Jordan sent this to Deb and I today. It is pretty funny, but also
says that he would love to receive letters from home. Those that
have served a mission know what letters mean. So click on the
attachment and open it up.
This section 139 of the D & C, at least the missionary
version. It is pretty funny.!
This is Jordan's last Christmas, so if you can, drop him a letter or
email
Have a great Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Mark
Enjoy this, haha. I just translated it. :)
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ELDER CHRISTENSEN
Secretario Financiero
Misión Perú Cuzco
(51) 984-503-861
(51) 084-242-521
RPM #623574
SECTION 139
Revelation given through the Elders of Israel to
the Saints of the Ward and various friendships. While they were
scattered preaching the Everlasting Gospel in the remotest regions of
Perú, they found a number of vessels, in them containing various papyri
of unknown origin. They were brought to Elder Christensen to be the
translated, the following was obtained.
1-11 Family and
friends are encouraged to be more diligent in correspondence to their
Elders en the mission field;
12-17 Referral to the parable of the two
friends;
18-28 The consequences of fidelity to choose the right are
mentioned;
29-38 We are reminded that all documents should be sent
promptly;
39-42 An allegory to the promise of Malachi;
43-46 A final
exhortation to everyone.
For behold, the day will come
when many shall say: A letter! A letter! We have written a letter! Why
do we need to write more letters?
2 O fools! Why do ye murmur?
Do ye not know that there are more than one day? And thus, more than one
event in said day? Why do ye think that such events need not be
written?
3 Why do ye think that we having already received a
letter that we should not receive another? For behold, the mission is
not over yet.
4 For it has been commanded that all men in both
the East and West, even in the North and South, and in the islands of
the sea, that they should write letters to your missionary (My servant
Elder Christensen).
5 And then the postman will say, “I will
give to missionaries letter on letter, package by package, a little
here, a little there.”
6 Therefore you must be constantly
writing letters, for he who writes without ceasing will not be found
guilty at the last day.
7 Verily, verily, I say unto you: you should not send postcards, behold, these are small.
8
Woe, woe, unto him who says: “All is well in the mission,” the
missionaries have received their letter and they need no more.
9 For they have written many family and friends but have not written back. And why then did they not write back?
10 Because their hearts are set upon the things of this world and do not aspire to the friendship of the missionaries.
11 For what good is a mailbox if no letter is written? Why then, were post offices built?
12
Hear ye this parable! To see if ye derive wisdom: “At the twelfth hour
of the day a Pharisee and a Publican sat down to write a letter to a
missionary.
13 And behold, the Pharisee thought of many things to write, but he thought so much… he did not write anything.
14 However, he rejoiced in his heart for his good intention.
15 And the Publican, wrote during lunch, but felt guilty about how little he wrote.
16 And behold, two years passed and the missionary returned home and passed the Pharisee’s house, but visited him not.
17 And he passed the house of the Publican, and visited him, and they rejoiced together.”
18 For verily I say unto you, unto whom a letter is written, a letter is required.
19
Now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that even still you doubt in your
hearts; for this, I have been asked to speak concerning these things.
20
For the one who hears the voice of truth, shall know then that one
must write letters. For the voice of the evil one does not teach a man
to write letters, but it teaches man that he does not need to write
letters.
21 Behold, I say unto you yet again that ye must
constantly write letters and do nothing without first writing a letter
to the missionaries who are in the field.
22 For this is the time to remember your missionaries; yes, behold, the day in which ye must write letters.
23
And now, as it is recommended you many times, I beg you not to
procrastinate the day to write your letters until the end, for behold,
after these two years that have been given you to write your
missionaries, if ye do not improve your time during these two years,
then cometh a day when my servants shall complete their missions and
come home, where you can not write letters.
24
Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will
repent, I will write to my missionary. Nay, ye cannot say this; for it
shall be too late.
25 And in that day there will be many who
shall say: “Elder… Elder… Did we not send a postcard in your name? And
to your name a card for your birthday and another at Christmas?”
26 And then will I profess unto them: I never knew you; depart from me, ye that write not.
27 A true friend can not send short letters, as such a bad friend can not send long letters.
28 And every friend who does not write any letter shall be cast out, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
29 And by their letters ye shall know them.
30
Oh the vanity and ingenuity of man! For they believe they are wise
when they are not, and leave their letters to one side assuming soon to
find a stamp. Behold, these will not be preserved and their letters
perish with them.
31 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, learn to quickly take thy letters to the mailbox.
32 Do not leave thy letters on the table where the soot and moth corrupt them and where thieves read and steal.
33
Instead, place thy letters in the mailbox where neither moth nor soot
can corrupt them, and where thieves do not read or steal.
34 Nor
write letters like the hypocrite, using large letters that makes his
letters seem to be long. For I say unto you, they have their answer.
35 Moreover, when you write thine letters, use small print, and paper large in size.
36 Therefore, he who hears these things and doeth them, he shall be compared to a wise man who sent his letter as “priority”.
37 And came the rain and winds lashing the plane, but it did not fall. For it was a Boeing 747.
38
But he who hears these things and doeth them not, he shall be like
unto the fool, the letter sent by boat, and when the rains and winds
battered the boat, it deflated and sank, and great was the misery of the
man.
39 Will a man rob the mailbox? Yet ye have robbed the
mailman. But ye say, Wherin have we robbed thee? In your letters and
parcels.
40 Bring ye all the letters to the mailbox and have
parcels in hand, and prove me now herewith, saith your friend the
missionary, if I will not open the doors of my house and serve you a
roast with salads until there shall not be room enough to receive it.
41
And neighbors shall call you blessed, because the smell the roast at a
distance of a stones throw and it be a desirable thing, saith thy
friend the missionary.
42 Behold, I will send the chef who
prepares the food before me, so long as each who feasteth, was faithful
unto me in his letters and parcels.
43 Now my dear brothers I
would like to tell you all the ways and means for you to send your
letters; for they are without number.
44 But this I can tell
you, that if ye send not thy letters, packages, gifts and sweets and
remember not your missionaries who are in the field, then ye must be
cast off forever.
45 For verily I say no letter will not be received with joy, though, perhaps (for lack of time) can not be answered.
46
Oh! Remember my brethren these things I have said that ye not perish,
behold, I will be waiting for your response every day until the end of
the mission. Even so, Amen.
