Dear Family,
This last week was a week
full of lessons, that's for sure. We didn't see too much progress in
our investigators, who didn't come to church, but overall things were
good. The zone has been struggling in May. It seems like we're
going to be ending it on a pretty slow note. The meeting we had with
the zone leaders yesterday was pretty inspiring though. We talked about
the importance of having real, honest desires to work and repenting
from our mistakes and disobedience to do better in the next month that
we have. Sadly, the zone looks like it'll be ending May with one baptism
among the nine companionships that are here in Corpus Christi. (Luckily
though, that one companionship was in our district.) But yeah, we
have quite a bit of repenting to do and I need to work on making sure
that I'm working with all of my heart, all the time. I haven't been
disobedient or anything like that, but I know that there's always more I
can give.
We read in that meeting with the zone leaders about
the importance of desire, and really how we can get it. I've been
praying recently for the Lord to help me to really open my eyes and
fully realize the importance of the work that we're doing here and how
much every person that I talk to needs it. If we could only realize
that we're employed in God's work and glory and that we're promised the
help of the heaven, our fears, doubts and reservations would flee, replaced by unshakeable faith in what the Lord will do. I know
that I'm not alone, I have the Lord's help.
On a random note, we just finished cleaning some
graffiti off the church. Some teenagers must have come around last
night. They wrote on the windows in Sharpie, "Hail Satan! 666!" and
other stupid stuff like that. It's sad the amount of ignorance there is
out there about the church and how low some people's respect is for
sacred things. It wasn't too hard to get off though, just some cleaner
and a lot of scrubbing. Hopefully the church will get some cameras here
soon or something though. But, either way, we know that no unhallowed
hand can stop the work from progressing! I love opposition, because it
means that great things are on the way!
I hope everybody has a great week. I'll be writing back next week with some miracles! I love you!
