Hello friends :)
What a week! Sister Kuhlo and I are best friends with the rain. Wherever we go, it comes with us :) Whenever we go outside, the rain comes out too. Its a really loyal relationship. Oh boy. Lets see... what happened this week. Oh! In case y'all didn't know, Jehova's Witness people don't celebrate birthdays. But - the other day, we were on our way to the church to have a mini birthday party for one of the elders, and we saw two people near our apartment looking confused. They looked almost identical to the elders, and I said "hey, do you think those are the elders or two JWs?" I'm known for having incredible eyesight, and so my companion said 'oh, its totally the elders'. so we decided to scare them, because they were already supposed to be at the church and we were gonna show them what they get for being late. So we creep over to the building that they went into, with our arms full of happy birthday banners and a birthday cake, we're standing outside the door, ready to go in and bust them........ and we get a text from them asking if we were on our way. we thought they were trying to find an excuse for being late, so we were thinking of a sassy reply when out walk two jehovas witness men from the buildling. we looked at them like deer in the headlights, birthday cake and banners and all........... they looked at us. and then we ran. hahah Needless to say, it was NOT the Elders, and we scared some Jehovah's Witnesses. Hehe. Oops. SO that was a funny one.
Yesterday we had a lesson with one of our investigators about praying to ask for forgiveness, and how that is a vital part of the repentance process, and invited him to try it. He said ok. Then last night, we got a text from him saying that he had prayed for forgiveness and he felt so so happy now, and said thank you that we had taught him about it. It just made us so so so so so happy to hear how happy he is. The gospel changes lives, people. It's incredible.
Well, I'm sure many of you have the quote book that my mom gives out each year, but I wanted to just talk for a second about this week's quote. "The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus in our lives". This is so true.... Just look at Jean (the guy I just talked about). He is always so focused on how scary change is, and how hard it is to overcome things... but when he changed his focus to letting Christ help him, he felt HAPPINESS. Try reading in the scriptures and study what joy and happiness are. True happiness is found in the pursuit of eternal matters. Keep the end perspective in mind. Don't lose hope, don't give up, and don't take your eyes off the Savior. He won't lead you astray. I miss you all and hope you have an incredible week!
love, Søster Ludlow
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