Riverside/Dows Lake- Week 8

This week was crazy. Someone we were teaching who has a baptismal date was out of town and then he came back only to get kicked out of where he was living (for the 4th or 5th time now...) and then he decided to go out of town again. 

We have done some more Light the World booths where I play violin, they have been really successful. We also had a talent show at zone conference and I played violin and my companion sang. By the way, p-day was changed this week to Wednesday because of the zone conference on Tuesday. 

Also, so I just trying to be happier and have a deep not worried about myself but more concerned about others. I thought I was a fairly kind person and good at being nice to others, validating others, respecting others , and being inclusive, but I really want to be better at these things and have a greater capacity to lift and edify others around me and do it at a higher level of sincerity and love.

A small miracle that happened this week was that I got that weird lump on my wrist again.  The cause of them are unknown and they don't actually cause any issues except they look gross. Anyways, when I got it this week, I prayed that it would disappear and then it did! The reason this is important is because I've realized that I pray for things, but on the inside I think "I need to be humble and submit my will to Heavenly Father's and I assume that what I pray for is always not in line with what God wants and so therefore it won't happen because I am just a prideful human who doesn't know what is righteous to pray for and Gods ways are always higher than mine and so the things I ask for what actually happen" Maybe this idea just comes from like the experiences I've had in my life where I feel like I following the commandments and I pray over my flocks and fields but then my flocks and fields die. So, I just always assume that things will fail and that everything will be hard and rotten for the sake of things being hard so we learn and grow and all that jazz we hear all the time. But I've realized that it's become an excuse for me for having actual faith that things will go right, that we actually will find people to teach, and we actually will have amazingly good things happen. Because so many good things have already happened! We are not so good at finding people to teach and I feel like it takes time with Chinese people, or I guess all people really. However, we have had some amazing things happen with strengthening the members and inspiring them to do missionary work and having them reach out to their lost family members. 

Here are some photos for this week...