Transfers this week! Always exciting. Sister R is my new companion and she's wonderful. :)
Well, yesterday a member referral and one of our most positive investigators, and also a good friend, dropped us. We met her husband earlier this week and that went well at the time, but apparently afterwards he looked up more things on the internet, got into some anti material, and decided that he didn't want her to have anything to do with the church anymore. She went to church yesterday anyway when he was sleeping, but that didn't go over well. Her choice now is him or the church, and being a foreigner who moved here only about 6 months ago, she doesn't really have any options. But we will all be praying and I'm sure someday his heart will be softened.
On the bright side, this week we had a really good super-member-present lesson with the girl we taught last week. It was really cool to see what a difference feeling the Spirit is making in her life. She had been going through a hard time before she started coming again, but she loves the church now and the feelings she gets from living the gospel, essentially. The gospel changes lives, and it makes all the difference in the world! Most people think that they don't need anything more than what they have. But they have absolutely no idea what they are missing out on.
On Tuesday Elder Enslow gave a really good district meeting about Mormon. It really puts the rest of the Book of Mormon into perspective to look at Mormon's life. Towards the end of his life, he had lost everything. During most of his life all of the wars and wickedness occurring gave little reason to hope for anything. In fact, at one point he said that he had no hope for his people. And yet he kept going. He kept fighting. He kept loving the people. And in the meantime, he compiled and abridged the Book of Mormon, plus contributed some of the most powerful doctrinal discourses in the book. He knew that the people wouldn't repent. But he still never gave up. Why? Because he had a deep and abiding hope in Jesus Christ, His Atonement, and His Resurrection. Mormon didn't have any converts. He read and wrote about the great prophet-missionaries like Ammon, Alma, and Nephi and Lehi, who converted entire nations--but never saw physically the fruits of his labors. And yet, without Mormon, the world would not be the same. I would not be here, doing what I love most, without him. What he did and contributed changed my life and those of countless people through all eternity. That is a greater perspective. I do not have all of the answers to why certain things happen in life. But I do know that my testimony of Jesus Christ makes everything else not only bearable, but worth it.
Well, yesterday a member referral and one of our most positive investigators, and also a good friend, dropped us. We met her husband earlier this week and that went well at the time, but apparently afterwards he looked up more things on the internet, got into some anti material, and decided that he didn't want her to have anything to do with the church anymore. She went to church yesterday anyway when he was sleeping, but that didn't go over well. Her choice now is him or the church, and being a foreigner who moved here only about 6 months ago, she doesn't really have any options. But we will all be praying and I'm sure someday his heart will be softened.
On the bright side, this week we had a really good super-member-present lesson with the girl we taught last week. It was really cool to see what a difference feeling the Spirit is making in her life. She had been going through a hard time before she started coming again, but she loves the church now and the feelings she gets from living the gospel, essentially. The gospel changes lives, and it makes all the difference in the world! Most people think that they don't need anything more than what they have. But they have absolutely no idea what they are missing out on.
On Tuesday Elder Enslow gave a really good district meeting about Mormon. It really puts the rest of the Book of Mormon into perspective to look at Mormon's life. Towards the end of his life, he had lost everything. During most of his life all of the wars and wickedness occurring gave little reason to hope for anything. In fact, at one point he said that he had no hope for his people. And yet he kept going. He kept fighting. He kept loving the people. And in the meantime, he compiled and abridged the Book of Mormon, plus contributed some of the most powerful doctrinal discourses in the book. He knew that the people wouldn't repent. But he still never gave up. Why? Because he had a deep and abiding hope in Jesus Christ, His Atonement, and His Resurrection. Mormon didn't have any converts. He read and wrote about the great prophet-missionaries like Ammon, Alma, and Nephi and Lehi, who converted entire nations--but never saw physically the fruits of his labors. And yet, without Mormon, the world would not be the same. I would not be here, doing what I love most, without him. What he did and contributed changed my life and those of countless people through all eternity. That is a greater perspective. I do not have all of the answers to why certain things happen in life. But I do know that my testimony of Jesus Christ makes everything else not only bearable, but worth it.
Have a great week!
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