Find the good in the bad

 

This week was full of long days knocking doors, talking to everyone, visiting all kinds of members..... with little to nothing to show for it.

There is a lot of things to bum me out,

But

Im not gonna let it!!! Because of 2 reasons

Reason 1!

This past week we visits

we had a great visit with Sister Bañuelos on her front patio, we presented something called the missionary member menu (something our mission came up with that has a bunch of options for members to help us in the work)

 

and she chose family history (ps I absolueltly LOVE family history) so we got her all set up on her phone with the family tree app

But! when we saw her tree, it was just her! So I said, Ok we got some work to do. We had her add her father and filled out his information, then the App pulled up someone who had all the correct information and asked us if we wanted to combine the files,, she clicked yes, then it took us back to her tree and there was a lot of more of her family visible, 

 

we showed her how to see the ordenances and i cant explain the PURE JOY she expressed when she found out a decent ammount of her family has already recieved so many temple blessings! We also found out her passed away parents and havent been sealed yet! So shes gonna go with a brother to seal her parents this weekend(because she is an older lady maybe bout 60-70ish and her husband fell aways from the church sadly.)

But she is now super excited to go and get her parents sealed!

The joy she expressed helped me feel so much joy, these feelings of joy and peace are only from the spirit, and strengthened my testimony of the power of the spirit

Reason 2!

I have faith that this week there is someone who is in desperate need to feel the spirit and recieve the gospel!

And even if we dont find them this week, it will be the next, or the next, or the next, but we will find them even if it takes the remaining 17 months!

All the rough, hard and sad times we have are forgotten when we have even 1 small spiritual experience

And through jesuschrist we can forget all the pain, guilt, and remorse that we sometimes feel. And through him we can recieve everlasting Joy and eternal life

I love you all!

    Elder Sandberg