02/27/2017 - He Needs Us to Just Hold On for the Ride

Hello everyone! So, the warm weather is gone. It has been pretty frigid here. Like -8 on a regular! But it is OK. Next week will be colder but we get the car so that will be a huge blessing. Anyway, this week was my toughest so far.  It was up and down all week.

It started well. We did a lot more tracting since we don't have a car and tuesday we picked up two potential investigators named Karen, and Karim. We met with Karen later in the week but she was shoveling snow so we got to give her a short message and placed a book of mormon. She wanted to pay for it so that's a good sign that she really wanted it. Karim is a muslim guy, and was really interested. When we returned he wasn't home but we visited again and caught him in the evening. He told us he does taxes for people so he is super busy and can't commit to visiting until April. But we gave him a book of mormon to read and he told us he isn't giving up on us he wants to visit with us. So that was super cool.

Anyway, I am running out of time so I am going to keep this week a little short. This week I have read and re-read my patriarchal blessing, at least twice a day. And I would just like to testify to you that there is no greater comfort than knowing that God has a plan for us. He knows what we are going to go through and he needs us to just hold on for the ride. It's kinda that simple. Of course there are things he needs us to do, but even then he provides us a way to do those things. And that comes through prayer and asking God to bless us with the means and ability to change. Just like Nephi. When he was bound on a boat with a storm raging he didn't pray for the lord to loosen his bands, he prayed for the means so he could do it himself, he prayed for strength. And I know that God can give us that strength, that courage and most importantly he blessed us with the Atonement that allows us to have all of those things. So pray this week. Pray for something you struggle with, and pray for that strength to overcome it, and He will help. I know this to be true.

In a letter to mom:  Up and down this week. Toughest week so far. We did a lot of tracting with no car this week. And it was pretty cold. But it was good. 

I asked him what was his hardest challenge this week and this was his response:  

Patience. That is what I decided to work on this transfer and boy is it being tested. Tracting isn't very successful because people are flakey, so that was a test of patience. And my comp is someone I need patience with.  But I have been mostly frustrated with the lack of success. We have only had like one real lesson. Everything else is a visit or stop by or something. Never an established prepared lesson. Definitely patience.