The interview was Tuesday; I went to the temple on Thursday.
I’d prayed for weeks but hadn’t received a definite answer. Today I would not only seek an answer, but I had every intention to find one.
Around 2, after all my classes, I went to the temple with Natalie and Janiece. I love the Rexburg Temple. It’s always full; people sitting in the chapel slowly moving up in line for the chance to be Saviors on Mount Zion. I love sitting and having that time in the temple to ponder; the peace I receive there is far beyond what I could feel in any other setting.
Usually while I sit in the chapel I pull out my scriptures and begin to read. Today was no exception. I started out with a prayer and asked, yet again, to know if serving a formal mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was the mission my Heavenly Father wished me to serve. I opened my scriptures to where I’d left off the day before and began to read. Not a minute passed and I’d received the answer to my prayers.
Mosiah 3:4, “For the Lord hath heard thy prayers, and hath judged of thy righteousness, and hath sent me to declare unto thee that thou mayest rejoice; and that thou mayest declare unto they people, that they may also be filled with joy.”
Never before had I received such a straight forward answer through the scriptures. Every word of that scripture applied directly to me.
I know the scriptures, including the Book of Mormon, are the word of God. I know that through them my Father spoke, and continues to speak, to answer my prayers, to calm, comfort, lead and direct me. The Savior lives and He stands at the head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leading and directing His people today. He answered my prayers and I will go forward and do what I know to be His will. I can think of no greater happiness than that which comes through spreading the great Word of God. I can think of no greater joy than helping His children know of His gospel and seeing their lives become abundant with happiness; more happiness than they have ever known.
I'd found my answer: This gospel is true, it is real. I know it is, and I will spend the rest of my life declaring it.
I went back to the bishop the next week and let him know what I'd decided. He had everything ready for me to begin working on my papers.
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I found a Wonderful site on Isaiah!
http://www.isaiahexplained.com/
The site has free lessons on every chapter.
Very well done and in the author’s own voice.
Every Isaiah Chapter has the Analytical Commentary of Isaiah. Enjoy this personable verse-by-verse commentary of Isaiah by well-known Hebrew scholar Avraham Gileadi.
“Dr. Gileadi is the only LDS scholar I know of who is thoroughly competent to teach the words of Isaiah”—Professor Hugh Nibley, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. (1. 6. 2003)
“It is my testimony that this man has been brought forward and trained at this time to help those inside the Church into Isaiah, and those outside the Church, Jew and Gentile, through Isaiah into the Church” —Arthur Henry King, author, former BYU professor and London
Temple President.
“Dr. Gileadi has achieved a major breakthrough in the investigation of a book of such complexity and importance as the Book of Isaiah”—Professor David Noel Freedman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“Dr. Gileadi’s work will render obsolete almost all the speculations of Isaiah scholars over the last one hundred years . . . enabling scholarship to proceed along an entirely new line . . . opening new avenues of approach for others to follow”—Professor Roland K. Harrison, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada.
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“Isaiah Decoded is a huge breakthrough for the seeker of truth—Jew, Christian, Moslem, and agnostic. From an ancient writing, Gileadi has brought to light eternal truths about the nature of God and our relationship to him that have lain buried for centuries in the dust of time”—Guy Wins, fifth-generation Jewish diamond dealer from Antwerp, Belgium.
“Gileadi is the only scholar I know who has been able to express the Jewish expectation of the Messiah in relation to the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth”—Daniel Rona, Israeli tour guide, Jerusalem, Israel.
“Dr. Gileadi has clearly demonstrated his mastery of the Book of Isaiah and of the scholarly literature dealing with it”—Professor Ronald Youngblood, Bethel Theological Seminary, San Diego, California.
“Avraham Gileadi’s books and tapes take the casual observer of Isaiah’s words and transform him into an enlightened and lifelong student of the Word of God”—Allan and Nancy Pratt, LDS mission president, Toulouse, France.
“Dr. Gileadi has awakened a whole new depth of my understanding of Isaiah’s prophetic message. His books and tapes illuminate the urgent relevance of Isaiah’s writings to our own day”—Becky Douglas, supervisor and sponsor of three orphanages in India, Atlanta, Georgia.
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“Gileadi has uncovered an amazing message written in a divine code by the prophet–poet Isaiah. This will give comfort, hope, and joy to masses of people as they cope with the perplexing events now unfolding before their eyes”—Fenton Tobler, thirty years elementary school principle, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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