March 11, 2022
Good morning Sister Burton,
Another long day for me. Long days are the normal. I feel blessed to be working. I've always given credit to The Lord.
Have a wonderful day champ.
Miss you. Love you my beautiful daughter of mine. I couldn't ask for a more incredible daughter.
You are perfect in my book! Just perfect!
Be patient. This is one of the great powers of old and most misunderstood, underrepresented aspects of the gospel.
[Another nugget in the secrets in life notes.] :)
In patience you see into the future. You see into the ethers of time. Through patience the spiritual is revealed. The mold of courage formed, created, and broken to be applied in deterring the
adversary, even bringing one's destiny opened and into view. You cannot endure to the end without patience. You can't have charity without patience. Hearts healed & souls reborn not possible I say, without patience.
Redemption cometh to pass because one applies patience. One cannot express appreciation for all the creation without patience. It's through patience we are reformed. Be it said that the foundation of which patience lays out allows the very workings of the spirit to testify, revealing to our soul's, the truths of the everlasting gospel.
We hold firm to the iron rod and are set upon the covenant path because of patience which in turn sets forth communication from heaven.
The refiners fire purifies us through patience. Exhalation is achievable and yet is our eternal reward through patience. Be it not so that we hold the very key {patience} that unlocks the majestic portal of the great beyond, into the ['mortal' sightless, mindless, and incomprehensible], frontiers of foreverness?
It is well Sister Burton to have this gift. This virtue. This characteristic of Christ. Patience allows our touch to join together with loved one's as we connect through the veil. I testify with a boldness and voice strong as a bear, patience gives way, kneeling in reverence to repentance and serves as the balm of forgiveness. Can one hardy look upon and comprehend the Savior's Atonement and recognize not that the thread of patience is that integral power binding the promise given unto all that with opened spiritual eyes gazes and look, fore behold, are we not amazed!??
I say unto you, it is so.............
The prophet Joseph couldn't have had a better friend than me. I would have served him. I would have protected him. I would have laughed, worked, and cried with him. I would have taken
a bullet for him. Shared a dungeon and grieved with him. Given my blanket unto him.
Traveled across the plains to a new land because he saw a vision to do so. If it so be of me, buried a child, friends and loved one's along the way,
a sacrifice of trials only to find healing of a broken heart through my obedience along the way.
How could I not accept a mission call from our prophet Joseph to distant lands near or far far away to serve The Lord testifying with authority and The Book of Mormon in hand, the fullness of the gospel has been restored to the earth preparatory to the second coming of our Lord and Savior, The Great I Am, Counselor, and Shepherd. He who was extolled from on high, prophesied prophetically throughout time, The Messiah.
We shall see Joseph one day Gussy.
He lives and stands at the head of this the last great dispensation of time. He has ushered in the restoration. He sits on a throne next to
The Father on his left. The Savior on the right.
Chosen from before the foundations of this earth he was foreordained to lead and guide the
latter-day saints be it in body and now spirit.
Brother Joseph set into motion the great gathering of Israel and directs the unfolding
progress still today until the time our
Father declares, "It is done."
May we be ever grateful for Joseph's sacrifice and all the blessings from the early saints in our behalf. He saw The Father. He saw The Savior.
Heavenly Father knew his name. Angels anointed and blessed him. He was true and faithful to that errand he was entrusted. I know these things to be so. Does truth not vibrate through one's soul which enlightens the spirit? And yet in my humility and lowly of heart I not yet have seen him, nor
do I need to at this present time. It has been given unto me in that day upon setting my eyes on him,
I will know who he is and recognize his voice
as hands are clasped and an embrace, as holy
as the very halls of heaven, are extended
to one another.
{{May we testify of such truths today, honor our spiritual past, and raise our sights to accomplishing higher spiritual achievements in the future. Might we raise (the standard) high as a banner waving in the breeze that we shrink not from our responsibility in this great work. May my children come to know of such things as they truly are that they be not deceived unto selling their birthright for a moment in time, a Telestial reward that has no eternal place only a hell for the damed and hold the line with patience through all Terrestrial temptations that blind the souls of men with empty, unfulfilled promises securing their eternal futures in misery. Thus may they fulfill
all that is right and good as well as having the promised patriarchal Celestial blessings
of Exhalation bestowed upon this family to rest
in His presence partaking of that fruit
of Tree of Life...............I pray.
May it be said of each of us that our worthiness will grant His grace unto all encircled in this great family throughout all time and generations of time such blessings now and into the eternities-}}
Amen
Pops
YOU ARE READING
Letters From Pops
Non-FictionEmails that my dad sent me while I was serving my mission. The first chapter is the last email. I did it backwards. Enjoy if you decide to give it a read. A lot of wisdom that helped me get through my mission!
