Joints Heirs With Christ

Hey everyone. This week has been super good. This holiday season is so nice to do missionary work with. Everyone's hearts are just softened buy the spirit around this holiday. We have been trying to take advantage of it and work really hard. We found a new investigator this week and he is super awesome. His name is Mike and he says he just wants to take his spirituality to the next level and he know that by taking the lessons he can do it. He is pretty solid and we are going to try and put him on date this week. Its been pretty hard work here. We only have like 5 real investigators we are teaching and the rest of the people we have are potential investigators that we are trying to set things up with. We dont have very many people to work with here but they all seem to be doing pretty good. 

We had a zone conference this past week and it was super good. Our whole mission read the Book of Mormon in 62 days and marked the Doctrine of Christ (faith, repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost and endure to the end). We talked about how each of the doctrines apply to us daily and why they are talked about so much in the Book of Mormon. We also talked about things we learned just reading the Book of Mormon in such a small amount of time. My favorite thing applied kind of to enduring to the end. It was Suffering with Patience. There are so many things in this life that we have to suffer for. Just trial after trial. Test after test. And sometimes its hard to see the meaning behind all of it. But in Romans 8:17 it says. "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together". We must suffer WITH Christ if we are going to be joint heirs with him! Meaning that we will inherit all he has. Its pretty crazy to think about how much we are going to receive for the small suffering we do. And we dont have to do it alone we have Him to help us along the entire way! Suffering with patience is key. We just need to understand is for a purpose and the Lord is watching out for us. 

This week we are also having a baptism for Dani Brown! She is so awesome and so ready. She knows so much about the church and is so eager to learn. She is ready to turn her life around and knows the happiness that comes from the gospel already!

We went and explored a cave today!