Elder Yates: This is gonna be good y'all!

This week was crazy!!! We met this lady at an apartment complex, her name is Suzanne. She is super cool! We taught her the Restoration on her doorstep, because we aren't allowed to be inside without a third male over the age of 16. She invited us back, but said to only come when her husband isn't there, because he is a drunk and almost got in a fist fight with the Jehovah's Witnesses! Hahaha, so we went back a couple days later with a prospective missionary in the ward named Daniel. We made sure that the husband wasn't home, and then proceeded to go inside and started teaching about the Plan of Salvation. She especially loved the Eternal Families part! Just before we could start the ending prayer, we heard her husband's truck pull into the complex!! So, she told us to go hide in the bathroom! This is where I didn't feel safe... As there is now 3 of us in the bathroom the size of a stall at the local Target or Walmart, we made a unanimous vote to crawl out of the 1 story bathroom window! We all weren't about to be pummeled by this guy! After letting the other two go, I was about to squeeze through, when my belt loop got stuck on the window frame! This guy unlocked the door, and came right for me! He started pulling on my leg... JUST LIKE I'M PULLING YOURS!!!

Haha, sorry I had to do it! I heard this from a ward member, and thought y'all would like it! Anyways, not much else happened this week, except for being fed by on of our investigators, like literally last second! They fed us this really good chicken broth soup with a freshly grilled Jalapeno! that was awesome!

This week, I'd like to talk about the choices we make...

In the League City Stake Conference, there was a quote given by one of the speakers: "When is it that our trials become blessings?" What will your answer be? The remainder to this quote is, "When we choose to see them that way." So, when have we chosen to see our trials as blessings?

Some scriptural pump-up action! 1 Nephi 17:7-10

7 And it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had been in the land of Bountiful for the space of many days, the voice of the Lord came unto me, saying: Arise, and get thee into the mountain. And it came to pass that I arose and went up into the mountain, and cried unto the Lord.

8 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou shalt construct a ship, after the manner which I shall show thee, that I may carry thy people across these waters.

9 And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after the manner which thou hast shown unto me?

10 And it came to pass that the Lord told me whither I should go to find ore, that I might make tools.

When Nephi was commanded to build a ship, he didn't respond in a complaining manner, the first question he asks, was about how he should make the tools. This shows me how I need to respond when we have trials in my life. With humility and a determination that I can do anything with the Lord's help!

I love all of you, and I know that you may not want to respond to my challenges or questions (except for a couple people), but I know that this Gospel can bless you, when you CHOOSE to let it do so.

-Elder Yates