On YouTube, I recently discovered a series of videos made by a biologist who is incredibly enthusiastic about his job. I loved watching his videos because I admired his passion. It was contagious, even. Watching his videos, I could hardly help getting excited about Boo Fish, how cyanobacteria (and other oxygen-producers) caused the first mass extinction event, and the discovery of the world's smallest species of snail. He made biology sound awesome. Maybe we should do something similar.
Our Elder's Quorum Meeting was about missionary work, and it was boring. There was no passion about the Gospel, no excitement about modern revelation, no enthusiasm about the restoration of the Priesthood, no joy about the companionship of the Holy Spirit. There are countless world-shattering truths in this church, and we aren't excited about any of them.
Perhaps we're desensitized to them. Perhaps we don't recognize how life-changing these truths are or ought to be. Perhaps we get so bogged down in daily and weekly church service that we have little energy left to get excited about anything, even the most noteworthy event of the millennia, the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But we need to get this excitement back. If we're not excited about the good news of the Restoration, our prospective converts won't be, either.
Passion is, generally, contagious. If we want to help spread the gospel, it might help to remind ourselves why we, and everyone, should be so excited about it.
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