Press on with Faith

This week was a really good week. We had a lot of chances to pick up investigators, but all of the visits just did not work out. One thing that happened was someone called us and wanted to meet with us and we were super excited about it. I asked him if he was in Charenstavan and he told me yes. So we were super excited about it. The next day came and we were 15 minutes early to where he said to meet. We were going to meet him at a park. So we called him and wanted to see if he was still going to come, and then we found out that he was in Yerevan. He said that we gave him our number a few days before, but we did not remember that at all. So we just gave the number to the Erebuni Elders and they took it from there. 

Then we had this man who wanted to meet with us and practice English with us. He called us last week trying to meet with us. We were really surprised that he would call us. We made it a focus of trying to meet with him and get him into the church to feel of the spirit that is in the building. So every time that we called him he was saying that we would be able to meet at night so every night we would be ready to meet with him he would just tell us that he was busy or went to another job, or had guests over. 

I don't tell you this because I am complaining or anything, but because I am happy that we have opportunities to find people Out of the 3 opportunities we were able to find one person this week. So what did we learn from this? Sometimes we try our best and it still does not work out. We just have to remember that it is all in the Lord's time. We are blessed in so many ways and just for trying. In my opinion the Lord does not care as much about the results, but just that we are trying. For instance, we had a member tell us that he does not want to read because he will not remember what he had read. This was my response to him. The Lord does not care if we remember what we read. He cares that we are reading and following the prophet and reading the book everyday. We will feel the spirit and be blessed just for showing our faith in the prophet. So I know I talk about The Book of Mormon a lot, but really it is my testimony and will never be shaken. All you have to do is open the book and the spirit will open itself upon you.  

I love you so much and have an amazing week. Sorry there has not been any pictures lately, but I just have not been taking any lately.

Elder Sproul