An Arm and a Leg and a Challenge

I'll tell you one really cool story... Me and my companion had been teaching the whole day and he felt too drained to teach the last lesson so we went on teaching trade-offs with the Zone leaders and so me and this other Elder taught the last lesson to our investigator..... I don't think I've told you haha.. His name is "Arm" haha. We always made dry jokes like... Hey is your brothers name Leg?... lolz we're so sad... but anyways I was pretty mentally drained as well from like 6 hours of teaching haha... but this last lesson was THEE BEST of the day hands down.... we taught the last half of the Plan of Salvation and we set his baptismal date and he eagerly accepted! And once we finished the lesson he prayed on the spot about his baptism.... he asked if this date was the best for him and then paused for a long time in silence.... and then he started thanking heavenly father for giving him this warm feeling and said he knew this date was the best for him! Then he closed and me and the other Elder just looked at each other like...... what. the........ WOOOOOO HOOOO!!! hahahah. It was so cool!

But this week was ridiculous... I don't even remember what happens anymore... We've been the busiest we've ever been... We had like 4 days where we didn't even go outside haha... we just taught the WHOLE day... It's a really good experience though.. we're seeing our investigators increase their desire to come more often to learn...  I'll tell you the challenge I have for everyone who reads this email or my blog etc. So our mission is working on a Christlike Attribute every week until Christmas... So what's gonna happen is... 1. I will give you something to read from Preach My Gospel.... then 2. I'll give you scripture references to study and link together.... and you better do them cause I spent a while finding scriptures that could tell a story hahah. Then 3. Pray every morning for help to use this attribute in your day... then at night report to the Lord on your progress.... And 4. Ask others around you to join in on this..... So for this week it will be "Hope"..... So here we go.... Read this:

"Hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill His promises to you. It is manifest in confidence, optismism, enthusiasm, and patient perseverance. It is believing and expecting that something will occur. When you have hope, you work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance that all things will work together for your good. Hope helps you conquer discouragement. The scriptures often describe hope in Jesus Christ as the assurance that you will inherit eternal life in the celestial kingdom... President James E. Faust taught: "Hope is the anchor of our souls..Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future... The unfailing source of our hope is that we are sons and daughters of God and that His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, saved us from death."

Now scripture study.... 

1. Romans 8:24-25... Definition of Hope... 

2. Jacob 4:4... Example of those who had hope... 

3. Moroni 7:40-41... What do we hope for... 

4. A blessing of Hope in Atonement... 

5. Alma 30:13,15,39-44.... There will always be opposition against our hope...  

6. 2 Nephi 31:20... Blessing of enduring opposition with hope.... 

7. D&C 138:14.... What we all hope for... 

I put this together in like 30 mins so don't judge me... I'll try to make a better one next week... But your commitment for the week is to do these things! Yayyyyy! Love you byeeee!