MTC - Day 11

Hello Everyone,

Provo MTC

I had the most amazing spiritual experience on Friday (July 25)!  We are teaching a man named Christian as a district. We had our first lesson on Thursday and another on Friday. He has a really hard time believing that we have a loving Heavenly Father. He lost his son a year ago and had another experience where he was in Egypt and the hospital he was at got attacked. A grenade set off an oxygen tank and burnt and scarred the left side of his torso. A fragment from the tank hit his friend in the chest. He watched his friend offer the most sincere prayer he had ever heard and then die.  Just listening to him tell us his stories made me and the rest of our district love him. My heart really went out to him because as he spoke you could almost feel his pain. During our lesson on Friday we all shared heart wrenching stories and the love I felt toward each member of my district grew.  Several Elders and I all shared very painful, personal stories that really touched Christian. At the end of the lesson I testified of how if we let Christ take away our pain and our anger he will, and he will bring us joy and peace.  The way the spirit testified to me and through me during that whole lesson was indescribable. My heart physically feels different. I feel very humbled and fortunate to have lived the life I have.  I truly know the love and power of the atonement and know that if we exercise faith in him knowing he will bless us in return, he will raise us too far better than we could ever be on our own.

Love,
Elder Drake Harper