Luke 24:32 “And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?”
“The scriptures are the touchstone for measuring correctness and truth, and they are clear that real happiness lies not in denying the justice of God or trying to circumvent the consequences of sin but in repentance and forgiveness through the atoning grace of the Son of God…
In the end, the central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ—faith that They exist; faith in the Father’s plan for our immortality and eternal life; faith in the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness; faith to make the gospel of Jesus Christ our way of life; and faith to come to know “the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom [He has] sent” (John 17:3). Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Alma 26: 37 Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen.
We too know God lives and loves all His children. Sending much love from Windy but Wonderful Indiana💗 You are in our prayers daily.
❣️Skittles❣️Elder Scott and Sister Kristy Davis
I loved seeing your stash of Books of Mormon! I have a question about your paragraph in which you said, “As we have sorted we have found books in … Haitian Creole, (our next biggest requests after English and Spanish) Tagalog….” After English and Spanish, which is your third most requested language: Haitian Creole of Tagalog? I try to read from El Libro de Mormon every day, even though I’m only a beginner in Spanish. Reading in a different language helps one slow down and think of the words in new ways.
Google Translate is a huge help. This technological progress is allowing us to cross barriers to bringing the gospel to all the world, further proof that the Lord loves all His Father’s children. It’s almost as though the confusion cast upon mankind at the Tower of Babel is being remedied in chiasmatic fashion to fulfill the prophecy that the gospel will be preached to all the world.