January 18th, 2017

I've been doing a lot of learning about looking back to learn from the future as well. One of the keys to faith is remembering. I'm reading in 1 Nephi at the moment and Nephi is constantly telling his brothers to remember how great the Lord has been. When we remember and learn from our past it help us to learn and move forward! When we doubt, the first step is to remember. Then we gain a hope for the future and then we act on that hope. I've actually being doing a lot of study and pondering on faith. It's the first principle of the gospel and it's so powerful. It leads to all other principles.

Life this week was good! Me and Elder Dey are having tons of fun together and both of us have a really upbeat and positive attitudes which makes the work so much more fun. Our goal is to beat the assistants in key indicators and on Friday we were working hard and having loads of fun talking to everyone we saw and because of it we got 4 new investigators. It's been a good change of pace. Paul is still progressing but things are going to be a bit slower with him.

The two of us really get along and I love working with him. Something great - we had the opportunity to have a mission zone conference in Crawley with 5 zones. Me and Elder Dey planned an hour long breakout session with our zone. We started by doing a really fun object lesson where each group had 25 balloons and in 10 minutes they had to see who could build the tallest structure. The mission president came in right as we started and we told him if he wants to stay he has to participate... his group won haha it was a great time and the zone conference as a whole was awesome! One of the biggest take aways was about faith. I've been thinking a lot about faith and what it means to me and I've come to the conclusion, which I'm sure will change as I grow as it always does, is that faith is an abiding trust in God. It's me saying I know that what you want me to do is best, so I'll do it an put away what want. I've seen that when I have a question and I want revelation from God I have to trust him before an answer will come, or before I find someone who will be baptised I have to trust him that he has prepared people and that my efforts aren't wasted. It's all about trust. And as I just trust and let go of my set back, what ever the outcome is I always have this rock solid sense of peace that can't leave me. Right now I feel like no matter what happens to me I can't lose this sense of peace because it's a peace that comes from God.