And Then There Were None

I bet you thought this was going to be a story about 10 little Indians, right?  You will be sorely disappointed.

They All Joined Me Whilst I Was Pondering Life

Hello to all, I have lots to talk about today.

The District on Melted Ice

In this past week Elder Judd and I have gotten tons of work done.  We have gotten 4 more people on date for baptism, that's 6 people in total for baptism!!  Elder Judd and I have created lessons specific for the people we are teaching and boy did we nail it.  We now have 4 confirmed people coming to church along with others on the way, we are still working hard to do the best we can, but with how cold it has been in the past few week everybody has been getting sick and called into work to cover the people getting sick. We have this one person we have been trying to have a lesson with for weeks now, but each and every time we scheduled a lesson with her she was called into the her work (She works at the hospital, and she is in charge of assigning where patients go.  Right now the hospital is so full of patients that they have nowhere to put them. Some of them, I've heard, are being put in the emergency room lobby, that's crazy).

More of the District

In the past week we have been so busy, because we now don't have a car. We have to bike everywhere, and of course now that everything is melting there is mud everywhere and now my dry cleaning bill is gone up a little bit this month. It's not as bad as I am making it out to be most of my pairs of pants are washable.  We have almost biked back and fourth from first and fifth ward, and at the end of each day our legs are dead, not to mention my shoulder bag is 10 pounds, it holds but is not limited to:  two bottles of water one for me and my companion, 5 copies of the book of

 Mormon, about ten thousand pamphlets, five pens, a study journal, my  copy of the Come Follow Me, glasses case and finally a phone charger.  Needless to say, I'm prepared.  

The Damm is Melting

In this past week we street contacted 3 separate people. The first of which was an almost drunk guy trying to turn off his parking lights.  His car was a Subaru. That was the first problem we found. The second was that this model was weird and had a special parking light hiding behind the wheel of the car.  After trying to find the problem for about five minutes, we told him that we might find the problem in the user manual. So we all went inside his home with the manual because it was cold outside.  While inside we found that he had gone through a phase where he (literally) tried every religion out there. After we listened to his story we found the solution to fix his problem. In the user manual switch was just a small and simple push of a button. He then told us that he thought himself spiritual, but not wanting to join organized religion.  After the fact, we testified that he will be able to get that spiritual connection if he were to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. 

There Used to Be Giant Icesicles

On the way to a member dinner we had lined up, we met a guy who was loading up his car.  After a quick word, we found that he was from Vegas and was in northern Idaho to get to a quiet place with less "sinning" around him.  He turned out to be a nice guy, he gave us a couple cans of root beer and we continued to talk in his driveway. We found most of what he

 knows about religion was learned from the history channel. We taught him a few things about the gospel of Jesus Christ, left him a copy of the Book of Mormon and told him to read a few chapters and pray about them.

After that member dinner my companion and I went to our district Come Follow Me session (they don't really set aside a time for us to do that so we scheduled it into our days).  On the way back from that session we found a nice lady trying to break into her own house (she was struggling with her keys).  We did not have too much time to talk with her but we left her with, you guessed it a Book of Mormon to read and pray about.

Don't think we didn't have them read and pray about the Book of Mormon and not schedule return appointments with them because we did, and we are going to be more busy than before.

Scripture time:

In Alma 56 Helaman is tricking Lamanites into chasing his small army.  He had lead them away from their stronghold and into a trap set for them. Sometime during this chase, the Lamanites realized they themselves were being followed by another army of Nephites, so they began chasing Helaman in hopes to destroy the small army and then turn their full attention to the army following them. There is what both Helaman and the Lamanites realized during the chase

40 Now they durst not turn to the right nor to the left lest they should be surrounded; neither would I turn to the right nor to the left lest they should overtake me, and we could not stand against them, but be slain, and they would make their escape; and thus we did flee all that day into the wilderness, even until it was dark.

In that time they could do nothing but continue forward to keep from being overtaken by the Lamanite army.  We ourselves have times where we need to continue forward  towards Christ with all our might, we need to stay firm and not turn to the left or the right, lest we will be overwhelmed by the adversary. And if you ever find yourself going the wrong way, Repent.  Did you know the old translation for repent was Turn Around, so if you find yourself going in the wrong direction, Turn around.