The Restoration

   While I've been on my mission a lot of people have asked me this question, what is so different about your church? Why is it so important that you would leave everything back home and talk to random people for two years? Well those are great questions and the difference is that we clam that God has once again reached out in love and called a Prophet to lead and guide us in the latter days and established HIS church on the earth once again. The reason why I’m serving a mission is because I know that the things that I will share today are true and it brings me happiness and joy in live.

 

     While Christ was on the earth he established his church he ordained 12 men to be his Apostles the Bible tells us this in John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.  When Christ did this He gave these man the ability to act in his name and after he died they were still able to run his church HIS Way. But we all know that the people didn't accept Christ or the New things that he was teaching so that didn't help the apostle after Christ died and which lead to ALL the Apostles death. This left NO one in charge and wasn't able to act in God’s name or to run his church this is called an apostasy   or a turn away from the truth, and the apostles told us about this in the bible Amos 8: 11-12  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. Other places to find out more is Acts 20: 28- 31, 2Thessalonians 2: 2-3 and 2 Timothy 4:3-4

          For hundreds of years the people tried their best to teach and learn the truth of the gospel and to also to find salvation for their souls. In 1820 there was a young man who was seeking for the truth and wanted to find it. Joseph Smith Jr. is his name was worried for the welfare of his soul and started looking and going to different churches and while reading the Bible in James and read the first chapter fifth verse which says If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. So Joseph knowing that he lacked Wisdom decided to ask god which church was right to join. Joseph went to a grove of trees and prayed and Asked God and this in his own words what his answer was “I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. . . . “When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other— This is My Beloved Son.  Hear Him!” Jesus told Joseph not to join any of the churches, for “they were all wrong” and “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach or doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof” (Joseph Smith—History 1:19). 

     Joseph was called to be a prophet and to know that he is a really Prophet we must read and pray about the Book of Mormon which is the convincing power that God really did call him as a Prophet. Joseph was also visited by Peter, James and John who then conferred the same power and Right to act in God name this allowed Joseph to now restore the Church and was directed to organized it the way the savior wanted it. Just as Jesus Christ led His

Apostles through revelation after His Resurrection, He continues to direct the Church today through living prophets and apostles.   

        

      I know that these things are true I know that God the father and Jesus Christ Visited the Prophet Joseph smith and guided him to the Truth and now to day we are able to have the FULLNESS of the Gospel and to receive  all of God blessing that he has for us. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and it helps us just as the bible helps us come to Christ. i know that this Church is true and that it helps me get closer to MY Savior Jesus Christ

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