Devon - week 60 TRUST

This week has been a stressful week but everything worked out in the end.  First we taught the three commandments that most people have a problem with to Veronica, which are Word of wisdom, Law of Chasity, and the Law of Tithing.  So i was stressed about it because if she had a problem with one of those then we would have had to push the baptism date back.  Everything went great and now we just have to do the finishing touches on the baptism program.  

We were trying to teach Noen more often so we sent a text to his farther.  Sadly his farther texted us that Noen will not be taking the lessons anymore at the time being.  That was really depressing but I believe that missionaries will be able to teach him in the future.

This week and these next weeks we are going to put extra time in making our teaching pool bigger.  If we want more people to teach then we need to talk to more people and that's what we are going to do.  We have been having better ward council after President Winder's Training.  We have gone the extra mile to get members in the ward council more involved in the missionary work. Whenever the Ward council wants us to visit someone most missionaries contact the people that week and most of those contacts happen early in the week.  We now have been informing the ward council member/s the day of when we contacted the person.  It’s a small thing but it makes a difference. It shows the Bishop and the ward council that we will do what they ask, we do it fast, and that we are focus and work hard. There has been great blessing from this.  

The funny thing is that we go to try and meet the people that the ward council tell us to and they don’t live there anymore.  However, we have had great talks with the people that now live there and hopefully they can become investigators.  We hope that we will get some more new investigators from it.

We were so happy to see Veronica at church this week.  I get a little stressed when it’s an investigators first time at church because I really want them to have a great first experience at church. On this Sunday we had to go to two ward councils.  The second ward council happened during the second block of church or during gospel principles class.  So we couldn't be there in that class with her.  I want to make sure that Veronica made it to gospel principles.  Elder Belden said we should have a member take her so that we make it to ward council on time and Veronica could meet some ward members.  He said it would be killing two birds with one stone.  His logic mad scene so we went with it.  We ask Br Nguyen (Wind) to take her since his wife teaches that class and because he is an awesome member.  After we and the ward council talked about missionary work we were allowed to leave so we went to gospel principles class to be with Veronica.  We found out that an older sister of the ward intervened and told Br Nguyen that she would take her.  Well she took her to Gospel Doctrine!!!   What make it worse is that I already knew what gospel principles lesson was, it was about baptism!!!   We didn't change the scheduled it just happen that that was the lesson that week.  So I was excited about it because it would be a perfect lesson for Veronica that is about to be baptized. However, she learned about Stephen and how he was martyred. So my plans for church failed.  If any of you know me you know that I don’t like my plans to fail especially ones that I can control.  The lesson in this is not to not trust others and do everything yourself but, it is do your best with the circumstances and to Trust in the Lord.  My stress did not leave me until I turned my thoughts to the Lord and thought maybe this was the Lords will and I also remembered that the Lord is always there to help us especially when things don’t go the right way.

She enjoyed Church.