cruise ship

Helloooo!!!

I love serving in the Casa Linda ward here in Dallas. I've been here 4 transfers... hopefully i stay another! Our ward is so big they have to open the overflow area! There are 6 missionaries in our ward, with an older couple, the Goldings, who focus just on the inactives. It's so amazing how missionary work is such a ward effort. The ward im in now is really good at involving our investigators, and I think for that we've been so successful. Even the people we've dropped, the members are still asking us about. 

One investigator that we were teaching, Juan, a single old janitor we met playing racketball we had dropped for a while came to church yesterday. we had dropped him because he was just going to every church he was invited to, to look for a woman. and so we mentioned that in our coordination meeting and Elder Golding, the senior couple missionary said he'd go visit him. Well he went with another elderly gentleman and apparently hit it off pretty good because Juan came back to church! Missionary work is such a group effort... one couple of missionaries can't do everything. 

These past two weeks we've been visiting a lot of less actives... it's really interesting because all of them know exactly what they need to do. (and some of them were just waiting for an invitation back to church). Going to church is really a habit that is easy to get out of. And then our scripture reading and praying falls short... and then we just feel down and wonder why? Hna LeBaron and I love sharing this quote with less actives:

"When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance" - Quentin L. Cook ("Can you feel so now" oct '12 general conf)

It's so true. When we feel down or feel overwhelmed with life we need to take a step back and repent. maybe we havent been reading or praying like we should. the little things like going to church, reading our scriptures, and praying, make all the difference. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the best solution, it uplifts us and gives us hope. We are so blessed to be members of the true church of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we take advantage of the grand blessing and privilege it is to always have the Spirit with us. We should live so close to the Spirit so that we can recognize when it leaves.

I love you all! have a great week!

love 

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ps watch the mormon message "your potential your privileges"!!!! it's about the cruise ship metaphor. love it.