So on Friday
we had a lock-down because of how bad the weather was. We were supposed
to have Zone Conference and they texted us in the morning that it was
cancelled and then an hour later the AP's called and told us that we
were on lock-down because of how bad the roads had gotten because of rain
and then 25 degree weather. It was a very boring day. It was nice to
have a day to relax but after hours of playing the same card games over
and over it is a little boring.
This past week
Elder Bean and I have been trying harder to get with less-active membersthat
have been active in the past. The most promising for coming back any
time soon is Sister Carrell. She is a convert of two years but stopped
coming a little before I got to Opelousas. Her husband is still very
active. We have been meeting with them quite a bit recently and I think
it is helping Sister Carrell. She said that she loves having the
missionaries over and plans to have us over to feed us. Hopefully she
will start coming again soon.
The other good
lesson that we had was with the Deville's last night. We taught out of
Alma chapter 32. We were talking to them about faith and how they can
work on growing their faith. At the end of the lesson Sister Deville
gave a request for next weeks lesson which is really nice because we can
have a focus on that topic the entire week and come up with something
that can be really helpful. We are really hoping that Jarrett Deville
will decide that he wants to be baptized. He seems to be getting more
and more interested now that we are trying to have our lessons more
pointed towards him.
27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.
I
am coming to understand more and more that faith isn't just there. I
have had to work hard to get the faith that I have and I work on it
every day. But if we are always willing to try and to plant that seed of
faith and to nourish it it can grow into something magnificent.
I hope all of you have a great week!!
