Hi family and friends! Hope everybody is doing awesome. Well the title of the email says it all. We had a ton of work to do this last week. We spent almost all of our time walking around the town, contacting the names we had on our list. I have some really good news to share too! We set a baptismal date with a man named Derlis! The funny thing is we didn´t even find him on saturday. He is a referall from a less active member we got about 2 or 3 weeks ago. He accepted the baptismal date but he is having a few problems with certain commandments and he didn´t show up at church yesterday. But we are going to keep trying. I think he´ll come around. At one point of the week I was a little frustrated to be honest. We were passing by all the names and a lot of them were fake addresses and telephone numbers and very few had interest at all. I didn´t want the branch to be disappointed when we had little to report at the end of the week. But then I came across a scripture I had previously marked that opened up my understanding. Romans 10:14-15 "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" It made me realize that even if we didn´t have much to report at the end of the week, we had done our part. The members and the missionaries showed their faith and worked. Now it is up to the people we contacted to accept or reject the message we have brought them. There is no way they can believe in Christ or know that His church is on the earth if we don´t tell them. It was a really humbling experience. Of those 57 referalls, we have 2 new investigators. But we´ll have more next week. I´m certain. I know this is the Lords work and He works according to His will. I know He lives and its our duty to proclaim that message to the world. I love you all and I hope you have a great week. Thanks for everything!
Love, Elder Langston
Elder Langston: sometimes it may be discouraging but remember that Joseph Smith said in Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith that if we do our part, then we are blessed as if everyone we contact accepted the gospel. YOu are an awesome example to the young men of our ward and area. Keep up the good work and the time will pass in the blink of an eye.
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