Mindset is the key to success!

This week at Zone conference I leaned a lot about mindset and what that means. The one main thing that I learned is that if you think something is not going to happen then it won't. I mean we all know that, but it became real for me this week. One example they brought up was talking on the streets. As you know or maybe you do not we can not knock doors here in Armenia and it is all based on street contacts. So an example that they brought up was talking to people on the street and thinking this person is not going to stop for me, but we still say hello to him. I mean the odds are that nothing is really going to happen. I mean we have a lot more odds of something happening if we think it is going to happen. So that is something I am going to work on is to think that more people will accept the gospel and are ready for it. If I do that, I will find a lot more people because the l am thinking that I can.

This week in Alaverdi was pretty good. Something that was really cool was this experience of when we went to this members house. We called her and planned up with her to be over there around 7 in the evening. When we got there this drunk man was there and was bugging the member. I knew at this point that the Lord had put us there for a reason. He was not doing a ton of harm, but was just being loud and a normal drunk person. However, this member still wanted him out of her house. So we got to talking with this guy and started taking pictures with him. Then after that we were like hey lets go and take pictures out side so that we could get him outside and out of her house. So all of that worked and we were able to ditch this guy outside. The moral of this story is that the Lord puts us in places that we were needed. I was super grateful that we could be in a place that the Lord needed us. The week was a normal week and we had meetings with members and I love being in a trio.

In my studies this week, I learned that we need to be more patient. Patience is one of the Christ's attributes that will help us live with our Heavenly Father again. The scripture that I really liked was Alma 34 verses 40 and 41. These scriptures really helped me out and I want to invite you all the be more patient this week. 

Oh and follow the #lightuptheworld initiative on mormon.org. Look at that and blast social media up. I love you all so much and have an amazing week

Elder sproul