Easter Letter to our Grandchildren

Our precious Grandchildren, Happy Easter,

            I hope that you were able to capture that famous bunny that lays chocolate Easter eggs!  Our eggs in Hungary are all brown!  It is hard to color brown eggs for Easter!  Maybe that is nature’s way of trying to play an April Fool’s Day joke on us to make us think that chickens can lay chocolate eggs!  But we know, only the Easter Bunny can lay chocolate eggs!

            Yesterday, Hepa and Nema did something on our mission that we don’t think your dads ever did on their missions, we taught the Plan of Salvation to four Muslim students that are here in Miskolc studying engineering!  The young missionaries asked us to come with them to help them with the lesson, but then turned to Hepa and said, “Elder Moser will teach the Plan of Salvation to the four of you.”  The young men all spoke very good English and the lesson was in English.

            Parker could have taught the lesson, because he knows the diagram so well.  The young missionaries did not know the diagram and were also very unsure what to teach.  Hepa spent about 4 to 5 hours studying Friday night and Saturday morning about the religion of Islam and the comparison between that religion and Christianity.

            I have attached the six pages that I modified and gave to them.  I hope it will teach them more about the LDS Church’s stand compared to their religion and to that of the other Christian churches.  The lesson went well and they asked if they could come to church on Easter.  It will be interesting.  They just want to learn about Christian beliefs.  The one comment to struck me the most was when I explained that all mankind would have the opportunity to hear about God’s truth, whether here on earth or in Paradise.  One young man said, “So you are saying that if I die and find out that your Church is true and mine is not, that I will have an opportunity to study and come to know the truth?”  I told him yes he would, if he would continue to live his religion as it is taught in the Qur’an and be good to all people he meets in his life. It is important for him to live a good life.  So who knows, at least for one young man, he has an open mind that maybe, just maybe Islam may not be true.

            The main lesson yesterday was that God loves all of his children regardless of what they believe.  We showed them that in many areas, what the LDS Church believes in is almost the same as their belief.  We told them that we spend part of our time here in Hungary trying to help the refugees who are mostly Muslim. We said that the LDS Church spends millions of dollars every year to help the refugees because we all are children of God.

            We pray every day that we will be put in situations that we can teach and live the Gospel so that people will come to know the Savior better.  Yesterday, we taught with the hope that the results of the meeting, at least four young men will know that the LDS Church respects them and their religion.  We may never know what good can come of that meeting.  What we do know, that during the meeting, when they asked some pretty hard questions, Hepa was told in his mind the answers to those questions.  When he told the young men the answers, they looked at each other and would comment how close their belief and our beliefs were.  The Holy Ghost was in the meeting giving Hepa the answers.  Someday we may find out the results of that meeting.

            I testify that Jesus Christ atoned for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane.  That he continued to suffer the pains of the atonement while still on the cross.  When he had satisfied all that His Father had asked him to do, He then died upon the cross. Just the next morning, he became the first person to be resurrected.  He brought with him the good news of the Gospel, that he has overcome death; that we all will be resurrected and able to continue our goal to return to our Father in Heaven.  That is the story of Easter.  That is my testimony. Please know that regardless of what happens in life, my knowledge of the truth of the Gospel is my most precious thing that I own.  I hope that you will listen to your parents and your grandparents. Read the Book of Mormon every year. Go to church and obey God’s commandments.  Keep planning on going on a mission, the greatest 18 months or two years you can live while in your youth.  Serving the Lord on a mission will bring you wisdom, knowledge and the joy that you are serving Jesus Christ in a small way to say “Thank you for what you did for me on that first Easter weekend almost 2,000 years ago.”

Hepa and Nema

Click on link below for the document regarding the comparisons of Christianity - Islam - LDS 
Comparison Christianity-Islam-LDS