Hello hope y'all doing well
This week was pretty slow as far as lessons or even generally meeting with people, so there was just hours and hours of knocking doors or talking to people in the streets. Not much success but that's ok we are always planting seeds.
We did have a few lessons with our friends that went well though. We went and talked to our friend Jessica's husband to ask if he was ok with her getting baptized (he is against religion). It went really well and she should be getting baptized soon so stay tuned for that. Our friend Daniel who has been struggling with alcohol was a completely different person when we went to see him this week. He stopped drinking and you can just see how much better he is. And we got to share more principles of the Restoration with our friend Abraham.
We also had district conference which is basically just stake conference for our area because we aren't big enough to have a stake. And for those who don't know what either of those are it is basically just when all the churches in the area come together on a Sunday twice a year and have a big church meeting with everyone together. Our area covers a lot of space so it is more of a big deal up here, some people drive 3-4 hours to be able to come. It was fun to see all of the other missionaries and it felt weird to be in a church meeting with more than like 15 people again hahaha. Jessica, Daniel, and Abraham were all able to come though, and it was both Jessica and Abraham's first time coming to church so that was cool to have them there. They both loved it so that was good.
Last cool experience from the week was that we had someone cancel a lesson on us so I just suggested to my companion that we visit this area that is kinda far away that we were already in the direction of. The area has some inactive members so I thought we might as well try and visit them while we were a bit closer. We called this old lady and asked if we could visit, and she said that she had started feeling really sick the night before so probably not. We offered to come and give her a blessing and she gladly accepted the offer. When we got there, she asked us if the branch president talked to us and told us to come. We said no and asked why and she said that she had called him the night before and told him how sick she was feeling and that she needed help. She was amazed that we just randomly showed up without anyone telling us, on the exact day that she needed a visit. It had been over a month since we had visited her and we came back on the day where she needed a blessing. Just a cool experience that shows that God cares for all of His children and their needs, and also a lesson that the Spirit sometimes leads us to where we need to go without us realizing it.
For my studies this week I have been reviewing a lot of the recent general conference talks. A theme that stood out to me for all of conference is that we need to remember our identity as children of God. Here is a few quotes from Elder Daines talk "Sir, We Would Like to See Jesus". "You may struggle to see God as a loving Father. You may look heavenward and see not the face of love and mercy but a thicket of rules through which you must wend your way. Perhaps you believe God rules in His heavens, speaks through His prophets, and loves your sister, but you secretly wonder whether He loves you. Perhaps you have felt the iron rod in your hand but not yet felt your Savior's love to which it leads … When prophets and apostles talk of covenants, they aren't like coaches yelling out from (red velvet) bleachers, telling us to "try harder!" They want us to see our covenants are fundamentally about relationships and can be a cure for spiritual face blindness. They are not rules to earn His love; He already loves you perfectly. Our challenge is to understand and shape our life to that love." God loves us perfectly and we can come to feel His love by living his gospel and turning to Him! As we turn our efforts to Him we will feel His strength and His love for us and for others in all that we do.
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