This was a rather fast week, so I will share only a couple of highlights:
On Tuesday we had a good lesson with two boys, who are
the children of less actives, and it was pretty good minus the fact that
their younger sister was trying to get all the attention. So that kind of
made things a little more difficult, but we got them started. The next
thing was we had a member come out and the people we would normally see
with him weren't home, and things fell through but we were able to get in
to teach another potential family which had been taught by the
missionaries in the past and we were able to get their interest back. So
now they will be our new investigators. So that will be good. We had
some other lessons this week with the big theme on the Atonement and how
it can help us to overcome all challenges and trials. Those were very
powerful lesson and very spiritual.
One of the crazy stories of the week was, we were
passing by an investigator's house and a dog had just attacked the
investigator's cat. We helped look for the cat for a bit and things were
crazy. We stopped by later to see if the cat was okay. He was and
the police were now involved, and that is good and bad. The cool
thing was even though we did not see our investigator, just his brother
and the brother's girlfriend. He knew we had stopped by and that we were
still thinking about him and he said in effect, because I don't remember
the exact words, "Whenever I have prayed for guidance the past couple
years you guys have showed up at my door, and when I have been
questioning if God has been hearing my prayers you contact me, and when
everything seems to go wrong you show up and help out the best you can. I
don't know if The Book of Mormon is true but from what has been
happening, you guys being there for me and my family, says a lot."
The work of a missionary is hard. We are despised
and rejected of men. We walk somewhat of the path that Christ walked. Christ
warns us the path is difficult, but He also tells us it is well worth it.
This week has been both difficult and worth it. I am learning to
overcome and lean on his ample arm and I hope you can all do the same.
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