Not too much happened this week but we did have the ryals hang out with another family in our ward, the killebrews, twice! The first time we were there and it was really fun! They got along really well so now the ryals will be a lot more comfortable coming to church! The second time they hung out it went pretty well too except sister killebrew said that they have been looking up stuff about the church which always leads to anti-mormon sites so we will have to talk to them about that... but other than that everything is going great!
We couldn't get anyone to church because we had stake conference which is all the way in Kingsland which is almost 2 hours a way so the ryals said they will come next week. We talked to Franny for only a little bit because she is about to have a baby so she has been pretty busy with various things. She is still very interested in learning more and coming to church though!
At stake conference there was a member of the Area Seventy there, Elder Patrick. He gave a really good talk on faith. He talked about the Israelites right before they went to take over the city of Jericho and how they all looked to Joshua to tell them what they should do. Joshua told them they were going to circle the walls of the city once a day until the seventh day they would do it 3 times and then blow some trumpets and yell really loud and then the walls will come down. Imagine what the Israelites thought when he said that! Thats really crazy! But they should there faith and trust in the prophet and followed his word even though it seemed very crazy and impossible. He related that to our lives how we need to always follow the words of the prophets no matter how crazy it may sound and have faith that everything will work out in the end. We may always be going to church learning the same things over and over again but if we show our faith and diligently follow God's commandments by going to church then we will receive our reward whatever it may be. It was a super good talk and really helped me realize how powerful faith is.
I hope y'all have had a great summer! It's coming to an end! About one month left! I'm really excited for it to get a little cooler! I love y'all so much and hope everything is going great!
Love,
Elder Plumb
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