Tiepene Lap
Seiloak en Seri en Koht men
Kapokon Lap en Epreil 2021


Seiloak en Seri en Koht men

Ni atail wia seri en Koht inou kan, kitail kin poakohng, wauneki, apwali, pere, oh kasamwo irail ngehn kan me kin kohdo sang nan mour mwohn mour wet.

Emenemen kitail ahnekidier kahpwal sang ni soumwahu doar me kipedier sampa ni en atail peneinei oh kempoakpatail kan kapelsalehdalar ni soh kasikpe. Mweidehng ie ien kasalehda soang silu me kitail udahn wereisang, met pahn weliandi koaros me kitail kin keioun poakpoake.

Brother oh Sister Nsondi

Met iei Brother Philippe oh Sister Germaine Nsondi. Brother Nsondi me wia peitriark en Brazzaville Republic en Congo Steik ansou me e kapelsalehdala. Ohl menet wia emen toahkte me sewesedahr mehteikan ki ah talent kan.1

Clara Ruano de Villareal

Met iei Sister Clara Ruano de Villareal sang Tulcán, Ecuador. Liho alehda kopwurupwurdohn rongamwahuo ni ah sounpar 34 oh wia emen kaun kempoake. En liho peneineio kamwurala liho ni arail koulki koul me e kin pwungki, “I Ese me Ahi Soundor Ieiaste.”2

Ray Tuineau oh ah peneinei

Met iei Brother Ray Tuineau oh ah peneinei sang Utah. Ah pwoudo, Juliet, nda, “I mwauhki [nei pwutang kan] en [tamataman me arail pahpau] kin ansou koaros song en ale Koht mwohn mehkoaros.”3

Kauno mahsaniher, “Kumwail pahn kin kousonpene ni limpoak, pwe kumwail pahn mwahieikin irail me kapelsalehdala.”4

Ni atail kin mwahiei, kitail pil kin peren pwehki Iasada lingan en atail Sounkomouro. Pwehki Ih, atail peneinei kan oh kempoakepatail kan pahn tiala nan arail seiloak poatopoto. Ihme Presiden Joseph F. Smith kawehwehier: “Kitail sohte kak manokeirailla; kitail sohte kin uhdisang atail poakohng irail. … Irail tihenglahr; kitail wie ideidawehn; kitail wie kekeirda ni arail keirdahr.” 5 Presiden Russell M. Nelson koasoia, Pilenmasatail kan en mwahiei … wialhar pilenmas en koapworopwor.”6

Kitail ese duwen Mour mwohn Ipwidi

Atail wehwe poatopoto sohte kin kalaudehlahte atail wehwekin irail me wie seiseiloaksang nan mour wet ahpw e pil langahda atail wehwekin irail me sangkenei kan oh apwtehn pedelong nan mour wet.

Emenemen aramas me kohdo pohn sampah wia aramas kesempwal men rehn Koht.7 Atail seiloak wet sohte tepida ni atail ipwidi. Mwohn atail ipwidi, kitail kin patpene nan ehu sampahn kaunopada wasa me kitail “ale [atail] keieun kasukuhl kan en nan sapwen ngehn kan.”8 Siowa mahsanihong Seremeia, “Mwohn ei kihong uhk mour, I piluhkadahr; oh mwohn omw ipwidi I idihiukadahr.” 9

Ekei kak peidek ma mour kin tepida ni wiawihdahn serio, de ansou me mohngiongo tepda mwekid, de ansou me serio kak momour likin ehdo, ahpw ong kitail, sohte peidek me pid duwen ngehn en seri en Koht kan me seiseiloak dohngehr sampah pwehn ale ehu paliwar oh momour pohn sampah.

Ni atail wia seri en Koht inou kan, kitail kin poakohng, wauneki, apwali, pere, oh kasamwo irail ngehn kan me kin kohdo sang nan mour mwohn mour wet.

Sawas Kalaimwuhn sang Lih akan

Ong lih emen, nainikihda emen seri kak wia ehu tohnmetei laud ong ni paliwar, madamadau, oh pai kan. Kitail kin poakong oh wauneki lih kaselel kan en Mwomwodisoht. Ni loalokong oh marain, kumwail kin iang alehda lokolok kan en amwail peneinei. Kumwail kin poakohng. Kumwail kin papah. Kumwail kin tohnmetei. Kumwail kin kakehlaka pwoson, papah me anahne kan, oh kin sawas laud ong wehi.

Pwukoa Sarawi en Apwahpwali Mour

Sounpar kei samwalahr, kapatau laud mie ohng wen totohn neiohla me wiawi nan sampah, Presiden Gordon B. Hinckley koasoi ong lih akan en Mwomwodishoht ong ni lokaia me kitail kin doadoangki rahn pwukat. E masanih: “Kumwail wia lih pwopwoud kei oh nohno kei me wia kolepen peneinei. Kumwail kin neitikiedi serihkan. Pwukoa kouwahlap oh sarawi ehu mwo. … Dahme wiewiawihong atail kin kesempwaliki kesempwal en mour? Kawehla liseian wia mehkoat suwed, inenen sakanakan oh samin oh sohte pwung, me ikiparpesengehr pohn sampa. I peki lih akan en Mwomwohdisoht en kailongki, powehdi, oh liksang soangen doadoahk pwukat me kin wiahda en mwomw mwahu. Mwein pahn mie ekei kahpwal me kak wiawi, ahpw mepwukat kin iteiengete.10kumwahil me wia nohnon seri kan en Koht, amwail mour me inenen sarawi. Sinsile irail wia pwukoa sarawi ehu me kumwail sohte kak pohnsehsela.1112

Elder Marcus B. Nash soaiaiongie soai en lih sounpar 84 men me, ni eh ale kapeidek mwohn ah pepdais, “wehkada ehu kawehla liseian me e wiahda [sounpar kei mwowe].” Ni madmadau loal, liho nda: “I weuwahier katoutoupen kawehla liseian wet rahn koaros en ahi mour ki sounpar paisek-weneu. … Sohte mehkoat me I kin wia pwehn kak kasohrehsang ie medek oh pwunod. I sohla ahneki koapworopwor lau I ale kasukuhlpen rongamwahu mehlelo en Sises Krais. I esehda duwen koluhla … oh I wiahkintehiou ahnekida koapworopwor. I apwtehn esehda me I kak ale mahk ma I koluhkihla mehlel dipei kan.”1214

Ia uwen atail kin kaping kalahnganki kisakis sarawi kan en koluhla oh mahk.

Dah me Kitail Kak Wia?

Ia atail pwukoa ni atail wia tohpadahk kan en Sises Krais? Kitail anahne momourki kosonned akan en Koht, padahkihong neitail serihkan, oh ehukihong mehteikan me men rong.13 Kitail anahne ehukihda atail madmadau loal kan me pid kesempwal en mour ong irail kan me kin kaukaweid wehi. Irail ele sohte pahn pohnese dahme kitail kamehlele, ahpw kitail kapakap pwe irail pahn kak wehwehki kahrepe, ong kitail, me lamalam pwukat sipelehla dahme aramas emen kin mwahuki ong pein ah mour.

Ma seri sohkasikpe men wiawihda, kitail anahne kihda limpoak, kangoang, oh, ma mie anahnepe, sawas en mwohni, kakehlaka nohnou ni eh mweidehng serio en ipwidi oh peusehla ah seiloak nan mour wet.14

Lingan en Pwekseri

Nan aht peneinei, se inenen kapaikihda ni sounpar riesek samwalahro, emen serepein sounpar-16 esehda me e liseian. Serepeino oh en serio eh pahpa sohte pwopwoud, oh ira sohte kak kilang mwomwen ara pahn doudoula. Peinakapwo kamehlele me mour me e weuwa me inenen kesempwal. E neitikiedi seri serepein men oh mweideng ehu peneinei pwungo en pwekada serepeino. Ong Bryce oh Joline, serepeino wia pasapengpen ara kapakap kan. Ira kieng ede Emily oh kasukuhlihong ih en liki Seme Nanleng oh Sapwellime Ieros, Sises Krais.

Emily oh Christian

Emily keirda. Se kaping kalahnganki pwe Emily oh nein nait pwutak, Christian, limpoak pene oh kapwopwoudla nan tehnpas en Kauno. Emily oh Christian met nainkidahr pein neira emen kisin serepein.

Emily oh nah serepeino

Me keren Emily ntingiedi: “Nan erein sounpwong duwau me I liseianki, I ahneki ansou pwehn katamanda mwekid kan [en] ahi neitikdi. I medewehda uhdahn ei nohnou, me sounparte 16. Ni ahi kin kehn medek kan oh mwekid kan me liseian kin wahdo, I sohte kak sohte medewe uwen kahpwal me mehmen sounpar 16 kin sohpai. … Pilen mesei kin keredi met ni ahi kin medewe uhdahn ei nohnou, me ese me e sohte kak kieng ie soangen mour me [e anahne ong ie oh mweidada] aramas en pwekiehda. I sohte kak sohngada dahme liho loieng nan erein sounpwong duwauo—ni atail kin kaskasawih paliwere ah kin wekwekila, luhs sang kaperen en ah pwulepwul, nan eh ese me ni imwin doahk en limpoak wet, serepeino pahn kihda nah serio en pwekpwekla. I inenen kaping kalahnganki en liho ah pilipil mwahu, pwe liho sohte pilada en doadoahngki ah saledek en pilipil ni mwohmw ehu me pahn lopukala ahi mour.” Emily kaimwsekala, “I kaping kalahnganki koasondi sarawi en Sahm Nanleng, pwehki [limpoak oh epwel mwahu] me ahi pahpa/nohno kan wiahiong ie, oh pwehki aht peneinei kak katengetengpene kohkohlahte nan tehnpas sarawi.”15

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Sounkomouro “ketin ale kisin seri kis oh ketikihdiong nanpuwngarail; oh mwurin eh pwoalehdi kisin serio, e ahpw mahsanihong irail, Mehmen me kin kasamwo emen kisin seri [pwukat] ni mwarei, ngehi me e kin kasamwo.”16

Ansou me Ineng Pwung kan Sohte kin Wiawi

I kihda ahi limpoak oh sapan ong pwopwoud pwung kan me pwopwoudehr oh sohte kak nainekihda seri me irail kin kaskasik oh ong lih oh ohl akan me ahneki ansou mwahu en kapwopwoud nin duwen kosonned en Koht. Me apwal kitail en wehwehki ouraman sohpweida kan en mour ma kitail kin medemedewehte duwen mour wet. Ni ei wia sounpapah Kauno, I inoukihong kumwail me ni amwail kin pwoson Sises Krais oh amwail inou kan, kumwail pahn ale kapai kan nan mour wet oh amwail ineng pwung kan nan ansou poatopot akan en Kauno.17 E kin kak mie popohl nan seiloak en mour wet tetehn atail ineng pwung kan sohte pweida.18

Serihkan kin anahne atail sawas mwurin arail neitikdi. Ekei kin inenen anahne laud. Sang ni epwel mwahu en pisop kan oh sawas sapan en meirong en kaisihsol oh sawas ong kahpwal kan, mour en seri miliohn kei kin kapaida. Presidensi Keieu apwtehn pakairkihda me uwen tala miliohn riesek pahn kolahng UNICEF nan arail sawas ong sampa pwehn kihda doken silasil riasapw.19 Koht kin poakohng serihkan.

Koasondi Sarawi en Nainkihda emen Seri

Met kapwuriamwei pwe nan ekei wehi me inenen kepwehpwe, seri malaulau me kin neitikidi.20 “Kosonned en Koht ong Sapwellime serihkan en kaparaparla pwe kadaudokarail kan en kousoanla wasa koaros nin sampa wie manaman te.”21 Ansou da me pahn nainkihda seri oh meh depe wia ireh kei me pahn koasondi nan pwungen ehu pwopwoud oh Kauno. Ni pwoson oh kapakap, koasondi sarawi pwukat kak wia mehkoat lingan, oh kaudial ehu.22

I pahn ehukihda soai en peneinei en Laing sang Palieir en California. Sister Rebecca Laing ntingiedi:

Peneinei en Laing

“Nan samer en 2011, mour en aht peneinei mwomwen kaselel. Aht pwopwoud wet me nsenamwahu oh nait seri pahmen—sounpar—9, 7, 5, oh 3. …

“Ahi liseian kan oh neitik kan [kin] keper … [oh] se [inenen] kapaikihda nait seri pahmen, [medemedewe] me aht peneineio unsek. Nan Oaktohpe ni ahi rongorong kapokon lap, I kehn mehkoat ni sohte sapwung me se pahn nainkihda pil emen seri. Ni en LeGrand oh ngehi aht douloalli oh kapakap, … se esehda me aht pilahn weksang kupwur en Koht ong kiht.

“Mwurin pil ehu liseian oh neitik apwal, se kapaikihda seri serepein lingan men. Se kieng ede Brielle. Serio wia manaman ehu. Mwurinte en serepeino ipwidi, ni eh mihmite nan [perehn keneitik], I rong kepitien Ngehno: ‘Mie emen luhwe.’

“Soupar silu mwuri, mie pilehu kapwuriamwei, Mia. Brielle oh Mia wia irehn kaperen laud ehu ong aht peneineio.” Liho kaimwsekala, “Mweidong Kauno en kahluwa oh idawehn Sapwellime pilahn ong kitail pahn ansou koaros wahdo popohl me laudsang … doadoahngki pein atail wehwe.”23

Brielle oh Mia Laing

Sounkomouro kin ketin poakohng emenemen seri kesempwal.

“Oh ih eri ketin alehda neirail kisin seri kan, kin wad emen, oh ketin kapai iraildahr, …

“Oh … irail kilengdahla nan leng, … oh irail kilang tonleng kei pipihrdido sang nanleng … nan pwungen kisiniei; oh [tonleng kan] … kapelpene irail me tikitik kan, … oh tonleng kan sewese irailda.”24

I kadehde me pein amwail seiloak nin duwen seri en Koht men sohte tepida ong kumwail ansou me kisin ieng en sampah lel nan amwail ngolingol kan oh e sohte pahn uhdi ansou me kumwail ale kaimwseklahn esingek en nan mour wet.

Kitail anahne tamataman ansou koaros me emenemen seri ngehn en Koht kin kohkohdo sampa nan pein arail seiloak.25 Kitail anahne kasamwo irail, sinsile irail, oh kin poden poakehng irail. Ni amwail kin ale seri kesempwal pwukat ni mwaren Sounkomouro oh sewese irail nan arail seiloak poatopoto, I inou kihong kumwail me Kauno pahn kapai kumwail da oh kamwerehdi Sapwellime limpoak oh mweimwei pohmwail. Ni mwaren Sises Krais, amen.

Ireh kan

  1. Pein nah kisinlikou.

  2. Pein nah kisinlikou. Tehk “I Know That My Redeemer Lives,” Koul kan, no. 136.

  3. Pein nah kisinlikou.

  4. Doctrine and Covenants 42:45

  5. Joseph F. Smith, nan Repwoht en Kapokon, Epreil 1916, 3.

  6. Nan Trent Toone “‘A Fulness of Joy’: Presiden Nelson Ehukihda Padahk en Mour Soutuk ni Sarawi en Seridi en Nah Serepein, Church NewsSanueri 19, 2019, thechurchnews.com.

  7. Tehk “Peneinei: Kalohk Ehu Ohng Sampah,” ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

  8. Doctrine and Covenants 138:56

  9. Seremaia 1:5 Kadehde Kapw koasoia mwomwen Sohn Sounpepdais eh wie mwekmwekid nan kapehd en ah nohno Elisabeth ansou me Mary liseianiki oh kaskasik pwarodohn Sises (tehk Luhk 1:41

  10. Pwukoah kesempwal en Mwomwohdiso en Sises Krais en Souleng en Imwin Rahn-akan:

    “Mwomwohdiso en Sises Krais en Sounleng en Imwin Rahn-akan kamehlele me mour en aramas wia mehkot sarawi. Ihmekahreda, Mwomwohdiso uhwong kawehla liseian oh kin kaweidki towehkan en dehr pwungki, wia, kangoange, pwain, de sewese aramas en kawehla liseian.

    “Mwomwohdiso kin mweidada pwehki ire tohrohr pwukat ong towehkan ansou me:

    “Liseiano wiawihda sang ni nenek idihd de nenek nan pwungen peneinei, de

    “Emen semen en roson mwahu kasawiadahr me mour en aramas liseiano kak ahneki kahpwal, de

    “Semen en pali en roson mwahu kasawiadahr me serio ahneki soumwahu doar me sohte pahn mweideng en momour mwurin ipwidi.

    “Mwomwohdiso kin padahkihong towehkan me ire tohrohr pwukat sohte wia kahrepen en aramas pahn oudahte kawehla liseian. Kawehla liseian wia ire kesempwal ehu oh anahne douloalli mwurin en aramas me liseiano alehier kaweid sang kaun kan en mwomwohdiso oh alehier kamarain sang kapakap me e kak doula.

    “Mwomoshdiso sohte pwungki de uhwong kamwomwadahn kosonned de kemwekid kan en aramas me pid kawehla liseian” (“Abortion,” Newsroom, newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org; pil tehk General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 38.6.1, ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

  11. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Walking in the Light of the Lord,” Ensign, Nohpempe 1998, 99; Liahona, Sanueri 1999, 117.

    Presiden Gordon B. Hinckley masanih:

    “Kawehla liseian wia mehkoat kersuwed, mehkoat samin, mehkoat iou me kansinsued oh aramas kin kolukihla mehlel.

    “Ni aht kasohwe kawehla liseian, se pil mweidehng mwekid wet en wiawi ansou me liseiano wiawihda sang ni nenek idihd de nenek nan pwungen peneinei, ni ansou me mour en aramas me liseiano kak sapwung ni keseupe eh wiawi sangehr emen semen en pali en roson mwahu, de semen kan kasawihda me kisin serio ahneki soumwahu doar me kahrehda e sohte kak momour mwurin ah neitikdi.

    “Ahpw songen ire pwukat sohte kin kalap wiawi oh sapwungala iou ma soangen ire pwukat kin pwarada. Nan songen mwekid pwukat irail kan me loieng nan ire pwukat pahn anahne ale kaweid sang arail kaun en pali en lamalam oh kapakap kehlail pwehn alehdi kaweid sarawi mwohn doula” (“What Are People Asking about Us?EnsignNohpempe 1998, 71;Liahona, Sanueri 1999, 83–84).

  12. Tehk Neil L. Andersen, The Divine Gift of Forgiveness2019), 25.

    Ni ehu pako nan France, ni ansoun kapeidek mwohn pepdais, lih emen ndahiong ie me e kawehla ah liseian sounpar kei mwowe. I kalahnganki en liho wiewia mwahu. Liho pepdaislahr. Ele mwurin sounpar ehu, I ale ehu likiwer nan dengua. Lih kadek menet nan erein pahr mwurin ah pepdais alehier kasukuhl sang Ngehn Sarawi. Liho ekerie wie sengiseng: Komw tamataman ahi ndahiong komwi ei kawehla ahi liseian sounpar kei samwalahr? I koluhkihla dahme I wiadahro. Ahpw nan irair en pahr nekiero I wekilahr. Ahi mohngiongo uhlahngehr rehn Sounkomouro. … I inenen nsensuwedkihla dihp toutou me I wiadahro I sehse ia mwomwen ei kak komourla.

    I pehm uwen limpoak laud en Kauno ong lih menet. Presiden Boyd K. Packer masanih: “Kapwurehdo me ke sohte kak kapwurehdo, kamwauihla ohla me ke sohte kak kamwauihla, wiahda mehkan me ke kawehla oh ke sohte kak pileu wiahda iei me wia kahrepen tomw en Krais. Ansou me ahmw anahn teng oh ke men pwainla ahmw pweipwand’ [tehk Madiu 5:25–26kosonned en kapwungala pweipwand irihrlahr. Amwail pweipwand kan keseulahr rehn Kauno. E pahn kamwauihla nohmw neknek kan” (“The Brilliant Morning of ForgivenessEnsignNohpempe 1995, 19–20). I kamehlelehiong liho duwen limpoak en Sounkomouro. Kauno sohte mahkohngte dipen liho; E ketin kakelailihda oh kamwahuihla en liho pali ngehn. (Tehk Neil L. Andersen, The Divine Gift of Forgiveness154–56.)

  13. Tehk Dallin H. Oaks, “Protect the ChildrenLiahonaNohpempe 2012, 43–46.

  14. Epwelmwahuwi mour kan en seri en Koht kan wia pwukoahn pahpao. Pahpa koaros kolokol pwukoah en madmadau, ngehn, oh mwohni pwehn kasamwo, poakong oh apwali seri koaros me kin kohdo sampah.

  15. Pein nah kisinlikou.

  16. Mark 9:36–37

  17. Tehk Neil L. Andersen, “A Compensatory Spiritual Power for the RighteousBrigham Young University devotional, Oakus. 18, 2015), speeches.byu.edu.

  18. Tehk Dallin H. Oaks, “The Great Plan of HappinessEnsignNohpempe 1993, 75; pil tehk Russell M. Nelson, “ChoicesEnsignNohpempe 1990, 75.

  19. Tehk “Bishop Caussé Kalahngan ong UNICEF oh Tohn Mwomwohdiso pwehki Sawas ong COVID-19Newsroom, Mahs 5, 2021, newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

  20. Ni karasepe, ma United States kolokolete ah rekohd en sohte neitik sang 2008, sounparte 13 samwalahr, e pahn mie seri 5.8 miliohn kei tohtosang rahn wet (tehk Lyman Stone, “5.8 Million Fewer Babies: America’s Lost Decade in Fertility,” Institute for Family Studies, Pepuari. 3, 2021, ifstudies.org/blog).

  21. Peneinei: Kalohk Ehu ong SampahChurchofJesusChrist.org. Irehn pwuhk sarawi kan rekohdi me “Serihkan iei sohso sang Kauno” (Melkahka kan 127:3 Tehk Russell M. Nelson, “How Firm Our FoundationLiahonaSulai 2002, 83–84; pil tehk Dallin H. Oaks, “Truth and the PlanLiahonaNohpempe 2018, 27.

  22. Tehk Neil L. Andersen, “ChildrenLiahonaNohpempe 2011, 28.

  23. Pein nah kisin likou, Mahs 10, 2021.

  24. 3 Nephi 17:21, 24

  25. “Ni mehlelo, kitail koaros wie seiseiloak—kin kaskasawih mour wet. Kitail sohte ahneki kamwahu en ese dahme wiawiher mwohtail. Kitail anahne koate wahu loal kan oh lepin sed ilokin kan nan pein atail seiloak pohn sampah wet” (Thomas S. Monson, “The Bridge BuilderLiahonaNohpempe 2003, 67).