December 11, 2017

Okay this week has been really really tough. Homesickness hit really hard this week, we weren´t having any success in our area and I felt that everything that we were doing wasn´t helping us. On top of all that each night I would have this terrifying dream that you all were in trouble but there was nothing that I could do about it, I had broken me. I would go to be feeling sad and I would wake up feeling even worse, during prayers I would just cry all of the time. BUT I have found my solution, whenever I am missing home or feeling really down I take five minutes to close my eyes and think about skiing (specifically the John Paul Run) and I feel 100x better. 
Our area right now is very hard we haven´t had much success in teaching people, we lost three investigators in 1 day (that was really tough). But we did have a new contact that shows a lot of promise. We were tracting in an area and my companion told me to pick a house. I wasn´t feeling anything in the area so I decided to pick a direction that I thought would have the most promise. As we turned the corner there was a baby bird on the ground, my companion wanted us to leave it, but thanks to a wonderful older brother I knew that we couldn´t just let this bird die. So I got out my Agenda and placed the bird on top of it, at that moment a man came out of his house and saw what we were doing and said that the nest was in his yard. We were able to return the bird back to its home and talk to this person about the gospel which was pretty freaking awesome!!
I love hearing from all of you and my time for emails is from 5-630 in the morning for you guys.
I love you all,
Elder Belnap

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