August 4, 2014
Cancer Sucks but miracles happen!
Dear
Man from whence I came,
So I've been thinking a lot about you
and I lately and I just wanted to shoot you a quick message first off telling
you how much I love and miss you:) I haven't had a lot of time recently to
write well hardly anyone. But I wanted to shoot you an email.
First off I am so sorry that this is
happening with your dad. I can't begin to imagine your pain. I could not
imagine losing you first off, and I'm sure you feel the same about your dad...
But, as a missionary it is my job and privilege to share with you the plan of
salvation. We are all going to die, I'm going to die, moms going to die, Jax
(our dog) is going to die, it's part of life as you know. I personally do not
feel it is grandpa’s time. Miracles do happen! My companion Elder Vasquez had a
lady he was teaching that had cancer too. She had been diagnosed with only a
few months to live and was concerned with her salvation, so she wanted to talk
with the missionaries and get stuff straight before she passed away. My
companion Elder Vasquez had the prompting to give her a blessing. In that
blessing he promised her a long life, and that she would be healed from her
cancer, he had no clue why he said that but was guided by the spirit to do so.
Well they left and came back to visit her a few weeks later. She shared with
him the following experience. She had an appointment to get treated again for
radiation, (it was her 1st time ever doing radiation) when she got to the
doctors and they were scanning her body the doctor said, "well your finished
with your chemotherapy??" she said, “no this is my first time…” and the
doctor responded with "well you are 100% clear of any type of
cancer"! Later they did more tests, and could not find a single piece of
cancer in her whole body. It was a miracle.
There
are 2 things that are necessary to have a real miracle take place:
1.
It needs to be the will of the Father.
2.
We need to have faith and hope sufficient for God to bless us with this miracle
because it will change our lives forever.
I feel and have faith that it is the
will of the Father that grandpa will be healed, but my faith is not enough for
it to happen. Grandpa needs your help dad, and he needs your faith. Grandpa
needs to have faith in God, not the doctors. It's way easier to have faith in
the doctors, we can see them, we can see them working and doing the best they
can, but maybe that's not enough. We need the help of the master, we need the
still hands, and mighty power of our Father in Heaven. Through Him all is
possible!
We can read in the Book of Mormon when the
sons of Mosiah who were rebelling against their father, an angel appeared to
them. Do you know why that was??? The prayer of their fathers, they needed that
miracle; they needed that angel to appear to go to change their lives. It was
all because of faith and hope that it would happen. God may have another plan,
maybe it's grandpa’s time, but maybe it's not. Lets have faith that he is going
to live! Because I feel he will! But it doesn't just depend on me or you,
it depends on many people, especially grandpa. He cannot lose hope! Neither can
grandma! Miracles happen, not just little ones, but huge life changing ones. Ones
that will leave us saying "God lives"!
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| Love hangin with my dad |
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Now talking about you and me. When I
get home I want things to be different. I want a better relationship. Not that
we had a bad one, but I don't think that it was as strong as it could be. I
want to have a stellar relationship, I want to go on trips, go camping,
fishing, do all these things like father and sons. You’re my example and I want
to have a lot of experiences together. I feel like we are short just a few
super amazing experiences. So be thinking about that cause its gunna happen
when we get back. Lets go to Alaska. Sounds fun to me, and it would be cool for
you to go back. I love you so much dad.
Your
son,
Elder
Rodabough
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