Week 63 - It's cold here!!!

Heyyyy!
Super good week this week as always! Still working hard finding people to bring to Christ. :) we did a ton of stuff this week it feels like. Haha highlights from this week!! We got a good amount of snow it got down to about -20 two days this week. So that was fun. :') we had a few member dinners, we talked to a ton of cool people on the subway! Had district meeting, and met with Nils!! So it was a really good week I would say. We had a ton of time for finding so we switched it up as much as we could. Talked to people on the streets, called people, knocked doors, on the subway, ya know all the good stuff :) but really good week I would say!

But we did have a cool experience from this week! So, Saturday we had a completely white day, nothing planned so we planned lots of finding obviously and it started out pretty bad... We got out at 10:00 and contacted for about 2 hours and talked to literally nobody. We tried, but it ended up in a lot of awkward situations and people not wanting to listen. But Elder Steele and I wouldn't let each other get down. So we got reenergized with some lunch and studies and got back out. Some more of the same but we stayed out trying to get through it. Then, (little background, there has been this old investigator we have been trying to get a hold of but have never been able to. We talked about it in weekly planning to get a hold of him this week) and we contacted into him! He still wasn't super interested in meeting but he still reads the BoM every now and again so maybe one day! it was honestly such a miracle! Then, that evening we planned to go out tracting. And it went pretty well! We found an area with some younger more open people. Still nothing super crazy though. Then we said okay, last port then we have to go catch the train. And literally the last door we knocked on was an amazing family that invited us back!! It was so cool to see the miracles come after the trial of our faith. :) 

I was studying prayer this morning, and I came across this in the Bible dictionary and I really loved it. :) "Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others, blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings." And I love that! Remember as you pray that it shouldn't be a rote thing. I would invite you this week to look at your own prayers and ask yourself how can I make my prayers more meaningful and better align my will with Gods. :) I know that as you do the lord will bless you so so much! 

I love y'all and hope you have a good week! Thanks for the the love and support it doesn't go unappreciated! :) as always, Keep the Faith! 

Love,
Elder Baggett--