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Rahn Wet

Atail soukohp ieias wiewia ah pwukoah en kapwulowei Pwuhk en Mormon nan sampah pwon. Kitail anahne idawehn ih.

Riei ohl oh lih akan, mahsen me mih nan Pwuhk en Mormon me inda “Rahn wet”1 e doadoahk pak tohto pwe en kak kasalehieng kitail iren kaweid kan, inou kan, oh padahng kan. Nahnmwarki Benjamin, nan kaimseklahn sapwelime padahk, e kaweidki aramas akan, “rong ei pato kan me I pahn patohwanohng kumwail rahnwet; … rong ie mwahu, oh rongki salengamwail kan pwe kumwail en kak rong mwahu, oh langahda mohngiongamwail kan pwe kumwail en kak wehwehki, oh ritingada amwail madamadau kan pwe sapwellimen Koht me rir kan en kak sansalda ong kumwail.”2 Kapokon lap e kin mih ni soangen mwohmwohte. Kitail kohpene pwe kitail en rong kaweid “rahn wet,” pwe kitail en kak “mehlel ansou koaros”3 ong Kauno oh Sapwellime rongamwahuo. Ih me i keiou kin medemedewe “rahn wet” iei kesempwalpen kaweliakapwih atail loaloapwoat ong Pwuhk en Mormon, me Joseph Smith indahki “me keioun pwung sang pwuhk teikan nan sampah.”4

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Nein Elder Rasband kapi en Pwuken Mormon

I kolokol nan pehiet koapi en Pwuhk en Mormon ieu. Nei pwuhk wet e sangete nan 1970, oh e udahn kesempwal ong ie. E mwomwen tok oh wereila, apw sohte ehu pwuhk me kesempwal ong ahi mouret oh ahi kadehde due pwuhk wet. Ni ahi wadek pwuhk wet I alehdi ahi kadehde sang ngehn sarawi me Sises Krais iei Sapwelimen Koht Iehros,5 me Ih ahi sounkomour,6 me iren pwuhk sarawihkat iei mahsen en Koht,7 oh rongomwahuo kapwurpwurdohr.8 Loaleiet audaudkihda mehlel pwukat. Duwehte soukohp Nephi ah kosoia,“Palingeniet kin perenki soahng kan me sang rehn Kauno.”9

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Elder Rasband iangahki ah mission presiden oh Elder Hanks

Pali maun ong meing: Elder Ronald A. Rasband, young missionary; President Harold Wilkinson, president of the Eastern States Mission; and Elder Marion D. Hanks, General Authority Seventy.

Iet soaiepe. Ni ai wia misineri pwulopwul men, I ale kaweid en Elder Marion D. Hanks, me pwarek kiht nan Eastern States Mission. E wia presiden en British Mission mahs, oh meh riemen nah misinerihko mihmi mwoweht rahnwet: riei ohl Jeffrey R. Holland oh Elder Quentin L. Cook.10 Duwehte nah misineri kan nan England, e padahkiong kiht en wadek koapi en Pwuhk en Mormon pak riau. I kapwaiada luhko. Keieu en wadawad ih pahn anahne kilelehdi ire koaros me doke de kadehde duwen Sises Krais. I doadoahngki pinsel weitahta oh kilelehdi irehkei. Keriau, Elder Hanks dene sen kilelehdi ire kesempwal akan oh padahk kan en rongamwahuo, oh ansou wet ih doadoahngki poh mei nan iren pwuhk sarawi kan. I wadek Pwuhk en Mormon pak riau, nin duwen me e kiheng kihto, oh pak riau mwuri, oh met ih doadoahngki me oangoahng oh toantoal oh kilelehdi irehkan me kesempwal ong ie.11 Ma kumwail kilang, I kilelehdi diren irehkei.

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Koapi en Pwuken Mormon me aramas elehda

Ai wadawado, i sohte kin kilelehdihte iren pwuhk sarawi kan. Ni ai wadewadek Pwuhk en Mormon, sang ni tapi lel imwi, loaleiet kin audaudkihla limpok laud ong Kauno. I kehn kadehde laud duen mehlel en Sapwellime padahk kan oh mwomwen atail pahn doadoahngki ong “rahn wet.” Pwuhko pahrekiong oaralapo, “Pilehu Kadehdepen Sises Krais.”12 Sang ni onopo oh kadehde me ih alehdiero sang Ngehno, I wiahla misineri en Pwuhk en Mormon oh werek en Sises Krais.13

”Rahn wet,” emen misineri en Pwuhk en Mormon wadawad iei President Russell M. Nelson. Ansou me e tepin alehda pwukoah en Wahnpoaron, e wia kasukuhl ehu nan Accra, Ghana.14 Aramas lapalap kei iang patehng, me iangahki nahnmwarikihn wasa ehu nan Africa, me e koasoaieng ah emen kin kawehweh. Nanmwarikio kin loaloapwoatieng Pwuhk Sarawi oh poakohng Kauno. Mwurin en Presiden Nelson padahko, nahnmwarikio kohla reh, oh idek reh ni lokaiahn Wai, “Ihs kowe?” President Nelson padahkiong me ih emen Wahnpoaron en Sises Krais me keidier.15 Mwirin mwo nahnmwarikio edek, “Dahme ke pahn kak padahkiong ie duwen Sises Krais?”16

President Nelson ale Pwuken Mormon oh pahkala nan 3 Nihpai 11. President Nelson oh nahnmwarkio koaros wadek sapwellimen Sounkomouro padahk ong mehn Nihpahi kan: “Eri, Ngehi Sises Krais, me soukohp akan kadehdeier pahn kohdo nan sampah. … Ngehi me marain oh mour en sampah.”17

President Nelson kiong nanmwarikio ehu Pwuhk en Mormon, oh nanmwarikio sapengki, “Ke kak kihdong ie taimen de takai kesempwal kan, ahpw sohte ehu mehkot me kesempwal ong ie sang ien esehla Kaun Sises Krais.”18

kaidekin ihte karasaras en mwomwen atail soukohpo ah kin ehukiheng mehteikan Pwuken Mormon me. E kiong koapi en Pwuhk en Mormon ong aramas epwiki samwa kei, oh kin ansou koaros wia ah kadehde pen Sises Krais. Ansou me President Nelson tuhwong aramas lukedo kan, president kan, nanmwariki kan, kaun en wehi kan, kaun en pesnes oh pwihn en pali en lamalam teikan, sohte lipilipil ma nan poahson en Mwomwodiso kan de nan arail pein wasa kan, e kin ansou koaros kasalehda pwuhk wet oh audepe kan. E kak kiong irail soahng tohto me pahn kak mih ni tehpel de pohn dana de nan kapined kan pwe en kak wia mehn kataman pen ah pwarala wasao. Ahpw soh, e kin kihla dahme kin keieu kesempwal ong ih, me kesempwal sang takai kesempwal kan oh taimen kan, ni mwomwen namwarikio ah kawewedahr.

“Mahsen mehlel kan en Pwuhk en Mormon,” President Nelson kosoia, “ahniki manaman en kamwahuihala, kansenamwahuih, kapwurehda, powehdi, kakehlaka, koalolamwahuih, oh kaperenih loalen aramas koaros.”19 I kilangehr koapi kan en Pwuhk en Mormon tengeteng nan pehn irail akan me alehdi pwuhk wet sang rehn atail soukohp en Koht. Sohte ehu kisakis laudsang.

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Presiden Nelson oh en Presiden en Gambia poud

E apwtehn tuhwong first lady en The Gambia nan ah ohpis oh ni karakarahk pil kiong ih Pwuhk en Mormon. E sohte uhdi wasao. E pahkpeseng pwuhk wet oh iang ih wadek, pwe en padahki oh kadehde duwen Sises Krais, Sapwelime Tomwo, oh Sapwelime limpoak ong koaros Sapwelimen Koht seri kan—wasa koaros.

Atail soukohp ieias wiewia ah pwukoah en kadirehkihla sampah ki Pwuhk en Mormon.20 Ahpw e sohte kak kelehpw ki doadoahk wet. Kitail anahne idahwen ih.

Sang ni ah karasaras, I pil kin nantiong oh kehlailki ehukihwei Pwuhk en Mormon.

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Elder Rasband oh Presiden en Mozambique

Me keren ih alehdi pwukoah ehu nan Mazambique. Aramas en wehi kaselel wet ahneki kahpwal en semwehmwe, soumwahu, sohte doadoahk, kisinieng, oh pwihn suwed kan. Ih ahnekihdi ansou mwahu en tuhwong president en wehi oh, Filipe Nyuse. Sang ni ah pekipek, I kapakapki ih oh sapwellime wehi; I padahkiong me kitail pahn kawada tehnpas sarawi en Sises Krais21 nan ah wehio. Kaimwseklahn aht tuhpeneo, I kihong ih ehu koapi en Pwuhk en Mormon ni lokaiahn Portuguese, ni pein ah lokaia. Ni ansou me e alehdi pwuhk wet, I kadehdehki duwen kopworopwor oh inou ong nah aramas akan, me Kauno masaniher nan pwuhko.22

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Elder Rasband oh Nahnmwarki oh Likend en Lesotho

Nan ehu ansou, ai pwoud, Melanie, oh ngehi tuhwong nanmwariki en Lesotho Letsie III oh ah pwoud ni tehnpasara.23 Ong kiht, kahrepen aht mwemweito iei en kiong ira koapi en Pwuhk en Mormon oh ehukiong ira aht kadehde. Ansou me I tamanda mwekido oh ekei, ih tamanda ire ieu en imwin-rahn akan, “Unsek en ai rongamwahu o pahn kohsang rehn me aramas me luwet oh me mengei kan lau lel ni idin sampah, oh mwohn nanmwariki kan oh kaun akan koaros.”24

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Elder Rasband oh Ambassador Panely
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Kaun akan en Mwomwohdisoht oh His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew

I pil ehukiongehr Pwuhk en Mormon ong Ambassador en India ong United Nations an Geneva, Indra Mani Pandey25; oh His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew26 en Mwomwohdiso en Eastern Orthodox oh meteikan koaros. I kin kehn Ngehn en Kauno reht ansou me I kin kihwei “poahson en atail mwomwohdiso”27 oh wia ai kadehde pen Sises Krais, me wia takain pwukekeimw en atail pwoson.28

Eri, Rieiko, Kumwail sohte anahne kohla Mozambique de India de tuhwong nanmwariki kan de kaun akan pwe en kihong emen aramas pwuhk sarawi wet oh inou kan koaros. I luke kumwail, rahn wet, en kihong Pwuhk en Mormon ong kompokepahmw kan oh peneinei kan, iengemw tohn doadoahk, ahmw kaunen soccer, de tohn doadoahk en nan ahmw markedo. Irail anahne mahsen en Kauno me dierek nan pwuhk wet. Irail anahne pasapeng kan ong peidek kan en nan mour en rahn koaros oh ong mour soutuk me pahn kohdo. Irail anahne esehla elen inou me mih mwohrail oh sapwellimen Kauno limpoak ong irail. Koaros mih nan Pwuhk en Mormon.

Ansou me ke kiong irail Pwuhk en Mormon ke ritingada arail madamadau kan oh loalerail kan ong mahsen en Koht. Ke sohte anahne weuwa koapi en pwuhk wet. Ke kak kin share sang nan noumw cell kan sang ni pali kapw ehu nan Gospel Library app.29

Medewehda irail akan me pahn kak alehdi kapai pwehki rongamwahuo nan arail mour, oh kadaralahng irail ehu Pwuhk en Mormon sang noumw cell. Tamataman en kapataiehng ahmw kadehde oh pil duwen pwuhkwet eh kapaiada ahmw mour.

Kompokepahi kan, ni ai wia Wahnpoaron en Kauno, I men pwurehng luke kumwail en idahwen atail soukohp, President Nelson, nan katohtolahn Pwuhk en Mormon pohn sampah. Anahn wet inenen laud, kitail anahne mwekid ansouet. I inoukiong uhk me ke pahn iang patehng nan “doadoahk me keieu laud pohn sampah” iei kapwurupwurpenehn Isreal,30 ni Ngehno Ah pahn kaweiduhk ni amw pahn sewese irail akan me “sohte ese me mehlel o pwehki re sehse iawasa re pahn diar ie.”31 Irail anahne amw kadehde oh kadehdepen mwomwen pwuhk wet ah wekidala amw mour oh kahreiong amw karanihla Koht, Sapwellime popohl,32 oh Sapwellime “peren me keieu laud.”33

I kadehde me Pwuhk en Mormon kounopadahr nan America mahso pwe en kak kalohki sapwellimen Koht mahsen, pwehn wahdo ngehn kan koaros rehn Kaun Sihses Krais oh Sapwellime rongamwahu kapwurupwurdohu “rahn wet.” Ni mwaren Sises Krais, amen.

Ire kan

  1. Kilang Seikop 2:2–3; Mosaia 2:14, 30; 5:7; Alma 7:15; and many other verses in the Book of Mormon.

  2. Mosiah 2:9.

  3. Alma 53:20.

  4. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith2007), 64. Padahk unsek sang rehn Joseph Smith November 28, 1841, nan tuhpene en Wahnparon Ehk Riemeno: “I padahkiong riei kan me Pwuhk en Mormon wia pwuhk me keieu pwung pohn sampah, oh ihme wia poahsoan en atail mwomwohdiso, oh aramas emen kak karanihla Koht sang ni ah pahn kin kapwaiada audepe kan, sang pwuhk teikan.” Wiepe me keiouhn mwahu en “kapwungala” kak kohsang nan kaudiahl me kin alahldi sang nan pwuhk en kawehweh kan oh padahk kan me kin mih nan Pwuhk en Mormon me mwahu sang pwuhk teikan me “mengei oh kesempwal” mehlel kan en rongamwahu et (kilang 1 Nephi 13:40).

  5. Kilang “Koht ieias: Kadehde en Wanporon ko,”a declaration by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, January 1, 2000: “Se kadehde,ni aht wia Sapwelime Wahnporon kei—me Sises Krais ketin ieias, iei Sapwelimen Koht. Ih me Nanmwariki Immanuel, me kin ket ni pali meing en Semeho. Ihme wia marain, mour, oh koapwoaroapwoar en sampah. Sapwelime ahl iei me pahn waikitail lahng peren nan mour wet oh mour me pahn kohdo mwuhr. Koht kin ketin kapingki duen kisakis en mahk me sang Sapwelime Ieros” (ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

  6. Kilang Isaiah 49:26; 1 Nephi 21:26; 22:12; Doctrine and Covenants 66:1.

  7. Mahsen en Koht kin dierekda nan pwuhk sarawi kan. Ni karasepe, nanPwuhk en Mormon, Laman and Lemuel peidengki, “Ia wewehn sahl metehu?” karasalahng en Lehi’s ouraman o. Nephi sapeng kosoia, “ Ih me mahsen en Koht; oh irail akan me pahn alehda mahsen en Koht,oh pahn kolokol tengeteng, irail sohte pahn mehla, oh sohte kasongosong oh lokolok en kahpwal kak powehdi irail nan rotorot, pwe en kaluwa irail wong lokolok soutik.”(1 Nephi 15:23–24).

  8. Kilang “Kapwurupwurdohn Rongamwahu en Sises Krais ni Unsek: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World,” me iangahki mepwukat: “Se kalokidahr me Mwomwodiso en Sises Krais en Souleng en Imwin-Rahn akan, wiawidahr ni April 6, 1830, wia Sapwellimen Krais Mwomwohdiso en Kadehde Kapw me Kapwurupwurdohr. Mwomwohdiso wet poahsoandi pohn mour unsek en Sises Krais, oh Sapwellime Tomw soutuk oh Iasada. Sises Krais pwurehng malipehr Wahnpoaron akan oh ketkihong irailehr mweimwei en Prihsdud. E ketin luke kitail en kohdo Reh oh Sapwellime Mwomwohdiso, pwehn alehda Ngehn Sarawi, oh tiahk sarawi en komour, oh alehda popohl soutuk. … Se kalohkihda ni popohl me inoupen Kopwurupwurdohu doudoulahte mwowe sang ni popouslahn kaudiahl. Sampah wet sohte pahn duwduwehte, ansou me Koht pahn ketin ‘kapwurepene mehkoaros ehu rehn Krais’ (Episos 1:10” (ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

  9. 2 Nephi 4:16.

  10. Kilang Quentin L. Cook, “Be Not Weary in Well-DoingBrigham Young University devotional, Aug. 24, 2020), speeches.byu.edu; “This Week on Social: How to Develop a Love for the Lord, Yourself and Others,” Church NewsJuly 17, 2020, thechurchnews.com.

  11. Kesiluh en wadawad, ongong: geology or geography; kapahieu en wadawad, tontol: soai kan en Pwuhk en Mormon.

  12. “Ehu kadehdepen Sises Krais“ me kapatapat ong ire kan nan Pwuhk en Mormon. Kaun en mwomwohdiso kan wekidala ahd en pwuhk wet pwe en kak doke audepen pwuhk wet me sansal nan oaralap wet: “Oh en pil kak sansal ong mehn Suhs kan oh men likih kan me Sises iei Krais, Koht soutik, me ketin kaselehda pein Ih ong wehi koros.”

  13. Pwehn wia emen werek en Sises Krais wia kasalepen atail limpok ong Ih. Werek kan pepdaislahr; irail kin alehda mwaren Sises Krais; irail kin nantiong idahwen Ih sang ni arail alehda Sapwelime karasaras kan me sansalehr sang rehn Wahnparon Peter: “Wiewia wehn arail kak koaros, kalaudehla arail pwoson kan; oh arail marain kan; oh pwihn en kamarain kan; oh pil kanengamah; oh kanengamah en Koht kan; oh kadek ong riomw kan; oh kadek oh tohnmetei en meteikan” (2 Peter 1:5–7; pil kilang Preach My Gospel: A Guide to Missionary Service [2019], 121–32).

  14. President Russell M. Nelson, me inenen dehde ki soun pwalang mongiong mwohn ah alehdi pwukoah en iang pwihn en Wahnparon Ehk Riemeno nan 1986, wia padahk ehu nan medical school nan Accra, Ghana, nan 1986 duwen pwalang de sewese mongiong. Pwihn en wiahda news kosoieng, oh ih kawehwehda me mihmi mwo “ni ah wia ladu en Kauno pwe en sewese [aramas akan] en wiahla toweh mwahu kei, pwe en kak sewesehda peneinei en kehlail, en kak alehda peren mehlel oh iang pweida nan wehi o.” E pwurala Accra, Ghana November 16, 2001, for the groundbreaking of the Accra Ghana Temple (kilang “Ground Broken for First Temple in West Africa,” Church News, Nov. 24, 2001, thechurchnews.com).

  15. Kilang General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints5.1.1.1Nan rahn pwukat, Kauno kin eker aramas sang rehn President en Mwomwohdiso pwe en kasarawihla ong wahnparon men oh en papah Pwihn en Wahnparon Ehk Riemen o (kilang Doctrine and Covenants 18:26–28ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

  16. Kilang Russell M. Nelson, “Pwuhk en Mormon: ia mwomwen ahmw mour ma sohte pwuhk wet?,”LiahonaNov. 2017, 60.

  17. 3 Nephi 11:10–11

  18. Russell M. Nelson, “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like Without It?,” 61.

  19. Russell M. Nelson, “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It,”62.

  20. Kilang Moses 7:62

  21. Tehnpas Sarawi en Beira Mozambique pakairda nan Epreil 4, 2021, sang President Russell M. Nelson. Aramas tohto sang elep en million me koukouson nan Beira, me mihmi ni coast en Indian Ocean.

  22. Karasaras en koapwoaroapwoar oh inou me dierek nanPwuhk en Mormon me iangahki 2 Nephi 31:20Jacob 4:4–6Alma 13:28–2922:1634:41Ether 12:32Moroni 7:418:26

  23. Elder oh Sister Rasband tuheng peneinei sopeidi ehu nan Pepweri 10, 2020, ni ara kohkihla Africa pwe ira en kasarawihla Durban South Africa Temple.

  24. Doctrine and Covenants 1:23

  25. Elder Rasband tuheng Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey, Me wia towe mehlel en India ong United Nations oh ekei pwihn nan Geneva, ni ah wiewia ah doadoahk nan Bologna, Italy, on September 17, 2021.

  26. Elder Rasband tuheng sapwelimahr lapalap en nan Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew nan mwomwohdiso en Eastern Orthodox ni ah wiewia ah doadoahk en ehupenehn pwoson nan Bologna, Italy, on September 13, 2021.

  27. Padahk kan: Sohsep Smith, 64 Takai lap iei me kin mihmi nan werengen arch ehu oh kolokol mehtei kan pwe re de pwupwudi. Soukohp Joseph Smith kawehwehda me Pwuhk en Mormon me wia “takailap en atail mwomwohdiso” pwehki sang ni kesempwal pen ah kin kihpene tohn Mwomwohdiso sang kaweid kan oh tiahk sarawi kan. Pwuhk en Mormon wia “takailap” ong mour en towe kan en mwomwohdiso wet, me kin sewese irail en kak tengeteng nan ahl en inou o.

  28. Tehk Episos 2:19–20 Sises Krais me wia takain pwukekeimw en atail Mwomwodiso wet, me adaneki mwareho. Duehte kihdien takai en pwukekeimw ni tehnpas sarawi ah kin duehte inondehn takai me kin wia poasoan en tehnpas en Koht, Sises Krais me wia atail takai en pwukekeimw ong atail pwoson oh mour. E ketin pwoula pwe kitail en kak ahniki mour; sohte emen me kak duehte ih, ni kahrepe, oh ni limpoak

  29. Ke kak ehukiwei sang nan noumw telephone en. Ehu ahl en ritingada app nan Gospel Library, kohla wasahn nahk pene iren “pwuhk sarawi” kan, oh pil padipadik wasa me inda “Share Now” ni mongehu. De sang ni app en Pwuhk en Mormon, ke kak padik wasa me inda “Share” icon, me kin sansal ki digital code me aramas emen kak scan ni ah doadoahngki pein nah cell.

  30. Russell M. Nelson, “Hope of Israelworldwide youth devotional, Suhn 3, 2018), HopeofIsrael.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. “Ni Suhn 3, 2018, President Russell M. Nelson oh ah pwoud, Wendy W. Nelson, lukehiong me pwulopwul kan en ‘iang patehng doadoahk en me pwulopwul en Kauno’ oh iang patehng nan ‘doadoahk me keieu laud, me keieu laud, oh doadoahk me keieu laud pohn sampahV Ia doadoahk me keieu laud en? Kopwurpwurpenehn mehn Israel” (Charlotte Larcabal, “A Call to Enlist and Gather Israel,” New Era, Mar. 2019, 24).

  31. Doctrine and Covenants 123:12

  32. Kilang 2 Nephi 4:27Mosiah 4:315:18Alma 46:12

  33. 1 Nephi 13:37