Pork Chop Pot Roast tho!

This week was pretty good! We biked a lot like usual. We talked to a lot of people while we biked. We are now teaching a lot of those people we talked to also! So that's pretty good! We had a great lesson with Terry this week too! I wasn't there cuz I was on a trade off with another missionary but Elder Stevens said it was really good! They talked to him about the Book of Mormon and how it can draw anyone who reads it nearer to God than by any other book. He really felt the Spirit as they taught him because he said he would read the Book of Mormon everyday! He's getting closer and closer to his baptismal date so we are very excited for him! 

We also finished our 2000 piece puzzle this week! Its super big and sweet! It took us a good 3 weeks to complete it but we did it! I also got sick this week so that wasn't very fun. I tried to push through because I could just hear my dad calling me a wimp in my head so I decided to push through haha! Also we had some lessons that I really didn't want to miss so we went to those which ended up going pretty well! One was with this guy named Pastor Chris and obviously he's a pastor for a church but he accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and has been reading it! He said he's been asking God for the full truth of His Gospel for a while and so we told him we are the answer to his prayer and we taught him about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how we know this church is Christ's church found in the New Testament once again on the earth. We told that by reading the Book of Mormon he could know that what we taught him is true and he said he would keep reading and pray to God and find out! He said he loves the Book of Mormon so far though and wants to preach out of it to his congregation! He's so awesome! We are excited to continue teaching him! He is definitely seeking for truth.

Something else that helped me push through the sickness was something I've been studying lately. I read a BYU devotional by Jefferey R. Holland called "Lesson from Liberty Jail" and it is a very good talk! It talks about Jospeh Smith's experience in Liberty Jail and all of the things he and those with him went through. It was definitely a very hard experience he had but he talks about how it was the trial in his life that made him the prophet that he was. He went on to talk about how we all go through very hard and tough trials in life that cause us to feel like God has forgotten us. But just like Joseph's experience if we turn to God and continue to have faith in him and endure then those experiences can turn out to be the most revelatory, influential, and life changing experiences of our lives. God gives us trials to help us learn and grow in this life because that is what life is all about, learning by experience. As long as we turn to God and trust that he knows what's best for us then we can endure through the hard times and really grow in this life. 

I love you all and hope you all have a great week!