What Is My Mission

By Hyacinth E Anyanwu

In the pre-mortal realm an investigation is made into the conditions of the human race on the earth, with specific emphasis on the needs of Africa. Upon reporting his results, Joseph volunteers and is called to a great work of redemption. After serious tests and preparation he is commissioned and ordained and sent in a spaceship to earth, to perform his mission.
Throughout his childhood, teenage years and beyond, the protagonist is searching for truth and the knowledge he pre-mortally held about his existence, purpose and mission on earth. The sorrows, grieves, pains and trials of life, the wars, sufferings, injustices and persecutions he experiences, form an important part of his spiritual and mental training. Through steady diligence and obedience to the laws of life, a man of integrity and virtue is formed. When the time is right, the knowledge is revealed and the real journey begins.

What is my Mission is not a fiction story or a novel, but a poetic autobiography and testimony that contains precious truths and insights about life and the purpose of existence. The sincere reader will be enlightened, strengthened and given pearls of wisdom to be able to navigate better through his or her life and towards greater peace and prosperity personally, in family life and in forming and influencing the communities and nations of the world.
Ultimately, we are all on our own individual quest to come to find the answer to the soul-searching question: What is my Mission?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456778583

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Foreword

My Journey to Earth

Introduction to my

journey to earth

The knowledge gained

Terms and symbols

Order of Acts and Scenes

Descriptions of the set

Cast of Characters

ACT I

GRAND COUNCIL AT WORK

ACT II

PREPARATION BEFORE THE JOURNEY

ACT III

THE JOURNEY TO EARTH IN THE

MORTAL WORLD

My Journey oN Earth

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

BACKGROUND HISTORIES

CHAPTER 2

MY COMMUNICATION WITH GOD

CHAPTER 3

KNOWLEDGE GAINED

Acknowledgement

I thank the following people for their various contributions to bring this work to light. I thank Tomas Kofod, for his initial comments. I thank Terez Nilsson, for her kind comments and efforts to bring the work up; above all for making the music to one of the texts. I thank Lisa Nyberg, for her suggestion to put VOLUME I into a musical play. Daniel Blomberg, for the interest he showed in this work and for his specific request that I should write the manuscript to be suitable for a play and music. Also for his time to go through the final manuscript and adding some professional touch to it. My special thanks go to Glen Helmstad, for using his time, talents and love to direct the play structure. I thank my daughter Julie Kittelsen for her inspirational discussions throughout the whole work and moreover for standing by her husband Kittel Heistø Kittelsen while he went through the manuscript for the final proof-reading. I am deeply grateful to Kittel for his invaluable contribution in providing the cover page material for the book, apart from the final proof reading and final layout of the manuscript before going to the publisher. I would simply say that I have cooked the food and Kittel has garnished the food. Of course, the final responsibility rests on my shoulders.

Last but not the least, to my dear beloved wife, Annie Sørensen Anyanwu, for the layout; and above all, for her patience, endurance and love that she gave me during the period of writing, and for her reading the texts for me to ensure that I do not write beyond human understanding.

This acknowledgement cannot be complete without the mention of two major actors that influenced my life.

My marriage with the princess of the god of the sea opened my intellect and zeal to develop my spiritual potentials, necessary for me to overcome strong trials in my life. My experience with my backpack from Nigeria strengthened my power and ability to conquer the world and its material demands so that I could focus on the more important things of life. Though these were factors of great trial in my life, they contributed to making my battlefield visible, for which I am grateful.

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PORTRAIT OF HYACINTH E. ANYANWU, LUND, SWEDEN, 2010. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ANNIE SØRENSEN ANYANWU.

Hyacinth E. Anyanwu, born April 9th 1936, grew up in a village in Imo state, Nigeria. From an early age he devoted much time to prayer and fasting. Since the age of 16, Mr. Anyanwu has had a strong desire to fight against human injustice. This desire has developed into an unrelenting drive to aid in the redemption of Africa from poverty, violence, war, corruption and immorality.

Educated in Nigeria, Japan and Sweden, and being a resident of Sweden for the last 28 years, both his educational, vocational and cultural experience and exposure has been great.

The process of seeking and receiving answers, as part of Mr. Anyanwu’s search for truth and righteousness over a whole lifetime, has been recorded over the last 40 years and has now finally culminated in this monumental work, entitled What is My Mission. The foundation for this book is a life of prayer, dedication, commitment, service, hard work, severe trials and glorious experiences.

The work contains precious insights about life and teaching of universal and eternal principles of progress and happiness. The aim is to realize and develop the limitless potential of the human race towards a happy, peaceful and prosperous life and society.

Mr. Anyanwu is a man who is full of love and concern for the welfare of others. His work will continue to influence for good many generations to come.

Mr. Anyanwu is happily married to his Annie. He is the father of five children.

Foreword

A few years ago I met the author of this book. It was through our common membership in Malmö Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that we came into contact with each other.

After having met and talked, I soon realized that my friend was busy writing two or three different texts in which he in various ways tried to summarize the spiritual experience he had through his long and event-ful life.

One of the texts was a draft for a musical about life’s journey. Another was a collection of poems. The third text was a record of personal prayers. These now all appear in book form under one title, What is My Mission.

During the time that has passed since we met, I have had the privilege to act as a supportive reader and comment and make proposals for minor adjustments to a number of different versions of the texts.

In reading the script for this particular book, I felt connected again with similar kinds of experiences, in-sights and wisdom, as those that I have previously found in great books such as the Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.

It is a book that obviously has been written to hold on to what the author has learned and been convinced of, but also that we who get to take part in his spiritual experiences shall become wiser.

Yes, I actually think you could say that it, like the holy scriptures, is a text that is inspired and useful for instruction in righteousness… that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2. Timothy 3:16-17).

Therefore, I hope that the reader will read the book to become wiser

Kind regards

Glen Helmstad

Nyhamnsläge, Sweden, August 3, 2010

WHAT IS MY MISSION

Volume I

My Journey to Earth

Introduction to my

journey to earth

After opening my communication link with God, I earnestly inquired about my standing in the spiritual world.

Why was I sent to this world at this time and place?

How did I merit coming here? Was it by choice, merit, design, commandment or chance?

What was the relationship in the spirit world between my earthly mother and me? How did it relate to my earthly father?

Why was it that I had to come to Nigeria in Africa instead of to another country on another continent?

I made these requests with a sincere heart and with a desire to serve and to strengthen my faith, and not for any selfish end. I have sought for answers to these questions for many years. I have fasted and prayed for long. Eventually, I started to put into writing the inspirations and thoughts I received around this subject that has resulted in this work, entitled My Journey to Earth.

The knowledge gained

As is demonstrated in this play, My Journey to Earth, I have gained the following knowledge pertaining to my above-stated questions, namely:

•   We are all the spiritual children of our Father in Heaven.

•   We lived with our Heavenly Father before we came to Earth. He trained and nurtured us.

•   We made choices based on our own free will. Our Father in Heaven, God, prepared and ordained us to our respective callings.

•   We received eternal light to help us in our earthly journey.

•   God cares about what we do here and how we do it, because He wants us to come back to Him.

•   He absolutely loves us beyond measure, no matter how sinful we may be.

•   God, in His wisdom and care for us, prepared and trained our earthly mother to take care of us here on Earth.

•   Through our earthly parents, God made it possible for us to acquire a body, so that we could come to Earth and perform our tasks.

•   God mysteriously combines our eternal being and our corporal being and enables them to live together in harmony by eternal laws, so that we can perform our duties here on Earth.

•   I have come to know the relationship between our earthly parents and us in the spirit world.

•   I testify of the irreplaceable role of motherhood in creation.

Terms and symbols

I have used allegories, symbols and arbitrary names in the presentation of the pre-mortal realm. The meanings of these things are built into the writing, so that if one reads with sincerity of heart and honest intentions to know and not to criticize, he or she will read to understand.

In the first assignment, it is noteworthy that God, in His infinite mercy, sends His angels to Earth regularly to help human beings and to find out about their welfare. He loves us, He knows our weaknesses and strengths, and He is there to help us if only we will repent, obey and come to Him.

Terms like the spaceship, the captain, and the passenger are symbolically used to show the divine role of motherhood in creation.

The heavenly realm and the earthly realm are used to demarcate the time when the child is given to the mother from the spirit world and the time when the body is formed in the mother’s womb. This indeed shows the great importance of keeping the Law of Chastity in order not to defile the vessel that carries God’s children to Earth.

In the Grand Council meeting, the names used are arbitrary. They portray the divine order of things in heaven. Both the laws and the authorities mentioned are true, as are the assignments given.

Throughout the two volumes, references to man or him is often used in the generic sense of the term man, that is, referring to any human being, male or female.

Order of Acts and Scenes

Act I    The Grand Council

Scene 1    First assignment.

   Song 1    Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

Scene 2    Report to the Grand Council

   Song 2    The Mercy Seat

Scene 3    Decision to send somebody to Earth.

   Song 3a    The Testimony

Act II    Preparation Before the Journey

Scene 1    The training camp

Scene 2    The commissioning

   Song 3b    The Testimony

Scene 3    The spaceship centre.

   Song 4    The Covenant

   Song 5a    Song of Faith

Act III    The journey to Earth in the mortal world

Scene 1    The fulfilment of the law

Scene 2    The captain’s monologue to Joseph and

Joseph’s communication with the King.

   Song 5    Song of Faith

Scene 3    The arrival of the spaceship

Descriptions of the set

ACT I    The Grand Council Hall

Scene 1       First Assignment

Scene 2       Report to the Grand Council

Scene 3       Decision to Send Somebody to Earth

The Council Hall is situated at the centre of the Heavenly Palace. It is a big oval hall, and beside the hall, there is a terrace. In the middle of the long side of the oval hall, a few stairs go up to the big Royal Dais. On the dais stands the Royal Throne, this is made of gold.

Behind the Royal Dais, there are three doors. In front of the Royal Dais, there are seats facing the dais, rising up from the dais to the back. The seats accommodate the Council members and other people who come into the Council Hall for meetings. The seats are made of a special wood that complements the brightness of the hall. A pathway in the middle divides the seats into two rows. The floor is made of amber; the walls are immaculately white. The ceiling is made of gold with a special dazzling colour. The hall is brightly lit from an indirect source.

ACT II    Preparation Before The Journey

Scene 1       The training camp

Green vegetation, mountains, valleys and caves surround the training environment. In the distance, there is a far-stretching and most dangerous desert. Landscape pictures projected onto a screen using PowerPoint.

Scene 2       The Commissioning. In the Council Hall

Scene 3       The Departure from the Spaceship Centre

A very large area is filled with