Learning to walk with Him

This was a week of miracles, and I would like to share why.

Let me first explain a little piece of the glorious Atonement of my Lord Jesus Christ. After suffering all the sins of the human race, in the Garden of Gethsemane, where the very God of all the world suffered such a burden that it caused Him to beg to His Father to let it pass from Him, such suffering that caused blood to pour from every pore of His body. After passing this infinite atonement, Judas came to betray Him into the hands of the Romans and Sanhedrin, where Peter, in fierce loyalty, tried to defend the Lord, yet Christ knowing what he must do detained Peter. Peter had cut the ear off a solider, Christ healed that mans ear. One of the very men that would later be the means of His death, yet He heals him, considering how insignificant that ear may have been in relation to what Christ had just completed and what he yet lacked to do, He healed his ear.

I have learned that when we do as what the premortal Savior invited Enoch to do to "walk with me" or as President Eyring said, "to serve as he did", we begin to be the beneficiaries of the blessings of the Atonement. When we act in a perfect faith in accordance with the principles of God, we begin to be prepared by the Atonement of Christ to achieve our divine potential.

I have learned this principle by personal experience on the mission. 

Here in Leon we found a mother whose young son just got out of the hospital after several months of intense surgeries and therapies in order to cure a brain tumor. This poor mother sits over her son for hours on end, keeping a challenging and rigorous schedule of medications for her son. While her older son works several jobs to keep them alive on rice and beans living in a single room, tin shack with dirt floors and holes in the walls. 

You could say that the visits, prayers and blessings me and my companion have been making are blessing their lives, and they are. But in the end I am the one who is blessed by those visits, prayers and blessings.

Elder Renlund when he visited the mission said that as missionaries we are messengers of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, the very authority that we have been given is after His order. However...

I feel like the Nicaraguan mailmen, somehow I seem to be benefiting more by the message I bring than the people who I go to deliver to. 

Seeing that mother hanging on to all the faith she has, hovering over her young son in critical condition, touched me to my very soul.Thus is the Lord Jesus Christ hovering over us, blessing us, sustaining us, asking for nothing in return, just that we get better. That we use the glorious gift and power of His Atonement.

I love the mission, and I am grateful to be a part of this marvelous work and wonder.

Love you all very much, 

Love Elder Morrison

(sorry for the lack of pics as of late, the internet cafe here uses computers from 1988, so such thing as USB ports don't exist or don't work)