Reaching out to help people with rough lives...

Hello Everybody!

     This week was pretty crazy, honestly... Lots of things happening! I took a night and wrote in my journal a list of all of the different activities that we did that day, then compared it to a list of the things that I did generally in a busy day at Lawrence. We do so much every day... It was crazy to compare, actually. No wonder we're drop dead exhausted every single night when we get in!

This week was hard in some ways - we had a few really great investigators who we met with often and just LOVED teaching, and all 4 of them were on track for being baptized this month or next month, but we had to refer them to missionaries in other areas. Church buildings and congregations are geographic, so there are area boundaries for the people that we meet with, and if they move out of our area, then they go to a different church building and meet with different missionaries.

      So that was sad because Elder Willets and I really love them and it was sad to see them go! But that means that we get to work super hard and find new people this week, which is one of my favorite things to do. I love talking to people at doorsteps and on the street because it's just really fun to see how to teach the message of Christ's restored gospel  effectively over busy street traffic, lawn mowers, them washing their car, or while they're raking. Fun times :)

This week was a big growing experience - one of our investigators, Darrell, has been going through a ton and has just had a crazy hard life. After a really intense meeting on Friday night, Elder Willets and I just got home and were thinking "What on earth are we trying to do helping these people who have had decades of struggles that we can't even totally imagine? How can we possibly fix their lives when so much needs fixing?"  But it's comforting to see that all we can do, and have to do, is point them to Christ and He'll do the fixing. And I really have faith that He will "fix" and build up every single person who turns to him.

Here's a picture of  me and our investigator Darrell...

Love you all lots! It was pretty chilly biking on Saturday so we had to put on sweaters - it was in the 60's. ;)