General Conference was AMAZZZING!! Seriously everything was so simple and to the point and bold and exactly what I needed to hear.
We got to watch the morning sessions with the cutest little S family.
I miss children so dang much! Being with their family is just pure fun.
This week we brought a girl out with us for a day that's suuuuuper shy. She's planning on serving a mission so we've been taking her out with us in order to prepare. Anyway we stopped by this person but they weren't home so I felt like we should knock on their neighbor (but each house is forever away from each other out here in the boonies so we drove over there). When we parked there was someone outside on the phone. We said hi to him a few times but he ignored us, so we thought we'd go to the next house and come back, hoping he'd be off the phone by the time we come back. Anyway their neighbor didn't answer either so we started heading back to the phone guy's house where we left our car. Three people started walking angrily from his house toward us yelling, "Is that your car?!" I didn't want to yell so I jogged up closer to them and said, "Yes that's ours! We didn't want to interrupt your phone call so we thought we'd talk to your neighbor and come back," acting super happy like I didn't know they wanted us dead. Then they went off about how inconsiderate it is to leave your car at someone's house and they said we ran over their hose. So I was just apologizing like crazy and asked if there's anything we could do to make it up and the one guy started to feel bad so he was just like, "You should probably just leave." So we left. But the next day we went to Walmart and bought a new hose and a cake and wrote an apology note and left it on their porch and ran. They ended up texting us accepting our apology and said, "God bless you," at the end of the text! So honestly I think that was so meant to be because the member we brought with us needs to experience a few things like this before the mission field hits. And she was able to see how much their anger changed when we apologized with a new hose and some cake! (Also we left a gift receipt for the hose bc their hose was rubber and unharmed.) So we were totally prompted to go there for a reason!
J is progressing toward baptism on the 29th! He's only 13 and he's wanting to know what's true. I read this talk this morning that addresses the importance of searching for truth both early on in life and early on in the day. It includes this quote from Proverbs: “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me," then says, "That is as true of a day as it is of a life. A morning prayer and an early search in the scriptures to know what we should do for the Lord can set the course of a day. We can know which task, of all those we might choose, matters most to God and therefore to us. I have learned such a prayer is always answered if we ask and ponder with childlike submission, ready to act without delay to perform even the most humble service." I really like that because sometimes we're like, "Oh I'll probably go to church and do church things when I'm older [or later in the day] and have nothing better to do," but when we search for him early it's jut way better! So J is really cool and he's on the right track!
That's all for now. Have a grand week!
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