7-30-12

Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well. :) Pressed for time, but here is a post! (madly copy-pasting from other emails) ;)

This week was alright. A bit rough. Some appointments fell out, which is always hard. We plan out a block of our time, and then take the effort to get all the way out there, only to have the person not show up, or not be home. We then resorted to finding. Walking the streets talking to people and looking up old contacts so we can go knock on their door and ask if they still have interest. Had a small handful of people tell us to come back another day, which was very cool, and we got a new investigator out of it too. He has been meeting with the missionaries for quite a while on and off. He likes his church, and thinks that our Church is very nice and cool, but doesn't seem to have any real motivation to change, or any perspective on whether our Church is the right one. We hope to be able to change that. ;)

It is always nice to have the time in the day all planned out with appointments. You just go from one place to another getting things done. Having blank time is hard. Talking to people on the street is a physical strain as you walk around for however long, and try your best to present this glorious message to people that mostly do not have time to talk, or interest in talking about religion. But sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven, and finding on the street does work. We have to bring these people the Gospel in whatever way we can. :)

Good scripture: Alma 37:36-37. Go look it up and read it before you continue to the next paragraph. :) (If your scriptures aren't nearby, lds.org has online scriptures. ;) )

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The part about watching over your sleep is amazingly touching for me, because I always have such a hard time sleeping, and almost always wake up with a mild form of dispair creeping in my heart. Feeling like life is unhappy and being kinda sad. I don't know what causes it. Normally I am not that negative. I don't go to bed that negative. :P But I truly have experienced Christ's protection. When I really focus on Christ and fill myself with Light before I go to sleep, and imediately think about Christ and the Light when I wake up, I feel so much better. I feel so much better rested, so much happier. I feel Christ's care around me, and know that He really has watched over me while I slept. When I really dedicate myself to it, I see wonderful, merciful results. :)

This scripture is also very straightforward and informative. I have it written on a little thing on my desk so that I see it often and think about it's council. I hope you can benefit from it as well. :)

Have a wonderful week everyone! I wish you all the best, and challenge you to bring down the blessings of Heaven through your faith and obedience. :)

- Elder Miles