Snowballin'

May 23, 2017

There have been a lot of things happening recently. Like, a lot...

First of all, we have a new investigator! Woo! He is awesome. We've taught him twice-ish now and we've set up a time to have a lesson every Thursday with him. He's been progressing quite well and I can't wait to see how far he'll come with us.

We also met a guy who's not really interested in taking the missionary lessons, but he is super interested in the missionary program. When we first found him, he talked to us for about an hour, asking us questions, and he even had us over for dinner once! He also has a screen printing for T-shirts company that we've stopped by before. He showed us around and even offered to help us make some shirts on our P-day (today), so we'll see how that goes.

Also, shout out to my Mom who just had a birthday! 😗💨🎂

We have another guy who we've been "teaching" and he doesn't speak hardly any English. So, we've been Skyping with the Spanish Sisters in the city to teach him. He seems to be doing well, but then I have no idea. It's all in Spanish. 😀

We have consistently been teaching A. which is a miracle! We've recently talked about the Plan of Salvation and he's committed to read the Book of Mormon every day (at least when we remind him).

I really liked what Lia said about being brave. Something that I've experienced recently is that talking to random people is hard, especially on the phone (I just have trouble talking on the phone for some reason).

But, there are two things that can really help. One of them is just to "DO IT" and the more that you do it, the easier it is to do it again. The other thing, (which is even more important) is that we can ask Heavenly Father to help. It reminds me of an experience that I had once on a camp out. We were going down a river in boats and such. I was in a 2-person kayak and behind me was one of the leaders. Whenever we came to some rapids, we (me being a weakling) had to paddle as hard as we could to get through the rapids. If we stopped mid-way, we would have tipped over and would have had an amazing time dragging ourselves to shore. Looking back, If I didn't have help from someone stronger than me, I would have gone face first in the water several times. "Isn't that a metaphor for life?" It really is. Sometimes, we are too weak to paddle ourselves through the rapids. But there is someone behind us who can paddle us through anything, and all we have to do is ask.

1 Nephi 3:7 -- God will never give us a commandment that we can't achieve, even if we need help to achieve it.