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日本語
編集室
2007年9月21日
English
I express deep appreciation to President Dwayne N. Andersen for allowing the publication of 37 excerpts from his autobiography. Several readers have expressed appreciation for being able to read these inspiring stories from this life. In total, Dwayne N. Andersen has served six missions (totaling about 13 years), four of them with his wonderful wife, Peggy. President and Sister Andersen have been a great blessing in my life. I served with them in the mission home for about ten months. I loved every minute of it, even (in retrospect) when I was chided by President Andersen once for not having enough tact. He was right of course. I probably still don't have enough.
We begin a new series for readers in English, Excerpts from the Missionary Journals of Elder Alma O. Taylor, the missionary who lived in Japan for eight and a half years, longer than any other missionary of whom I am aware, except for Paul C. Andrus who served three years as a missionary and then 6.5 years as mission president.
We are providing text as it was written when the strict spelling requirements of today were apparently not as important as they are now. We trust readers will find the entries both interesting and inspirational.
日本語と英語
自分を意識して行う奉仕には，それが何であっても，何か欠けているものがあります。十二使徒評議会に召されて少数ヶ月後，定員会の中で経験のある会員の一人に，自分がふさわしくないという思いを伝えました。すると彼はやさしい叱責を込めた，次のような洞察をもった答えを述べてくれました。「あなたの気持ちはわかるつもりです。でも，あなたは自分のことや自分の気持ちに注意を向けず，あなたのすべての関心を他の人々や，世界における主の御業に向けるように努めるべきです」Dallin H. Oaks, Pure in Heart,
There is something deficient about any service that is conscious of self. A few months after my calling to the Council of the Twelve, I expressed my feelings of inadequacy to one of the senior members of my quorum. He responded with this mild reproof and challenging insight: "I suppose your feelings are understandable. But you should work for a condition where you will not be preoccupied with yourself and your own feelings and can give your entire concern to others, to the work of the Lord in all the world."Dallin H. Oaks, Pure in Heart,
「心の純粋さ」というダリン・H・オクス長老の本を買った時から２０年近くなります。その時上の文書を初めて読みました。その時からその文書を読んで、また他人に引用したこともあります。残念ながら、 奉仕する時に自分を意識する問題をまだ、まだ克服することはできていないのです。これからもっと勤勉に努めることを約束いたします。使徒同士の勧告をわたしたちに分かち合って下さったことをオクス長老に感謝しています。
It has been nearly 20 years since I bought the book, Pure in Heart, by Elder Oaks and first read this quote. I have thought about and quoted these words to myself and others since then. I am sorry that I still struggle with the problem of being too "conscious of self" in my service. From now on, I promise to try more diligently. I feel grateful to Elder Oaks for sharing this counsel from a fellow apostle with us.