We were at a family's house watching the restoration DVD and their son (who is in kindergarten) was sitting right next to me.
It began to portray Joseph Smith seeking out answers to his questions in the Bible.
And then, making that decision that changed the world, knelt down in a grove of trees and asked his Heavenly Father what his soul pondered.
Their son turned to me and asked if the movie was non-fiction.
With a smile I told him that everything that was on the movie actually happened.
It truly was Non-Fiction!
How do I know this?
How do I know that as Joseph Smith knelt down in the grove of trees that he really did have his prayer answered by God and his son Jesus Christ
That They actually appeared to him in flesh and bone and spoke to him?
That he really was called as a prophet of God to restore Christ's true church on the earth once again?
Because I have knelt down and asked God myself.
As missionaries we don't want people to just listen to us and call it good,
No!
We want you to question it! We want you to honestly seek for the truth!
We want you to find out the same way we did, on your knees.
Talk to missionaries! Listen to what they teach!
But don't just leave it at that,
Get down on your knees and ask God, and listen to what your Heavenly Father teaches you through the Holy Ghost.
That is what we invite people to do, seek for themselves and ask the center of all truth, your Heavenly Father.
Imagine if this really was true,
It means that God speaks to his children today through a living Prophet
It means there is one true church on this earth
It means that the Priesthood power that Christ ordained his apostles with is once again found among members of his church on the earth today.
What we claim is miraculous.
How we ask you to find out is miraculous.
You Heavenly Father will answer your prayer.
Diligently seek and ask.
I say all of these things in the name of Him whose church is found once again on this earth, Jesus Christ, Amen.
It began to portray Joseph Smith seeking out answers to his questions in the Bible.
And then, making that decision that changed the world, knelt down in a grove of trees and asked his Heavenly Father what his soul pondered.
Their son turned to me and asked if the movie was non-fiction.
With a smile I told him that everything that was on the movie actually happened.
It truly was Non-Fiction!
How do I know this?
How do I know that as Joseph Smith knelt down in the grove of trees that he really did have his prayer answered by God and his son Jesus Christ
That They actually appeared to him in flesh and bone and spoke to him?
That he really was called as a prophet of God to restore Christ's true church on the earth once again?
Because I have knelt down and asked God myself.
As missionaries we don't want people to just listen to us and call it good,
No!
We want you to question it! We want you to honestly seek for the truth!
We want you to find out the same way we did, on your knees.
Talk to missionaries! Listen to what they teach!
But don't just leave it at that,
Get down on your knees and ask God, and listen to what your Heavenly Father teaches you through the Holy Ghost.
That is what we invite people to do, seek for themselves and ask the center of all truth, your Heavenly Father.
Imagine if this really was true,
It means that God speaks to his children today through a living Prophet
It means there is one true church on this earth
It means that the Priesthood power that Christ ordained his apostles with is once again found among members of his church on the earth today.
What we claim is miraculous.
How we ask you to find out is miraculous.
You Heavenly Father will answer your prayer.
Diligently seek and ask.
I say all of these things in the name of Him whose church is found once again on this earth, Jesus Christ, Amen.
