URGENCY…THE
TIME IS NOW…AND OUR TIME IS SHORT
Dear Elders and Sisters,
As I knelt with all of you across the mission in our hour of
mighty prayer, I felt your strong spirits, I felt your strength and I felt our
unity of purpose like no other time in the past. Did you feel it also? Our
mission is on the rise and it is you who are lifting it up. Hold on tight,
because we are ready to take off into heights “never before imagined” in this
mission… just as Elder Perry promised us in April.
“I promise you that if you use the training and skills that
you have been taught and use the ward and the stake resources that….The windows of heaven will open and you will see blessings that you never before imagined.”
That is the promise given to us… the California Santa Rosa
Mission. We have been praying non-stop
since Sept. for the windows of heaven to
open for us. Now, we have received a promise from an apostle of the Lord
that it will happen. This is not a
coincidence. It is a direct answer to
our prayers. Please recognize this and
be grateful and believe. Our time is now
and our time is short. Every day needs to go from one of common place to one of
excited urgency. Every day we should hit
the ground running to keep up. Every day
should be packed from one end to the other with finding, teaching, inviting and
helping others come unto Christ. Every
day we should remember our purpose in all we do…for we are truly servants of
Jesus Christ and we are helping fulfill God’s purpose, which is … “to bring to
pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”
How grand is that? What a
blessing it is to be here representing the Savior of the world.
We must do our part for the promise to be fulfilled… we must
use the new skills and training and we must use the ward resources. Focus your mission these things and we will…
witness blessings never before imagined!
Continue in obedience dear Elders and Sisters. We are becoming the most obedient mission on
the earth today and the blessings cannot be held back.
Have more faith, for faith precedes the miracle. Believe in the 101. Believe in the opening of the windows of
heaven. Believe in the promise… and have
hope when you have difficult days filled with discouragement. For hope is the understanding that all of
God’s promises will be fulfilled.
As I knelt in prayer and talked to Heavenly Father I was
enveloped with peace. All will be
well. We are ready for this. We can and we will do it. But it will take
every one of us, in unity of focus, prayer, fasting, obedience, diligence and
with a sense of urgency to bring it about. Are you on the rocket train? If not, the time is now. It is not too late. Don’t be left behind and
thereby miss out on the experience of being on board. Will you someday tell your children about
‘The Hastening’ and that you were a part of it?
Will you one day tell them about the California Santa Rosa Mission
rocket train…about the vision of the 101…the miracles… the changes… the windows
of heaven opening?? Will you say… I was
there… I was a part of that….and it all happened because of faith and obedience?
D&C 34:3-10
“Who so loved the world that he gave his own life, that as many as would believe might become the
sons of God. Wherefore you are my son;
And
blessed are you because you have believed;
And
more blessed are you because you are called of me to preach my gospel-
To lift
up your voice as with the sound of a trump, both long and loud, and cry
repentance unto a crooked and perverse generation, preparing the way of the
Lord for his second coming.
For behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, the time is soon at hand that I shall
come in a cloud with power and great glory.
And it shall be a great day at the time of my coming, for
all nations shall tremble.
But before that great day shall come, the sun shall be
darkened, and moon be turned unto blood; and the stars shall refuse their
shining, and some shall fall, and great destructions await the wicked.
Wherefore,
lift up your voice and spare not, for the Lord God hath spoken; therefore
prophesy, and it shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost.”
The
time is now and the time is now short….it is time for URGENCY IN THE WORK OF
THE LORD and you are the ones who have been saved to be here now. Fulfill the
measure of your creation.
We can
do it… together.
With
all my love, Sister Alba
