Desire

Hello everyone! Happy March/ month of the Irish. Hope things
are starting to warm up where you are and that spring is starting to
bloom. Well, last week was a really good week. As always we see
miracles everyday. I can't even begin to write all of the things that
happen here, I guess that's why I keep a daily journal, something I've
been trying to improve on writting in. So, Thursday and Friday I had
the opportunity to go up to Omaha for a two day leadership training.
It was amazing. By the time the two days were over I was exhausted by
the Spirit that I had felt as the leaders of our mission trained us on
how we can be better missionaries and leaders in the mission.
President and Sister Kunz were amazing as well. I don't know if I say
this enough in my letters but President and Sister Kunz are two of the
most amazing, loving, Christ-like people I know and I cherish any time
that I get to spend with them. It will be really sad to see them
leave at the end of June. On Thursday night they sent us out after
the meeting to do some work. Our Zone Leader and fellow Knight
challenged us to skip dinner so that we could find someone to set for
baptism. Well, I went out with another district leader named Elder
Stauffer who was actually in my ward at Utah St. The first door we
knocked that people were home was a family, so we taught them the
first lesson, and asked them to be baptized on April 14. They said
yes, and it was a great faith building experience for us. Saturday
night we took our Elder's quorum president out to teach a hispanic
family we found through some members. They are the best family, and
although I couldn't understand much as he taught the lesson, I felt
the Spirit very strong, and I knew that they were feeling it as well.
We were also able to find two new family to teach, very humble people
that are ready and willing to learn, so that was a huge blessing as
well. Even though we weren't in our area for two days, the Lord
blessed us with much success.
So Spiritual thought of the week actually comes from a
training that a ward mission leader from Omaha gave. In it he talked
about desires. Basically the message is that whatever we desire, as
long as it is good, and we are worthy the Lord will grant unto us.
There are a few instances where things are not in line with His will,
but as long as the desire is good and it doesn't infringe on others
agency, He will grant it unto us. We started talking about this with
baptisms and he said something really important, that as a missionary
we don't have a predetermined number of baptisms we can get on our
mission. It is up to us to desire those things, and then to do
everything in our power to go about doing good, and find those who are
ready to be baptized. Bruce R. McConkie said, (paraphrasing) "By far
Latter-day Saints are elligable for far more blessings than they
receive becuase they don't have the desire to receive them." Think
about the three Nephites. There desire was to live until the second
coming so that they could preach the Gospel to all the earth. They
didn't even know they could have that desire, but Christ perceived
their thoughts, and granted unto them what they desired. Martin
Harris desired to be a witness to the plates, and because he desired
it, it was granted unto him. So what do we desire. The Lord will
grant unto us according to our desires as long as we are doing our
part. (Alma 29:4) So, let us ponder what our desires our, and really
with all the energy of our heart, be worthy of and desire miracles to
happen in our lives as we strive with President Monson to go about
doing good. I love you all and my greatest desire is that you are all
happy and well in living the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Godspeed,
Elder Chandler Kendall