August 22, 2016

Hello friends!

These weeks have been faith building. This week experimented in the area of "tracking." Sometimes everyone we plan to visit has moved or isn't home. So what do we do, we knock. Tracking brings little to no success, but it does bring interesting stories. This week someone told me, " I am Catholic, and I don't believe in a american prophet."

The work in my new area has been a dificult and a little slow, but we a working with faith and begining to see miracles. We are finding families to teach, and Lord is putting prepared people in our paths.

This week we had our first successful music class and we formed a mini choir. If everything goes well we will perform in Sacrament meeting this week. We also had some very successful sloppy joes this week, and a couple dog attacks that almost made me loose my sloppy joes. There is this one dog here that has pure white eyes, and it is the scariest thing that I have ever beheld. He chases you and his eyes are screaming louder than his barks," DEATH!" I love it. 

These past weeks have been a little discouraging at times, BUT I have learned a lot. WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE.  We can't do the work of the Lord without his help. In order to have his help we need to work has he would have us work, not in our OWN ways, according to our OWN desires. We have to take heed to the counsel given to Gordon B. Hinckley when he was a missionary. "FORGET YOURSELF AND GO TO WORK!" There really is no other way.

The mission is wonderful and I know that it isn't "easy." IT CAN BE EASY! We have dificulties when we wrestle with the Lord. We have his promise that his yoke is easy and his burden is light. We are the ones who make it difficult. I want to give everything I have to him, because he has given everything to me. "It says in the Bible, not to wrestle thy neighbor." - Nacho Libre.

Let's not wrestle.

Miracle story: 2 weeks ago we had one member come to church and the entire sacrament meeting was just the 3 of us. The work sometimes seem very unfruitful, but we should always put our trust in the Lord and move forward with faith. This week we had 23 people in the church and 2 of which were investigators. The work is awesome.

Love,

Elder Boyack