I wanted to put it all on the altar of sacrifice. The stakes are high in the battle for salvation, and as a soldier on the front lines, I gained an unwavering testimony that as long as I trusted Him, my sword and armor would never fail, and I would bring souls unto Him.ĭoctrine and Covenants 4:2 “Therefore, o ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.”Īll my heart, might, mind and strength. I was on His errand, caring for His children. One thing I always had confidence in after the MTC was that the Lord was never going to fail me.
BECOME A CONSECRATED MISSION TAD R CALLISTER HOW TO
I learned how to say “Not my will, but thine be done.” While in the MTC, I saw many of my weaknesses, but learned to turn it over to the Lord. Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are the greatest mentors anyone could have. But there is someone, and it’s not us, who knows exactly what we need to gain eternal happiness, and has the power to make us greater than we are. There is a belief in the world centered on each individual going after their own needs. By doing this, by putting our whole souls in the Lord’s hands, we allow Him to change us. I want to be a consecrated missionary.” Elder Callister teaches that a consecrated missionary is one who lays everything on the altar of sacrifice, who holds nothing back. But I remember reading it and thinking “I don’t want to be a mediocre missionary, or a good missionary. I read this talk so many times on my mission, and each time learned something new, and so it’s hard for me to remember which specific parts impacted me most during my time in the MTC. The talk was “A Consecrated Missionary,” given by Tad R Callister in the MTC on October 7, 2008. I learned how to pray SINCERELY.īut perhaps the most significant thing I learned in the MTC was who the Lord wanted me to be, and it came from an email I received from my uncle and the attached talk. I learned how to set goals and achieve them. I gained a basis of how to teach each of the Gospel topics-and study them-that I carried with me throughout my mission. My testimony of the Book of Mormon and the prophet Joseph Smith was strengthened.
I learned a lot about my calling as a missionary, and gained confidence in knowing who had sent me and what I was to do. I learned a lot about communicating with love with a companion. In the MTC I learned how the Lord can strengthen us and heal us physically. Whether it’s the Gospel, a language, or physics, the principles are the same, and we learn all truth through the Spirit. My spiritual learning in the MTC was no less than my language learning in the MTC.
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