Working to bring the lost sheep back to the fold!
Hello everyone!
I love my new area! It is super awesome. with an overall population of approximately 13,000, its big enough to have its own branch and a chapel! We are completely surrounded by farms and ranches and stuff like that, so its really cool. And the weather here is slightly cooler too! Its just better. I love it!
This week when I arrived, I was little dismayed to find that there were a grand total of 2 investigators here. 2! (for those who don't know, 2 is a very small number). So we got to work. We spent the majority of every day this week contacting people in the streets and knocking on doors. And by the time friday came around our day was full of appointments! So we're starting from ground-Zero here, but we're working hard and focusing our efforts on finding new people to teach (because we want to baptise someone while we're here!). We met a wonderful family of 3 who live nearby our house too! The mom lives there with her husband and her son, who is 20 yrs old but paralyzed from the waist down and can hardly move his arms. We have a lot of faith that they will progress in these coming weeks! They are wonderful people and have a true desire to learn more about god and follow his ways.
Heres a scripture that I love because it just about sums up a large portion of our lives: Ether 12:27
"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
Thats why we have trials, and if we humble ourselves God will guide us. But we must remember: "when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise." DyC 82:10
So let us all be humble. Let us all accept our weaknesses and let us all try earnestly to improve.
Elder Phillips
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