We had an amazing Zone Conference last week.! Elder Cornish of the Seventy came to speak to us. He is really awesome! He taught us a lot, but the main thing he focused on was the language of the spirit. He emphasized that it is indeed a foreign language that we are learning here, and it isn't Vincentian! lol. It is the language of the Spirit and our eternal salvation depends on our learning it. He said that it is just as difficult as any other language to learn, and one thing that makes it most difficult is that most people don't acknowledge it as a language at all. He gave some great suggestions about how to learn to recognize the spirit in our lives. He said that most of the time we need to first rely on trial and error until we get the feel for how the spirit works within us personally. As we act on the promptings that we get, we can tell by how things work out whether it was the spirit prompting us or not. We can then compare the feelings we get and learn to tell the spirit apart from our own thoughts. It is up to us to figure out how the spirit speaks to us, no one else can tell us. He compared it to trying to tell someone how salt tastes; it can't be done. In order for someone to know what it tastes like, they need to taste it for themselves. Just the same, no one can tell us how the spirit "tastes" to us. We need to experiment on it and "taste" it for ourselves.
He went on to talk about how the spirit is a person. Even though his body is one of spirit and not of flesh, he has feelings and can be offended. When we are not righteous, we lose our claim to divine guidance and help. If you offend the spirit, the heavens withdraw themselves; the administering angels leave. He concluded by saying that we should trust our common sense. The Spirit will never tell us to do something that goes against common sense, mission rules, or the church standards. He called it a Jacob 6:12 violation when a missionary just does something plain stupid! lol. "Oh be wise; what can I say more!" Lol!
Well, that was just a piece of what I learned. It was a great, but tiring day! I don't know how Elder Cornish and the others who presented with him managed to go do it again on another island the next morning and then again somewhere else after that! But it was so great to be fed spiritually!
Tell everyone "hi" for me, and know that I love you all!
Love,
Sister Bratt
yellow watermelon, pretty and sweet
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