Two Becomes Three!

So this week has been So... Cray Cray! So to start out! We have a new addition to our little companionship! Elder Jackson from Alberta Canada! We now cover 2 wards! It's crazy! We are so busy! But good news is we where teaching two of our investigators, Paul and Lisa, and they accepted our invitation for baptism on the 21 of November! So Excite! Very much Happy! Also another one of our investigators named Michelle who once was a member, we where teaching her the Restoration and at the end of the lesson she started to cry! She said how grateful she was for us and our desire to help her! She said that when she is ready she wants us to baptize her! There was so much spirit there! We also taught a member we have been visiting for a while, Rachel, she has been going through some trials that have caused her to question her faith. This led me to remember a talk given by Henry B. Eyring.

"Many of you are now passing through physical, mental, and emotional trials that could cause you to cry out as did one great and faithful servant of God I knew well. His nurse heard him exclaim from his bed of pain, “When I have tried all my life to be good, why has this happened to me?”

There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

You and I have faith that the way to rise through and above trials is to believe that there is a “balm in Gilead” and that the Lord has promised, “I will not … forsake thee.”

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. Trouble itself can be your way to strengthen and finally gain unshakable faith. Moroni, the son of Mormon in the Book of Mormon, told us how that blessing could come to pass. He teaches the simple and sweet truth that acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

That particle of faith most precious and which you should protect and use to whatever extent you can is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."

I know that Many of us do struggle with the trials of the world. And some of us even struggle with the seemingly incurable trial of depression. But there is a cure and that is Faith in Jesus Chrsit! Don't be discouraged! wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. Ether 12:6

I hope you all are having a great week and I wish the best!

Elder Herrin