Called to Survive

March 9, 2020

This week was one of those weeks where everyday you get back to the apartment and you're dead tired, but it feels so good because you gave it your all in the work of the Lord. We have been stretching our goals here, and slowly but surely we've made our way up to 34 lessons a week, which is a lot because of how few people are here and how rural the area is! The Lord has definitely been blessing us!

Funny story that happened this last week:

We were searching for this referral that we got from a member (who lives the farthest away of the active members) and we finally found her house. We taught a great lesson with the member present, and then the member told us that we should visit this less active member. I asked where she lived and the member, pointing to a distant hill, said, "just over that hill". She told us that her house was next to the tree - which was a terrible marker because there was a ton of trees and it was far away. But we bid her farewell and set out to make the journey. We got over the hill, just to find 10 more hills and no houses?! Haha we were so confused and just kept going where we thought the house was.

We eventually ended up in barb wire cage with a bunch of cows?? Then we had to army crawl under the barb wire, hike some more, just to find out we were in another one! We couldn't army crawl under this one, but we did find a nice tree to climb and make an impressive dismount over the fence. We were lost. I was prepared to use every Bear Grylls tip I've ever learned, because we were starving and out of water, with not a single person in sight. Finally we spot a house, just to find out that... NO ONE IS THERE! We are feeling pretty defeated at this point and we start walking to where we think might lead us back to the highway, when all of the sudden we hear a yell towards us. We look and it's a lady waving! We go to her and find out that she was the one we were looking for the whole time! We shared a nice message and she was nice enough to give us a lot of water! We then took an hour walk back to our next appointment! What an experience haha!

Just a quick thought from my personal study the other day in Alma 37:17

"For he will fulfil all his promises which he shall make unto you, for he has fulfilled his promises which he has made unto our fathers." Hit me pretty hard that every single promise the Lord has ever made in all of holy writ and through the mouth of His prophets, will absolutely be fulfilled! I've decided that I want to become more familiar with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ's promises and strengthen my trust that they will be fulfilled. I invite you all to do the same. :)

 We were teaching a lesson and these 2 little girls kept looking at my name tag and then hiding behind my chair. When the lesson was over I found out that they drew my name in the dirt! You can't really see it but it's the thought that counts!