August 27, 2018

Apostolic Blessing

This week we were blessed with the visit of Elder Rasband in our mission. It really was one to remember. Our whole mission has really come together and come alive even more. He told us he was leaving an apostolic blessing on our mission and the people here to awaken the house of Israel and help us Gather it and let me tell you that those priesthood keys are real and the blessing was felt immediately by all. Missionaries in my zone that were sleeping through their time have woken up and we are finding people more and more. 

One of my favorite things about the conference was actually something his wife said. "How deep is the smile in your heart?"  This is a gospel of joy and we are called to hold up His Light to the world (3 Nephi 18:24) In fact we are called to BE that Light (Mathew 5:14-16). That Light is the Light of Christ and we need to have that part of His image in our countenance. (Alma 5:14). That is how we are going to help people come unto Him and receive the blessings and ordinances of the Gospel. 

Among other things we talked lots about following the First Impressions of the Holy Ghost and we based lots off his conference talk "By Divine Design."

It was definitely one for the books. The Lord is hastening His work and we are all called to Gather Israel. I´m here doing it on this side of the veil with literally everything I have so you guys could all do some of the work on this side of the veil or the other side. I know you´ll be blessed for it. 

Love you all lots,

Elder Nixon

Here's some fotos from the week. One is my and my MTC roommates reunited in the mission conference we had. I even got to go on splits with one on Friday so that was pretty special. One pic is from a lunch we had with a Peruvian sister in the ward and the last pic is some kids of a recent convert and the foosball we played together!