Good morning family!
I love and appreciate you all so much! I wanted to send a note of my thankfulness to each of you. I spent the entirety of yesterday pondering on the messages I personally received during our Sacrament meeting. Thank you for the Spirit that each of you invited into yesterday's meeting. I learned with more surety that the Lord loves us and uses us as his instruments. I learned that preparation yields miracles and I learned that our youth and members are prepared for miracles. Next week we will have Fast and Testimony Meeting and I am looking forward to your testimonies with so much anticipation. Your testimony and faithfulness already astonishes me beyond measure (Helaman 3:25). I bear you my testimony that miracles are coming to our ward, through our diligence and faith. I've experienced that faith and witnessed the miracles already.
As we approach this week, I've been considering Helman 1:1 that mentions the difficulties that were suffered by the Nephites. I consider the difficulties that you have each had to endure over the past weeks, months, or years. I want you to know that you are in my prayers and I KNOW that you are in the prayers of the leaders in this ward as I've met with them frequently over the past couple of weeks. As you read through Come Follow Me this week, know that you are each a Nephi and a Lehi. Your faithfulness will make the Earth shake and the walls tremble.
I'll be out of town on Sunday but I look forward to feeling the Earth shake nonetheless. :) I am so excited to see how the Lord is going to be blessing our ward as we minister to each other, focus on the temple, build the Kingdom and "cry unto the voice of Him who [has] shaken the Earth". I know that we too will be "encircled about by a pillar of fire" and the walls of doubt/sin/anxiety/fear will shake before us. I can't thank you enough for helping me to shake those walls.
With so much love and adoration,
Always available for you,
Bishop Kienzle
