Becoming a Disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ

This week has been really good. We are expecting to have someone interviewed for baptism this Saturday if everything works out! I'm super excited they are super awesome. The husband is a member and wants to baptize her so he is meeting with bishop his week to see what he needs to do to baptize her.  They should be good to go.

This transfer our zone is focusing on becoming a Disciple of Jesus Christ. I've been studying a bunch of talks and scriptures. Some things I learned this week is that it takes time and practice to become a Disciple of Jesus Christ. Like it says I'm Alma, you have to start with a seed and nurture it. Let it grow and keep doing what it takes to make it grow big. The Disciples inhe New Testament didn't just grow over night to become the Apostles but grew over time and learn from Jesus. In our life I think we expect too much of ourselves. There was an experience of someone reaching out to heir friend saying they needed advice. They felt like they were lacking in spiritual things and felt like they were losing their testimony. Their friend gave them a few things to do each night. The friend responded about a week later telling his friend that it wasn't working. He explained to his friend that it wasn't going to work in one quick week, but that it needed some time. Anything good takes time, practice and discipline. We don't expect to wake up in the morning being an all star in basketball or a pro golfer. Why would we expect the same with spiritual matters. For us to become Disciples of Jesus Christ we have to keep working and slowly growing our individual seeds. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said "Brothers and sisters, we have to stay with it. We don’t acquire eternal life in a sprint--this is a race of endurance. We have to apply and reapply the divine gospel principles. Day after day we need to make them part of our normal life." Keep pushing a keeping striving to become a Disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's the best investment you can make in this life! 

32nd floor of a high rise in Central Phoenix

Caught a little squirrel

We had some appointments the day of our zone Conference so the top one is us with the Phoenix zone. The bottom one is us in our own zone. We made it for lunch afterwards but didn't have suits haha. Also I got to see Elder Bell again!