Chapter 46: Losses

This week was a semi-disappointing one. My phone screen broke, which is the reason for my short weekly today, my broken phone screen makes journaling a lot more difficult. We also lost an investigator this week. Cybele's grandparents felt pressured by the commitments that we were making with them, and decided that we would no longer be meeting to teach Cybele. We have increased our focus with the rest of the people we have moving forward though, and are looking forward to seeing the additional people who are put in our path.

One funny story came late Friday night: We were walking back to our apartment and were stopped by a lady asking if we were "Mormons", we corrected her with "Members of the Church of Jesus Christ" and she stared at us blankly. We conceded that "Mormon" was a nickname that the church was known by and she told us, "I knew it! I can spot you Mormons a mile away!" My companion and I looked at each other, dressed in white shirts, ties, and dress slacks, complete with black nametags, wondering what in our appearance could have given away the fact that we were missionaries.

For a Spiritual thought I want to share a verse that we find in the book of 2nd Nephi, as well as Isaiah:

9 Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days. Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

10 Art thou not he who hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a away for the ransomed to pass over?

The strength that Isaiah and Jacob were talking about here was the strength of the Lord, His power: Compassion, mercy, longsuffering, and patience. This power is what gives us the ability to conquer dragons and move the sea, this power is the power that ransoms you and me.

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