“Ngang I”
An Kraist tong—mi pwano non unusen nikitu ngeni mochenin kot—mi nukuchar me soposopono ne nukuchar.
Iei ewe ranin Sabbath, me sia chufengen pwe sipwe kapas usun Kraist me An irapengesino. Nge ua sinei pwe ai Chon Angasano mi manau.
Ekieki ei nikinik seni ewe omuchunon wik non manauen Jises won fonufan. Ew mwicheich a chufengen, mi pachenong soufiun Rome ren fochun mecha me ofout ren ketinas. Ra emwen me ren sou annuk seni ekkewe prist mi nap ekkewe mi wor tön non pour, ei tinikenin mwich ese feino ar repwe okkufu ew teninimw. Non ei pwinin ra kutta emon chok mwan, emon mwan ese fateno pwe mi uwou pisekin efeiengaw, kaeo pekin sounfiu, ika fifiu non ew fansoun non unusen Manauan.
Nupwen soufiu ra feito, Jises, non an achocho ne eppeti Noun chon kuno, a ipweu me apasa, “Ion ami oua kukkuta?” Ra ponuweni, “Jises re Nazareth.” Jises a apasa, “Ngang i. … Mwitir chok … nupwen a apasa ngenir, Ngang i, ra timarsefan o turuno nepwun.”
Me rei, iei ew me nein ekkewe mak mi omokutu netip me non wokisin pukefel meinisin. Me nein ekkoch mettoch, a ngeniei wenecharan pwe ach chok nom fan mesen ewe Noun Kot—ewe Jehovah mi napanap me non ewe Testamen Noom me ewe murinon Chon Masen siip non Testamen Sofo, ewe ese wor noun och sokkun pisekin efeiengaw—pwe ach chok rong mongungun ei Chon Eppet seni Monumon, a naf an epwe tinano chon ungeni repwe nikatutur ne niwinsefan, ochukuchureta non ew torongawen ioien mettoch, me fori an ewe kumi repwe aneanei pwe repwe fen ewis ngeni angangen non imwen kuk non ena pwinin.
Ekkoch chok ran me mwan, nupwen A tonong non ewe teninimw non an win “unusen ewe teninimw a mokut,” ewe pukefel a apasa, a eis,“Ion ei?” Ua tongeni chok ekieki pwe “Ion ei?” ina ewe kapaseis ekkena osukosuken soufiou ra eis!
Ewe ponuwan ena kapaseis meni esap non Nikinikin, pun Isaiah a fen osini arap ngeni fupuku ier me mwan pun “i ese wor napanapan are ningan; iwe nupwen sipwe kuna i, esap wor ningochun pwe sipwe mochen i.” Esap wesewesen foutochun ufan we are watten An pisekisek, minne ese wor Ren. Meni esap pwan seni ew sinenapen kaeo me non ekkewe sinakok pokiten ese wor ach pisekin pwarata pwe I a kaeo me rer, inamo nupwen an serafo A tongeni apungochu sou mak me sou annuk, a amairur ren An nongonong “mi fiti nemenem.”
Seni ena ossukun non Ewe temple ngeni An we wineni tonong non Jerusalem me ei pungunon, ese or popun arres, Jises a chok nonom non weires, nap ngeni nikinik mwakken non minne I mi chok wineni-winan ren minne ese or ach awewei chinon chok ren seni nang DNA.
Ngo fan non nonomun uruo chammong ra fen amecheresi, pwan mo akkukunono ach nengeni I me An pwarata ren io ososen I. Ra fen ekisatiw An wenechar ngeni mecheresin mi ngaw, An pungoch ngeni mechersin song, An chen ngeni mechersin watten napanapen finata. Sisap fokun tipis ren ach sipwe amecheresi ren ach anapanapa I ena a amecheresi ne emonungaw seni ekkewe afanafan sia kuna ese kinamwe ngenikich. Ei “akkukkunatiw” a fen pung pwan mo ren pekin An unusen awewen pungoch, An tong.
Non fansoun An missin won fonufan, Jises a aitikich pwe mi or ruu watten annuk. Ra fen aitikich non ei mwichenap me epwe chok feifeno ne aitikich: “Tongei ewe Samol om Kot [me] tongei chon aruum usun chok en.” Ika sipwe appiru ewe Chon Amanau non ekkei ru annuk mi auchea me wesen ririfengen, mi namot sipwe kamochunuk ngeni met I ennetin apasa. Me met I a ennetin apasa pwe, “Ika oua tongeiei, aponueta ai kewe annuk.” Non na pwan chok pwinin, A apasa pwe sipwe “tong fengen; usun chok ua tongei kemi.”
Non ekkena wokisin, ekkewe kapas mi fich ra awewei ennetin, napanapen An Kraist tong—fan ekkoch a iteni tong ennet— ir mi fokkun akkauchea.
Met ra awewei? Ifa usun Jises a tong?
Aewin, I a tong ren unusen [Netipan], an tongeni, an ekiek me pochokun, a ngeni I ewe tufich ne echikara anonnonun metek me kapas ennet mi weires. Non mochomochan, I emon a tongeni awora chen me pesei pwan ennet non ewe chok pwan fansoun. Usun Liai a apasa non ewe efeioch ngeni noun we Jacob, “Ngaseno a feito non me seni ewe Messiah mi Fel; pun i a uren chen mi ennet.” An tong a mutata ew etiwetiw nupwen a namot me ew kap mi kipwin nupwen emon a oromano. Iwe sia achocho ne tong—ren unusen netipach, ach tongeni, ekiek me pochokun—pokiten iei ewe napanapen An tongei kich.
Ewe oruwen napanapen An Jises tongen nang ina An aneasosich ngeni meinisin kapas a feito seni awen Kot, a awena An mochen me nikinikin ngeni usun An Seman non Nang.
Nupwen I a tori ei Epek ren Notou mwirin An manausefan, Kraist a apasa ngeni ekkewe chon Nifai: “Nengeni, Ngang Jises Kraist. … Ua fen un seni ewe kap mi kipwin minne ewe Sam a fen ngeniei, … non minne ua fen riaffouni mochenin ewe Sam, … seni nepoputan.”
Ekkewe chommongun napanap I a tongeni aporousa usun pwisin I, Jises a fori ren an affata An aneasochis ngeni mochenin ewe Sam—inamo ika ese tam me mwen ewe awan An wachemuken mochen, ei Anamon Noun Kot a fen mefi an Saman we a nikitano I. An Kraist tong ennet—mi weweoch non unusen nukuchar ngeni mochenin nangtiniken me pochokun ne soposopono, esap chok non ran mecheres me kinamwe nge akkaewin non fansoun mi rochopwak me watten weires.
Jises a fen “emon mwan mi netipengau,” ekkewe pukfel ra apasa. I a fen churi tipengau, apangapwang, tipengaw, Non ekkei me unusen fansoun, an Jises tong ese tongeni morono, me pwan An Saman we. Ren sokkun tong mi marino, me ennet—ewe sokkun a usun nenien appiru, apochokun, me awora—ach esap pwan morono.
Iwe, ika fan ekkoch oua achocho ne sotuni, nge a fen napeno weiresin oupwe angei; ika, nupwen chok oua sotuni ne angang won ami aukuk me nipwakingaw, oua kuna emon ika och metoch a mochen sotuni ami nuku; ika, nupwen oua nikitu ne angang, ami mi chok mefi fansoun nuokus a tori kemi, chechemeni pwe a fen pwan fis ngeni amwararen nikitun aramas non pekin fansoun meinisin. Pwan chechemeni pwe mi wor ew pochokun non fonufan me fan nang mi finano an epwe ungeni mettoch meinisin mi och nupwen oupwe achocho ne fori.
Nge, seni wouoch me pwan woungaw, non monomon me pwan esit nein aramas, non ewe manamanen ewe Niwinsefanito me pwan an aramas mwan minne epwe kinikinin, sia soposopono fiti ewe ennetin Mwichefenin Kraist. Pwata? Pokiten usun ren ach Chon Angasano, sia sain won ren ewe unusen kinikinin fansoun—esap muchuno ren ewe aewin mochen quiz nge nofoch ngeni ewe omuchunon tes. Ewe pwapwa non ei pwe ewe Mokurenapen Masta a ngeni kich ponuwan me mwen poputan ewe sukun. Soposoponon, mi wor chommong chon aitikich ekkewe ra achema ngeni kich usun ekkei ponuwan iteitan fansoun kouno won ewe an. Nge ewer, ese wor nein ekkei epwe tawe ika sia chok suseni ach klas.
“Ion ami oua kukkuta?” Ren unusen netipach sia ponuweni, “Jises re Nazareth.” Nupwen a apasa, “Ngang i,” sia fotopukutiw me pwarata ren channawach pwe I ewe Kraist mi manau, pwe I chok a achasefani ach tipis, pwe I a ekikich pwan nupwen sia ekieki pwe I a nikitikicheno. Nupwen sia utta me mwen I me kuna Kinasin non poun me pechen, sipwe poputa ne wewefichi met wewen ngeni I an epwe mwarei tipisich me sinei ach netipechou, an epwe unusen anneasosich ngeni Mochenin Seman we—faniten an unusen tongeei kich. Ach sipwe pwar ngeni ekkoch ren nuku, aier, papatais, ewe nifangen Ngun Mi Fel, me angie ach feioch non ewe imwen ewe Samol—ikkei ekkewe aukoukochun “nongonong me angangepin” ina a unusen pwarata ach tong ren Kot me chon auruch me pwapwaiti ne oununu ewe Mwichefenin Kraist mi pung.
Pwi me fefinei, ua pwarata pwe Ewe Mwichefenin Jises Kraist ren Aramas mi pin non Fansoun soponon ina ewe aan Kot a awora fan iten ach manau mi tekia fiti atongeach kewe. Ewe kapas allim a aiti kich ewe enlet, me ewe priesthood a fori an epwe ketiw esap afetena mei nuk non nenian. Ua pwarata pwe Russell M. Nelson i emon soufosun ach Kot a emweni ena Mwichefen, usun ekkewe akkom mwan me ekkewe repwe tapweto mwirin. Me ew ran ena ourour an soufos epwe emweni tappin aramas ar repwe monneta ne kuna ach Chon Kunon Amanau a feitiw usun “fifi mi fino fan nang … seni otiw,” me sipwe puchoru, “Jises re Nazareth.” Ren pau mi itiu feinfeino me tong mi ennet, I epwe ponuweni, “Ngang i.” Ua ennetin pwon non ewe manaman an aposel me mumuta ren Itan mi pin, Jises Kraist, amen.