The Family

This week we had the opportunity to meet with multiple families and teach them how the restored truths of the gospel bless, strengthen, and bind families together in love and unity. Last night was really great because we met with a couple and discussed the Restoration while their 17-year-old daughter was on a trip out of country. They expressed concern for her safety and development as well as their desire to find God and his real truth. And it was amazing to see how simply testifying to them that God has blessed us with living prophets and apostles of God today on the Earth and that they together can come to find out the truthfulness of this Restoration of all things by reading the history and interaction with God of 1 family and their posterity from The Book of Mormon. They said they would start reading together that night. :)

I can't really explain how much I have truly learned about the family we came from, why we are here with a family on Earth and what we are supposed to do and the family we all have a chance to live with after this life. God truly is perfect and created a perfect plan for his children, He spoke to all of us and revealed a giant part of that plan and it's purpose in A proclamation given by his Prophet on Earth at the time, Gordon B. Hinckley in 1995. It is called The Family: A Proclamation to the World. I encourage you all to read it tonight in your free time with the whole family or family Home evenings and discuss the importance and divinity of it. I testify that those words and that Statement of Truth is directly from the mouth of our Loving Heavenly Father. Ask him about it and he will confirm it to you personally. You will feel it from feelings of  "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,  meekness, temperance" (Galatians 5:22,23) for by this spirit and "by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."(moroni 10:5)  I promise that is true :)
Elder Wood

Pictures compliments of the Pawlik family in Mielec, Poland :)
Starszy Wood's new companion, Starszy Hansen
My 11 year old daughter Brooklynn said that one of her friends is a cousin of Starszy Hansen!