Week 72. Bada ba ba baaa... I'm lovin it

 Didn't write in my journal this week sadly but I remember all the good parts. Here are the highlights:

Volleyball - instead of getting showed up, we just got canceled. The relief society was holding something so we canceled it. So hopefully this week won't be 0/3

District Council - we had it with interviews which was super awesome and nice. And it was honestly a good district council. I asked two missionaries to run us through a social media exercise and from that Harkness found someone and we referred him off to another pair of missionaries. It was cool. 

Zone Conference - the next day was zone Conference which was also fire. They talked a lot about the new focus our mission President wants us to have. It's these 13 methods of finding people to teach. It's pretty good. But the part I liked the most was when we split up into our individual zones and our zone did a blessing from a pen. I just call it a Letter to God. First I wrote Him my thoughts and feelings, then I wrote back to myself what I felt He would say to me. It was something I really needed and I was so grateful for it. 

Robbie -  we saw her that night and had an amazing dinner with her and Bruce. Afterwards we talked about baptism and when her's was going to be. We asked her to pick a date then pray to ask God whether it be right. We'll be asking her how it went soon. 

Temple - on Friday I was able to go to the temple again and do some work there. I love the temple and I can't wait until I'll have one closer to me. 

Splits - on Saturday we went on a 5hr split with one of the Spanish Elders. I stayed in our area with Elder Golden. He's a super funny kid and a nerd too, so we had a great time going out and talking with others and each other. A cool miracle is that at one apt complex we were knocking, this lady invited us inside to share a message and told us her whole backstory and how she is trying to find the answer about where Justice and Mercy meet. So we talked for a bit and left our number so hopefully she'll reach out soon. 

Random Lady - another lady who I forgot to ask her name. We met her before Christmas and she really appreciated us stopping by because she was in a slump. 

Fast forward to Sunday, we see her again and she is super excited to meet with us again. She did say she preferred the Sisters so we'll be bringing them over this Friday so hopefully all goes well. 

Spiritual thought - I just wanted to talk about what we shared with Robbie. It comes from Ether 2 and 3. God is leading a group of people to build vessels to cross the ocean. He directed his prophet on how they should be built and work, until the very end when they just had 2 more things to work out. The first was the problem with air since they were meant to be airtight as the waves crashed over them. The Lord replies and tells him how to fix that problem. But the second problem was how they were going to have light, to which the Lord asked what His prophet would have Him do. 

We can ask in faith and have our prayers answered, just like the first problem. But sometimes God wants us to learn and exercise our faith to try and come up with our own solution. The Prophet had such faith that not only did the idea he brought to the Lord work, but he had enough faith to see Him. 

If you're praying and not receiving an answer, maybe try coming up with your own plan and then ask God and listen how the Spirit directs. Answers come to those who not only seek, but knock too. 

Love y'all here are some pics