Carry on

Hello everybody. I hope you all enjoyed your Halloween. This week was a good one for me. It was a busy one at the office. We had multi zone conferences three days. It takes a lot of work on our part to get ready for these. On Monday my comp and I were in the office from 7:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night. We had 0 lessons taught 0 news 0 everything. That is one challenge of being the office. You get very little time to work in your area. But I enjoy it here. It's a lot of responsibility and sometimes a little stressful. I like the stress of it. I like being pushed to have to do more with less time. I swear the Lord is blessing us with good new investigators that we find easily because we work in the office. We have found quite a bit of new positive people lately just from references and talking to people. Also just a question Does anybody actually read this? Anyways we work as hard as we possibly can and I feel like we have pretty good success.

I'm learning a lot. 

Here's the story of the drunk guy. We had this investigator. When my comp and another guy found him, obviously they found him before I got there, he was drunk. He drank for the next three visits to the family. He had been drinking for 30 years. He had been living with a lady for 25 years unmarried. This last Sunday they got married and baptized. It was really awesome. Yesterday they came with us to teach this investigator named Ernesto who smokes. He doesn't really want to change, or at least he says he doesn't want to change. Noé, the convert, started talking about how he was a drunkard and all that stuff and he told him. "Look at me. Thanks to God first, and these Elders I changed and haven't drunken for three months." He talked to him for 10 minutes about how he changed and everything. It´s really awesome to see the changes in peoples lives.

I realized something this week. I thought about how tiring it is to find a new investigator that has a lot of problems, addictions and what not and then take them to baptism. They have to take all these big steps in their lives that are difficult to take. We as missionaries have to take them with them to a certain extent. It really is tiring, rewarding definitely, but tiring. We do this because we are representatives of Jesus Christ. We are only representatives he takes every step with every single person. Where we know kind of how they are feeling and kind of what they need, He knows every bit of how they are feeling and everything they need. This realization helped me understand more about the Atonement and how difficult it was. Obviously I understand a fraction of fraction of it but I understand it a little bit better now.

Thanks for reading, if you still are. Have a good week.

-Elder Rowberry