You are planting seeds for trees you won't sit under!

Hello family!

First of all, welcome to the world my beautiful niece baby Mabel!! She's just so perfect :)

The work is so wonderful.. I know that I always say that, but it truly gets better and better every day! This past week we met with Lisa and Allie (our investigators preparing for baptism in June). They are amazing!! Lisa has read through to 1 Nephi 15, she spent hours researching on lds.org... and she read conference talks given by President Monson on the family. She also asks several questions and just soaks up everything she learns.. She is so willing and prepared. We had a church tour with her and Allie to help them feel more comfortable and familiar. We've really been putting an emphasis on church tours and have seen more people come out to church because of them! We also did one with MA and she spent half the time in the family history center looking up her genealogy with sister Hiland. She was just loving life.. we almost had to drag her out of there haha it was so great! MA has been investigating for a while now, and she knows the church is true, but isn't acting upon the truth she's received. After our lesson and tour, we explained to her that we weren't going to push her anymore and if she wanted to continue to meet or come to church.. she would make the effort. It's always hard to drop someone you love, but we're on the Lord's time and we have to find those who have the desire and have a willing heart.

 

This past week we had a zone activity combined with the Santa Barbara zone! I got to see both Sister Brown and Sister Angimarau, so that was really fun! Our whole activity was centered on our focus, "We are led by the spirit as we find and teach." We went on a hike and had to be blindfolded, while our companion (The Holy Ghost led us). At one point, we did it 3 legged, while sister Scoresby was blind folded.. Due to the height difference and our struggle of right and left... it was a pretty rough experience, but we survived… haha it was pretty funny and it's something that will be remembered!

 

Someone shared a quote with me this past week that I loved and wanted to share - "You're planting seeds for trees that you won't sit under." Our simple acts of kindness.. our righteous actions go further than we will ever know. We don't always need to see the end result, but we can trust that the little things can make the greatest difference. Do good, be good!

Thank you for the prayers and support!!

Love,

Sister James

5-18-15

My dear Sister Angimarau

 

Zone activity