Elder Pier Dick

Monday, 12-26-16 I g ot to skype with my family on Sunday. It was fantastic!  We were instructed to keep the call to less than an hour, and we were promised huge blessings if we did so. So our call was 58 minutes long. And let me tell you, the blessings came!  I wasn’t distracted at all thinking about home. It didn’t make me homesick, it made me happier. The blessings of following the rules truly come.

This week was great! Shorter than most though, since the change in P-days. Our days to prepare for the upcoming week used to be on Wednesdays, but now they are Mondays!   Elder Brasileiro is doing fantastic! He has some great news about his sister and her mission call! Their family is so excited for her.  She will be serving in Temple Square!  So all my Utah friends, come May, take a trip up to Temple square and ask around for Sister Brasileiro!  Please, she's super cool.   It's really cool because Elder Brasileiro's English is improving so much. When I came, he knew English super well. But it's cool to see the improvements!  I know for me, I've felt the improvements in my Portuguese. It's so amazing to be able to show that to our investigators, and members! Those that knew me my first few weeks saw how much I struggled to speak. And now, they get to witness a miracle of God with their own eyes. My Portuguese is far from perfect, but the language barr

12/07/16 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is currently doing a worldwide campaign completely focused around service.  It is called #LightTheWorld and it is completely based around performing acts of service that are like Jesus Christ. Take 3 minutes right now and go ahead and watch this video that our Church released depicting the acts of service Jesus did, and the comparison of what we can do today; www.mormon.org (just hit play) I think the strongest message in this video is the idea that Jesus Christ performed these grand miracles. Healing the blind, feeding 5,000. He was truly powerful, endowed from on High. Us today, can we heal the blind? Can we feed 5,000? Surely not like Jesus did. But we have our own ways. Healing the sick, can’t we donate blood? Or bring a homecooked meal to a sick friend? Or even simply pray for those who are afflicted?  All of these are acts of service. Certainly not as grand as touching them and saying “Be healed,” But they are jus

The more we serve our fellow men, the more substance there is to our souls….We become more substantive as we serve others. It becomes easier to ‘find’ ourselves, because there is so much more of us to find! Everyone, individually in their life, approaches and ponders the three big questions of life. Who am I? Why am I here? And where am I going?  This week, I want to offer an answer to this first question, Who am I? And actually, not so much as an answer, as much as a tried-and-true method for answering this question yourself.  Take a moment right now and ask yourself who you are. Are you a wife? Husband? Teacher? Student? Child of God? What truly DEFINES you as who you are?  Of course, coming from a very religious upbringing, and as most all Christians believe that we are children of God, this answer might be the favorite. But, I propose that we are so much more than that. I propose that we are here on this earth for much more than to be self-identified as just “A child of God.” It is