Hello everyone!
This week we had some more divisions, new investigators, and
some baptisms in our District. It rained for most of the week and we basically
had puddles in our shoes for most of the week, but it was actually really fun
because you could jump in HUGE puddles and it didn't even matter because you
were already soaked! Haha!
We got the chance to talk to our Mission president and his
wife one on one and got to ask some questions and get advice from them. One
quote I absolutely loved from Sister Tavares was when she said: "When you
can't walk, crawl. Do absolutely everything you can to keep moving
forward." We have been promised blessings from Heavenly Father but on a
condition that we will do everything we can to do our part. I remember one of
my investigators said that they will make the changes to live the gospel when
God wants them to. I remember thinking that good grief... God already wants you
to follow Christ. Just do the things! He just wasn't willing to work for those
blessings that come from keeping the commandments! He just gave up that
quickly.
I made a resolve to have the kind of diligence to just keep
going even when I can't walk. It reminds me of the talk given in general
conference a while ago that said "When you can't do what you've always
done, only do what matters most." We've been practicing teaching the
lessons in less than 2 minutes, which is quite difficult because it forces you
to teach the bare minimum, the bones of the doctrines of the gospel. I really
learned what is important through these practices!
Heavenly Father loves each one of us and he has given us a
plan so that we may be able to return back to him with our families. We have
the scriptures and modern day prophets to guide us and teach us how to grow our
faith and repent. We can show our willingness to follow Christ by keeping the
commandments and our covenants.
I challenge each of you to read the talk (I can't find it
right now...) and to try to find something in your life that you used to be
good at but have been slacking on
recently and work harder. We don't have a commandment that we can't follow! (1
Nephi 3:7)
Thank you for all your support this week! Have a happy
thanksgiving! Love all of you lots!
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