Dear Family,
How goes it? Sounds like everybody is starting the summer out very busy already! Football camp and what not. That's awesome. This week was pretty slow for us. With the cold weather we are finding that the hearts of the people are becoming pretty frigid as well. We were pushed to our limits a few times this week. Some serious progress was made haha.
We had one of our best progressing investigators sent us a message this week saying that they didn't want us to come back to their house again. For no apparent reason. This happened on a day where we spent the whole day walking and knocking on doors and being rejected. I was pretty discouraged after this. I started to let all those 'poor me' thoughts in and gave more attention to them than to the thoughts i knew i should have been thinking and following. It was like i forgot what i knew. I started asking a lot of questions. Why is it so hard? Why don't people accept the truth easier? Why does it seem like Satan is always one step ahead? Why are there so many people here and just a handful that are willing to follow Christ? After about two hours of this we went home and i did the only thing i could think of doing. I prayed and cried. Then i went and started reading the Book of Mormon. After a while one of the District leaders called and i started to talk to him. I was joking around with him and told him that i had become less active. We talked a little bit and he read me some scriptures and i was feeling a little better. Then later that night i started to think about what i said about being less active. That is literally what happened. I had successfully taken about three great and spacious steps towards apostasy. I realized how foolish i was. It was like Satan threw sand in my eyes and then i just lowered my arms giving him as many free throat punches as he wanted. I felt ridiculous. I went into my room and begged forgiveness from Heavenly Father.
Its been a slow climb back up the mountain after that fall but i have definitely learned my lesson. If the enemy throws sand in your eyes in the middle of the battle and you cant see everything; you may not even know what to do, but if you remember whose side you're on and don't let your guard down you'll always come out on top. The very next day our investigators called us and asked us to come over, it turns out that they had gotten into a fight with each other and one of them sent us that message just to make the other one mad. They made up and felt very sorry for what they did and now are even more dedicated in making and keeping commitments with us. The wife, who was pretty weak-sauce called us personally and promised that she would come to church this week. And thus we see that the Lord works in mysterious ways to bring about the salvation of many souls. Alma 24:26-27 and 1 Nephi 8:5-6 Confidence!
Have a great week! i love you all! Confia nele porque ele nunca nos desamparará.
How goes it? Sounds like everybody is starting the summer out very busy already! Football camp and what not. That's awesome. This week was pretty slow for us. With the cold weather we are finding that the hearts of the people are becoming pretty frigid as well. We were pushed to our limits a few times this week. Some serious progress was made haha.
We had one of our best progressing investigators sent us a message this week saying that they didn't want us to come back to their house again. For no apparent reason. This happened on a day where we spent the whole day walking and knocking on doors and being rejected. I was pretty discouraged after this. I started to let all those 'poor me' thoughts in and gave more attention to them than to the thoughts i knew i should have been thinking and following. It was like i forgot what i knew. I started asking a lot of questions. Why is it so hard? Why don't people accept the truth easier? Why does it seem like Satan is always one step ahead? Why are there so many people here and just a handful that are willing to follow Christ? After about two hours of this we went home and i did the only thing i could think of doing. I prayed and cried. Then i went and started reading the Book of Mormon. After a while one of the District leaders called and i started to talk to him. I was joking around with him and told him that i had become less active. We talked a little bit and he read me some scriptures and i was feeling a little better. Then later that night i started to think about what i said about being less active. That is literally what happened. I had successfully taken about three great and spacious steps towards apostasy. I realized how foolish i was. It was like Satan threw sand in my eyes and then i just lowered my arms giving him as many free throat punches as he wanted. I felt ridiculous. I went into my room and begged forgiveness from Heavenly Father.
Its been a slow climb back up the mountain after that fall but i have definitely learned my lesson. If the enemy throws sand in your eyes in the middle of the battle and you cant see everything; you may not even know what to do, but if you remember whose side you're on and don't let your guard down you'll always come out on top. The very next day our investigators called us and asked us to come over, it turns out that they had gotten into a fight with each other and one of them sent us that message just to make the other one mad. They made up and felt very sorry for what they did and now are even more dedicated in making and keeping commitments with us. The wife, who was pretty weak-sauce called us personally and promised that she would come to church this week. And thus we see that the Lord works in mysterious ways to bring about the salvation of many souls. Alma 24:26-27 and 1 Nephi 8:5-6 Confidence!
Have a great week! i love you all! Confia nele porque ele nunca nos desamparará.
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