The Pure Love of Christ

I have been thinking much this week about the wonderful spirit of peace, joy, and love we feel here in Guatemala.  There is a spirit in this Work that is hard to describe.  It hearkens me back to my days as a young missionary in Colombia.  There too I felt this same special spirit and experienced the same spiritual growth that we feel here in Guatemala.  We feel this special spirit in our work in the Area Office and Dental Clinic, and we especially feel it in our work in the Guatemala City Temple.  Last night at the temple, I officiated in a session of the endowment where an elderly couple came to receive their endowment and then be sealed as eternal companions.  The spirit in the session was marvelous and moving.

As I have contemplated this topic this  past week or so, I have come to realize that the feeling we are experiencing here is the pure love of Christ.  It is our love for Christ and for the Father that brings us here to serve as missionaries, but what I mean is that God loves his missionaries and He shares that love with them in a very special way.  That love fills our hearts with great peace and joy, with gratitude, and a desire to do always that which pleases our Father.  There are many things which we could be doing with our lives right now, but I can´t think of anything that we could be doing that could possibly bring us such love, peace, and joy as serving here.

I hope and pray that each of my grandchildren will gain a personal testimony of the Book of Mormon, the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Restoration, the Church, and our Savior, Jesus Christ, and that each of them will have the experience of tasting his pure love as a missionary.  There is nothing sweeter than the love of God.