Surprisingly, a lot.
Last Wednesday found Elder Tapia and I giving aid to the young men from the Sidney Ward as they worked over a major service project in Kimball. Apparently, the Kimball Historical Society (didn't even know those things actually existed!) want to take the old high school building they have on the main road and turn it into a museum of Kimball in its glory days. So, what we were doing was helping them tear out the carpet they had in this one section of the building and sweep up all the dust and rubble they'd built up by tearing through one of the walls. The air was so thick with the dust that even to today I am still sneezing up dirt clods! However, it was still a really awesome experience, and they had so many cool things in there to look at, like an old printing press, an original type-writer, and even an old-style automatic calculator that was about as big and as heavy as a bowling ball. Looking at all of that made me very glad I live in the 21st century!
Thursday was also a really interesting day, as we got to travel to and from Sidney and Kimball twice, rather than the usual once. We went to Sidney because we had our District Meeting there, and we had a great time talking about how to implement our scriptures into our teaching. Afterwords, we had to book it back over to Kimball because we had called up the windshield-repair guy (yes, he still hadn't made it to our place to fix the window) and had managed to squeeze an appointment in for right after our District Meeting. We were just starting to roll into our driveway when we got a call. The guy was sick as a dog, and couldn't come to fix the window! So, we have to reschedule our appointment for later in the coming week. So, mildly annoyed, we drove off to Sidney, where we were having dinner with the Jones', and really just enjoyed the rest of the night by talking with the Jones' and sharing spiritual messages that we found very fun.
Friday was the real pinnacle moment of the week, however. At around 4:30, we got to meet with Brian McKay again, and talk over baptism with him. As you all probably already know, we have been trying to get him ready for baptism by March 14th. Well, after talking with him and seeing how he feels, we all agreed that he would be baptized on the 14th! It was great, and we were really excited. Afterwords, we decided to have a mock-up baptismal interview with him, just to make certain he understood everything correctly and was ready for the questions asked. Things went well, and I felt that he was all set and ready to go. However, when we mentioned his responses to our Zone Leaders, they seemed a bit hesitant. Finally, we found out that our Mission President, President Brown, would have to come an interview him, so we had to push the date back to the 21st. However, I have no doubts in my mind that it will go great, and that on March 21st, we will have a new member in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!
Well, that's my week! So, what do I have to talk about this week? The answer is simple--Scriptures.
Back before my mission, I used to watch this youtube channel that was basically a cyber nerd giving advice and counsel to other cyber nerds, and one time he did a video about what he called an "Existential Crisis", which was basically whenever he stopped and thought about such fun topics as; the inevitability of death, the crushing fact that all humans will ultimately end up alone, and the meaning of life. I remember watching these, and I couldn't help laughing. Not because he was funny in how he portrayed these problems (which he seriously was, by the way) but by how completely clueless and unaware that he was of the truth. His answer to these questions was that we as humans can never know the answer, and therefore shouldn't worry about it or about our lives. The truth, however, is not only that we know the answers to these questions, but these answers have been around since the time of Adam and Eve.
If one wants to learn about the answers to these questions, all they have to do is turn to the scriptures. The scriptures have always had the knowledge of these questions and more hidden within their pages. All the prophets, whether they were Adam, Enoch, Noah, or even our modern prophet Thomas S. Monson, have had these truths revealed to them, and they have preached and teached these truths to their brothers and sisters on the earth. So, if you find yourself questioning the worth of your soul, or wondering about the meaning of life and the universe, or just want to know what God has in store for you, my advice is simple. Read the Scriptures. Read them, for in them you will find the words of Christ, "for behold, the words of Christ will reveal the truth of all things unto you."
I bear my testimony that I know this to be true, that the Scriptures, whether they be The Old and New Testaments, The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, or even the words of the modern prophets will reveal the truth of God's knowledge unto us. We can know the truth of these things for ourselves, if we read the words, and look to our Heavenly Father for an answer. This I bear my testimony of, in the name of His Son, even our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
--Elder Z.S.Weber
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