The Church is true in the 3rd world. August 2, 2010

So I was in fast and testimony meeting yesterday and it was probably the most spiritual of my life. So testimonies here are so precious. There so simple, eloquent, and beautiful. They don't tell stories here. They just get up and tell a sweet experience or just say what they believe and sit down. First Sonia talked about how grateful she was the missionaries knocked on her door the week before she started chemo therapy. Then another brother talked about how he was dieing from obesity, and prayed to God for the help he needed when the missionaries came to him. Five years later 150 pounds less. The next a mother crying of how proud she is that her 8 year old son who was about to get baptized had his own personal testimony and the gospel.

When I first got here I remember the awkwardly dressed congregations, and unfilled presidencies in all the quorums and two priest in the whole ward, and no elders quorums and tons of things. I remember saying "the Church is so much less true here."

As I choked back tears in the sacrament meeting as people got up with less then 6 months knowing the true Church and crying about how much it changed there lives I received a great change. "The Church is so much more true here. And that's because this whole country needs it." I know the gospel blesses people, families, lives and countries more then anything else, and I am so glad to be here helping people, The Church is true... and I dare say perhaps a little more here in the 3rd world.
Thanks. Love Elder Morris