Some Things Have Happened

Even though the work is rather slow here I try to do my best to not let that affect my attitude about things and how I write this email. Sorry for how grumpy I may have sounded in the last one. I'm trying my best to realize that not every area is going to be as good as others and that I should not give up on things just because it seems pointless.


I'm going to admit I have been rather lazy and less optimistic about the work in this area. It's been hard. We hardly had any progressing friends, everyone we visited either moved, was never interested in the first place or really wanted to distance themselves from the church. It didn't help when one of our top friends who was quite ready for baptism passed away last week. Although I had never got to meet her personally; I couldn't help but feel bad that we never kept in contact enough and even blamed myself for it. It's been hard and I gave in. I let all these things hurt for only the worse and gave up.


Something I leamed at a zone conference recently though is that we need to choose joy. I thought that was a good point. Maybe with all these trials and failures on my part, I forgot to choose joy. I forgot to look past my mistakes and all the situations and remember whose side I have been on. I forgot what I was out here to do even if it did nothing, I forgot to choose joy. This gospel is the peace and joy that we all need in our life.


That's pretty much been the week, we haven't taught any lessons, but there have actually been some people that might want us to teach them so I'll keep you posted on that.


Thank you for all the support. It has been much appreciated.


One way we've been trying to be better about working is that we went to some nature trails nearby and talked to all the people on that trail. Although no one was interested we really liked walking that trail and felt pretty good about ourselves and got some good pics.









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