So this week has been a week of
blessings and miracles. A lot of it has come from my triumph over the
natural man i.e. waking up right at 6:30
and staying awake. Now you might wonder why such a small thing would
yield such large results. I wondered the same thing for a long long
time. But, President Craig answered that question of why.
Doctrine & Covenants 121:45 Let
thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the
household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly;
then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the
doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from
heaven. 46 The
Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an
unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be
an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow
unto thee forever and ever.
So for
some reason this clicked. It just fit into place and because I now "the
why" I've been doing a thousands times better. Now, has it actually
worked? I would say yes. I've seen so many more blessings this week than
I have in a long time. A lot of them have come in the form of my
confidence waxing stronger and the Holy Ghost being with me so much
more. Other ways have been the blessings of getting a great referral
from our Branch President and still having investigators that we thought
had disappeared. Overall a great week for blessings and a terrible one
for yawning ;)
So now for a couple fun
stories. The Fort Frances Elders had a baptism in their branch and it
was great to go to :) Elder Tippets who had taught the family came down
and it was fun to catch up with him. It's great for their branch because
they regularly have only about 11 people who come each week 4 of which
are missionaries. We were also all able to go out to the island which is
always a fun time. The Zone Lords showed us a tradition that we missed
out on because we all whitewashed the area. That was skipping rocks. So
now whenever we go we make sure to skip rocks :D
Which
brings me to the next part. This last Saturday we had some service out
on the island which was a lot of fun. It's been a while since I've done
some good service. The first thing that we ended up doing was tearing
this chicken wire out of the ground because they had dog runs on the
island. The Sister would breed Huskies at a show level and had a few
places to keep them. The chicken wire was in the ground so they wouldn't
burrow through. But, because they were in the ground and had lake rocks
all over them it was a pain to dig out. Eventually I just got a bit
angry with them and started tugging at them which ended up working quite
well :) The chicken wire acted as a strainer for the rocks which was
great. While we were doing that Elder Romeril was out just chopping down
dead trees with a chain saw and making them into small pieces. He got
permission from President so it's all good :) After that we had lunch
which was great as usual and then Elder Romeril and I got to go
spelunking. At least it felt like spelunking. So because the house is on
an island it gets to bedrock pretty quickly and Elder Romeril and I
were the only ones willing to go under the house. I thought it was a lot
of fun honestly but we were tasked with insulating some pipes for the
water. I'll send some pictures hopefully if my camera charges quickly
enough. Overall it was a good day.
Finally while Elder Moore and I were mowing a members lawn we found a frog. Same as above sending pictures if I can :)
Overall I rate this week a 5 out of 5 :) It was a good one. I hope y'all have a great week. Potatoes gonna potate
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