Dear Keawe,
I have the number 3 on the back of my reunion shirt, indicating my place out of the seven children born to your grandpa & grandma Kane. How grateful I am to have been born to goodly parents into the fold of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have been taught all my life that I am a "Child of God" and to "Choose the Right" and that "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" that needs to shine for Him each and every day. Sadly, I do not remember much from my baptism, about how I felt or even if I understood the promises that I was making. But, you sweet Keawe know, and testified today how you feel "peace in your soul" about what you chose to do. I feel that you are one of the special spirits that have come to fulfill a great purpose for your Heavenly Father.
You are number 18 cousin on your reunion shirt. Do you wonder what number you are out of the billion, trillion, or gazillion number of spirits that have come to this earth? Like my baptism experience, we do not remember the promises we made before we came to earth, but I do know that we made them and we are blessed to be members of an organization that teaches us how to pray, to read God's word in scripture, to follow the advice of a living prophet, to listen and obey the promptings of the Holy Ghost so that we can know the work that our Heavenly Father and Jesus has for us to do every day. If you stay faithful to your covenants, you will hopefully take the next step and go to the temple and make more promises. Then you will be able to hear the words in the initiatory that remind you that you will protected until you have finished your work on the earth. That is why we are here, to do His work.
Thank you for choosing to follow Jesus. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to reflect upon my testimony and of spiritual things. It is a blessing that we are part of an eternal ohana. We both have a work to do with our own little earthly flock. But remember, there is one fold and one shepherd Keawe, welcome to the family.
Let's Get to Work!
xomp
