April 14: Why Does it Always Rain on P-Days?

Remember those days where nothing goes according to plan? I mean, sure, here and there things get messes up, people are late, you are late, things fall out, investigators don't show up to church?

Well, imagine those days... Now imagine a week of it. 

I would guess that about 75% of all of our lessons this week fell out. I haven't counted it yet, nor do I really want to, but welcome to missionary life!!!

Haha even though we weren't able to teach a lot this week, we still had some really cool experiences. 

Because one of our appointments fell out (with a joint teach), we were able to teach our Nigerian member how to bear his testimony in German so he could impress the ward on Sunday. He finally caught on, and he DEFINITELY did. It was awesome. We were basically cheering from the back row during fast and testimony meeting. Bishop laughed at us.

Because other appointments fell out, we had a lot of time to go finding and ended up finding some really awesome people. 

The first man we found is from Paris (shoutout to Anna!!) and had met missionaries before, but never really talked with them. We got his number and found out he works at a hipster cafe. Legit. With soy milk and tofu and stuff... Will we be going there? Yes. Will I like the food? Probably not. Antoine, you are so worth it.

About a month ago, we found a boy that was interested in the Book of Mormon but every time we went by his house, he was never home. We finally contacted him this week, and started teaching his entire family!! So that was cool. There are like 6 children and 22 grandchildren that live there (most of them not consistantly, but consistantly enough). So we are excited to see them progress. 

I have never found a family at one time before...

We also got a new ward mission leader this week! 

Sister Sykes and I ate with him and his family yesterday and we talked about his calling for a few hours and how we can help him, what he can do to help us... I think we still need to have a meeting with all the missionaries, but he is excited and we are excited for him :) When someone comes in fresh, they have so many good ideas and excitement, and I think we really need that in this ward.

Something I found in the scriptures this week was super interesting. 

There is that scripture in all of the gospels that says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all needful things shall be added unto you..." (something like that. Probably not verbatum...) But as I was reading in Luke, it talks about how the Lord loves us more than the sparrows, grass, etc... and gives us a bunch of blessings. Then this verse comes:

 31 ¶^aBut rather seek ye the ^bkingdom of God; and ^call these things shall be added unto you.

I looked at the footnote and realized that Joseph Smith had a translation of it, and it gives it a little more clarity about HOW we seek the kingdom of God:

JST Luke 12:34 Therefore seek ye to bring forth the kingdom of God … and all these things shall be added unto you.

I found it interesting that if we want all of these blessings to be added unto us, what we need to do is to seek to build the kingdom of God. AKA MISSIONARY WORK!!! 

I thought that was a nice little gem :)

Anyway, I love you! I hope you have a good week!!!