June 28, 2010. This is an awesome story Sister Beck read to us. You can use it in anything: FHE, Home Teaching, Visiting Teaching, talks, etc. It’s kind of the focus I’ve taken for my mission. I think we can apply it to all of our lives. Elder Mouritsen.
Author: Lynne Anne Rutter
The following event took place in a ward in Salt Lake City in 1974. It occurred during Sacrament meeting, and was told to me by a Regional Representative of the Twelve, who was in the meeting.
A young man, just before leaving on his mission, stood in Sacrament meeting and bore, in essence, the following testimony:
Brothers and Sisters, as you know, during the past few weeks I have been awaiting my mission call. During the time I was waiting I had a dream. I knew it was not an ordinary dream. I dreamed I was in the pre-existence and was awaiting my call to come to earth. I was filled with the same excitement and anticipation that I had before I received my mission call. In my dream, I was talking to a friend. He was a very dear friend and I felt a special closeness to him, even though I’ve never met him in this life.
As we talked, a messenger came and gave me a letter. I knew it was my call to go to earth. In great excitement, my friend and I opened the letter. I gave it to him and asked him to read it aloud. The letter said:
You have been called to earth in a special time, and to a special land. You will be born into the true Church, and you will have the priesthood of God in your home. You will be raised with many advantages and many blessings. You will be born in a land of plenty, a land of freedom. You will go to earth in the United States of America.
My friend and I rejoiced as we read my call. And while we rejoiced, the messenger returned. This time he had a letter for my friend. We knew it was his call to earth. My friend gave me the letter to read aloud. The letter said:
You have been called to go to earth in circumstances of poverty and strife. You will not be raised in the true Church. Many hardships will attend your life. Your land will be fraught with political and social difficulties which will hinder the work of the Lord. You will be born in Costa Rica.
We wept, my friend and I, as we read his call. And my friend looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, “when we are down on earth, you in your choice land and me in Costa Rica, my friend, come and find me.”
Then this young missionary, with tears in his own eyes, said, “Brothers and Sisters, I have received my mission call. I am going to Costa Rica.”
There is a sequel to this story. About a year after this Sacrament meeting, the Bishop of this ward received a letter from the missionary. The letter had one sheet of paper in it, and on that sheet, written in inch-high letters were four words:
“I FOUND MY FRIEND”
Author: Lynne Anne Rutter
The following event took place in a ward in Salt Lake City in 1974. It occurred during Sacrament meeting, and was told to me by a Regional Representative of the Twelve, who was in the meeting.
A young man, just before leaving on his mission, stood in Sacrament meeting and bore, in essence, the following testimony:
Brothers and Sisters, as you know, during the past few weeks I have been awaiting my mission call. During the time I was waiting I had a dream. I knew it was not an ordinary dream. I dreamed I was in the pre-existence and was awaiting my call to come to earth. I was filled with the same excitement and anticipation that I had before I received my mission call. In my dream, I was talking to a friend. He was a very dear friend and I felt a special closeness to him, even though I’ve never met him in this life.
As we talked, a messenger came and gave me a letter. I knew it was my call to go to earth. In great excitement, my friend and I opened the letter. I gave it to him and asked him to read it aloud. The letter said:
You have been called to earth in a special time, and to a special land. You will be born into the true Church, and you will have the priesthood of God in your home. You will be raised with many advantages and many blessings. You will be born in a land of plenty, a land of freedom. You will go to earth in the United States of America.
My friend and I rejoiced as we read my call. And while we rejoiced, the messenger returned. This time he had a letter for my friend. We knew it was his call to earth. My friend gave me the letter to read aloud. The letter said:
You have been called to go to earth in circumstances of poverty and strife. You will not be raised in the true Church. Many hardships will attend your life. Your land will be fraught with political and social difficulties which will hinder the work of the Lord. You will be born in Costa Rica.
We wept, my friend and I, as we read his call. And my friend looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, “when we are down on earth, you in your choice land and me in Costa Rica, my friend, come and find me.”
Then this young missionary, with tears in his own eyes, said, “Brothers and Sisters, I have received my mission call. I am going to Costa Rica.”
There is a sequel to this story. About a year after this Sacrament meeting, the Bishop of this ward received a letter from the missionary. The letter had one sheet of paper in it, and on that sheet, written in inch-high letters were four words:
“I FOUND MY FRIEND”
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