Working hard and overcoming trials

The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes. Joseph Smith

We had a baptism. yay haha it actually went really well. Haha poor P. she's like 3 feet tall and weighs like 10 pounds and she had to wear an adult jumpsuit hahahah but she took it well. I didn't get to see the confirmation because we had an incident Sunday morning that I can't talk about over email but lets just say Satan is going after our investigators.

Actually we have had several incidents this week that are proof that Satan has to do his work too. When I got here we had nothing, nothing. So we started working really hard to try and find people and we found 5 really good families, we had really good lessons, they were reading the Book of Mormon, we had a lot of member support, and things were looking promising.

This week 2 of them moved to a different state and the other three have told us that they can't be baptized because they were born in their religion and they will die in it.... daaaaangit. Everything fell through this week EXCEPT THE BAPTISM THANK YOU LORD. So guess where we are again? 0`s man...

John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

The Lord Himself told of the power that Satan CAN BUT DOESN'T HAVE to have in this world. Satan has the power that we give him, and there is the trick -And has nothing in Me. Christ beat Satan because He never gave Satan even a little power to drag Him down. Satan can only hurt us if we let him.

We had almost 140 street contacts this week and lots of lessons and whatnot but as we closed the week, we realized that we gotta do more. If we don't put in more effort, if we don't try harder, then Satan is gonna beat us. God is more powerful than Satan, Jesus Christ is more powerful than Satan, representatives of Jesus Christ are more powerful than Satan, there is no reason that we are gonna lose unless we give up and call it a day until we get transferred. I will leave this area better than I found it.


John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

I can't imagine how hard those last hours must have been for Christ. He knew what was coming, and instead of being afraid, or doubting, or complaining, or preparing Himself, He turns to His Apostles and quiets THEIR fears, strengthens THEIR confidence, prepares THEM for what will come. The world hated Him first. This week will be a week of turning to God, working hard to start over again, and praying for miracles.