So currently we are teaching a 16 year old boy and he told us Saturday night when we were meeting with him that he wasn't going to be able to go to church the next day because his grandpa was having his 60th birthday party.... we were bummed for about ten seconds until we remembered that this week was stake conference. Meaning that there was a meeting at 8:30 that night (about an hour after we met with Ignacio) so we wishfully invited him to that meeting with us. And for some reason (probably the spirit working within him) he said "yea, I'm not doing anything else" and so he came with us that night to what turned out to be a priesthood leadership training session of the conference.... oh man. To set the scene a little bit: The first speaking was an older gentleman, who spoke in a low hushed voice for half-an-hour. That threw the two hour meeting off track. The three songs we sang were slow and quiet, and the meeting seemed to drag on forever. With topics such as home teaching and quorum presidencies my companion and I were having trouble staying awake and we were just hoping that Ingacio would still have a desire to meet with us after a meeting like this. Well let me testify that God does indeed work in mysterious ways because after this meeting which had bored two full time missionaries who have been members of the church all there lives, had done the complete opposite to our investigator. At the end of the meeting he told his friend (a youth we have been working with) that he wants to get baptized.... WHAT!!!!!! I know that he understood very little about what was said, but I also know that he felt something, he felt that this is the truth, and that he needs to follow it.
We are told in the scriptures to seek and we shall find, to ask and we shall receive, to knock and it shall be opened unto us. Well we are also admonished to "seek out of the best" things not just anything. For example last night we were at a new converts house teaching his sister, my companion and I were both really hungry and the Brother must have sensed it because he brought us some bread with cheese. I looked at it and ate it right up seeking to fill my stomach. My companion on the other hand searched the food that had been given him and found that some of the cheese was a "little old" aka really moldy. So he broke off the moldy part and ate the rest which was still good. In this example my companion sought to fill his hunger with the "best" part, while I just sought to "get filled" Well I am now paying the consequences of my actions and cannot stray too far from a bathroom. But to bring it back around, Brothers, sisters, friends, and family, we must not just seek to fill ourselves, but rather seek to fill ourselves with things which are best. I testify that if we just seek to be filled, we will be filled, but not with desirable things and we will certainly pay the consequences later either on a toilet or more importantly in the eternities. So seek for the things which are best, search out the things which will fill you and keep you filled. Jesus Christ declared that he is the living waters, the bread of life and whosoever will come unto him shall drink and partake and shall never again thirst of hunger. Follow his admonition to "Come" he is waiting his arms are stretched out still.
I love each of you.
Elder Hutchins
(Stay away from moldy cheese)
