Joshua 7

Woah! This week blew my mind! Of course we listened to an apostle of the lord and he just told us straight up how it was. He makes it sound so easy to just baptize people, and honestly it is. I know that if we are doing our part it doesn't matter where we are on our mission, or in our mission for that matter, we can baptize people. It's really up to us and our worthiness. So simple. Elder Ballard talked a lot about how we are conduits for the spirit. We are the link that brings it to them. This is where worthiness comes in. I was reading in Joshua and it talks about the Israelites after they took Jericho. They were commanded not to keep anything from Jericho, they were commanded to give it all to the lord. There was a man named Achan who took some gold and silver from Jericho and of course he didn't tell anyone. Joshua sends soldiers into Ai directly after that and they get beaten by an army of lesser power. Joshua is taken back and doesn't understand because the Lord promised him they would take all the land of the caananites. The Lord then tell Joshua that somebody had disobeyed and had taken spoils from Jericho. All in all the army couldn't win because they weren't obedient. It's the same way with us. we have to do all that we can to have the spirit and to help people understand and recognize when they're feeling the spirit.

Joshua 7

I'm so happy that we got to see Elder Ballard. Talking with members of my district on the phone after you could hear the fire in their voices. We have a goal as a mission to baptize 100 people before Elder Oaks comes in September and I'm so glad that we can contibrute to it here in St. Dié. I'm so happy for chantal and for how much she's changed in her life

till next week!