You Get What You Go For! Go For More!
Dear Elders and Sisters:
Sister Clark and I feel so blessed to have been with you
this past week in our Zone Conference.
We are so appreciative of the wonderful teachings and instruction
provided and we offer our thanks to the Assistants and Fresno North Zone
Leaders for their preparation and insightful teachings. We trust you could feel the convincing theme
of desiring and seeking for "More".
I think the Assistants did an especially great job of teaching
this. I also think the last several Zone
Conferences and Specialized Trainings have been setting this up. I offer a few insights from my inventory of
insights gained.
Repenting and changing bestows an endowment of great
power, and we do need an endowment of power to be able to do this great
work. Repenting on an ongoing basis is
the Lord's divine design to help us arrive home clean, pure, and worthy to be
in His presence - in other words, Celestially prepared.
We are doing a great work and must not come down. We must be very careful not to come down in
any way but rather to go up to higher ground.
Gossip, rumors, idle talk, and a lack of focus, diligence and obedience
are forms of self-administered "poison by degrees" and must be
eliminated.
Accessing and harnessing the enabling powers of the
Atonement allows us to do and be far more than we can on our own. This work requires we "Rise Up" to
a higher call and "Go and Do" that which is very, very hard - and
this can only be accomplished with "Heaven's Help" through His
Atonement. Accessing the enabling powers
of the Atonement is not the absence of a load or burden to carry but the
"traction" we obtain to carry such loads and burdens. Doing so helps
us build a stronger, Christ-like character.
Failing to plan is planning to fail. It is the universal week point in most of us
and we have been blessed with great insights from the Apostles and Prophets
helping us do this in great faith to be able to accomplish HIs will and HIs
work His way. Set goals and make plans
is a divine order and requires great faith.
Exercising faith and living true principles builds character.
The Atonement offers the blessing of repentance and the
ordinances, all designed to change us and prepare us to live with God. The Savior's mercy allows us to live in His
and the Father's presence again..."after all we can do" (repent and
make and keep sacred covenants through the Atonement). As Lehi said: "Wherefore, how great the
importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the
earth..." This is your message and
without you, they won't have access to the Atonement.
More is there for the taking. We just need to set our sights higher, much
higher and achieve more. I know of an account from President Packer's life when
he was serving as a Mission President.
They needed a real estate attorney for a complex land deal the Church
was doing. He gathered his missionaries
together and told them to go find and baptize a real estate attorney. He told them; "You will get what you go
for!" About a month later two of
his Elders called and asked; "What are you doing on Saturday night,
President?". He answered;
"Why?" They told him they were
baptizing a real estate attorney. You do
get what you go for!
On my mission, our Mission President was constantly
telling us we needed to find the family with the father who could serve as a
Branch President and Bishop. That's what
we went for - families and we baptized a lot of families. I am with President Packer and truly believe
you get what you go for! And there is so much More for us to get! Let's go for it! Let's Go For More!!
With much love and appreciation for all you are doing,
President Clark
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