Imagine a current apostle (pick any one!) coming to live with you for one week.
Really.
He wouldn’t do anything special.
He’d just observe.
He’d see what normal life looks like for you and your family over the course of a week.
And then he’d leave.
He would return back to his home.
And a few weeks later, a letter arrives in the mail.
A letter from the apostle, completely personalized to you and your family.
What would that letter say?
I asked this question to a group of teenagers one time, whose answers immediately went negative:
“He would tell me to not fight with my brother so much.”
“He would ask me to help my mom with more things.”
That’s probably where a lot of our minds go at first—
Everything we are doing wrong.
But what might the apostle sincerely praise?
The group of teenagers I was talking to said things like,
“He would tell my family we are doing a good job at trying to read the scriptures.”
Wouldn’t that be cool to have your own personal epistle from an apostle?
The very specific and personal praise and correction?!
Well…
I don’t think we have to wonder about this hypothetical situation.
Because we have the gift of the Holy Ghost.
“Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.” (Philippians 3:15)
God will reveal to us what we can change and improve.
THROUGH the Holy Ghost!
What can I improve?
What am I doing well?
The Holy Spirit can give us those specific answers when we ask with sincere intent to act on the counsel we receive.
And we then can discover our own personalized epistle, straight from the Savior.
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
