Hey everyone!
We are starting to get
the winter weather here now. We are supposed to have some snow tonight and tomorrow so they want us home tonight by eight instead of nine. Then tomorrow we might need to stay inside all day.
I can't decide if it is going to be a really big storm or if they just aren't as
used to it so it seems like a lot. Can't wait to see what happens.
This
last week. We had some cool experience and some more growing experiences. Our
friend JR got to go to the temple for the first time! We had dinner with him
before he went.
We met a really cool guy
named Robert who has been baptized several times into different churches and
when we taught him about the priesthood he really understood it.
Another friend decided
she didn't want to meet with us anymore either. That was hard. We were pretty
sad having two people drop us in the last couple of weeks but it was cool to
see how the Lord truly provided a way. I love this scripture in Alma 26 verse
27 it says: "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn
back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the
Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you
success."
We decided to look at the
things we were doing and figure out what we needed to fix. We decided we needed
to be better about being on time. This has been a big struggle for me all of my
life and so working on it now has been kind of hard. I have decided that I will
work my hardest and my best while I am in an area and trust that the Lord will
have us be there as long as we need to be there. Instead of staying for an
extra five minutes to knock one more door. As we have done this we have seen so
many blessings. They didn't come right at first but as we kept working they did
come.
Saturday, we had a ward party and we invited one
of our former investigators who we hadn't heard from for a long time so we
dropped him for a bit. We turned around for a second and there he was! He came
to the activity! Not only did he come but he started to get to know the members
and said he is definitely interested in meeting with us! We set up a time for
this week. Not only that, we have had
several of the members text us about having him over for a lesson so that was
such a huge blessing. It was so cool!
Then on Sunday our friend Tony came to church. Tony
is awesome! He is the one that asked us for the pamphlet a couple of months
ago. He said, "Man I wish I would have come sooner!" He loved it and
he followed along in the booklet the whole lesson. He even answered questions
before all of the members. IT WAS A HUGE BLESSING!!!
Then as we were heading
downstairs at church we ran into a member and he said, "hey, this is my friend Joe."
Turns out he wasn't a member. We talked to him for a while and he said he was
really interested in learning more.
So in the words of Elder Holland: "Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness
ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late. And some don't come till
heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ they come. It will
be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come."
I add my testimony to
Elder Holland’s. I know that things do get hard and it's okay if we acknowledge
that they are hard. I also know that as we remember the bigger picture and that
our loving Heavenly Father has a plan for us, we will be able to get through
it. I know that this gospel is true. I love you all so much and I leave this
with you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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