Hit The Nail On The Head

Hey y'all!

Happy Tuesday! We had an adventurous week.

We went to follow up with a woman we had given a Book of Mormon to last week, but she was not home. On our way back, we tried to find a less active man who lives around there that our Bishop had asked us to go see. The address we had led us to a vacant house, so we were at a loss. We continued driving down the dirt road and the next house over had a man out front. We waved and then ended up pulling over because here in the South everyone knows everyone so we thought we would ask him for directions! We asked if he knew the man we were looking for, he said "no I don't know who that is... just kidding he is me". Haha! We found him!! We talked about his testimony and shared with us a little bit about why he stopped attending church. We asked him if he had still been reading his scriptures and he admitted he had not, because he had not been to church. We talked about how our relationship with God is more than a Sunday worship, our relationship with Him is 24/7 and if we are not increasing our knowledge and testimony.. We are decreasing it! Scriptures are the iron rod and it is so important to read His word daily! Scriptures provide a spiritual protection from the adversary and all of his evil temptations. He was so awesome and invited us to come back and see him!

On Thursday we drove home and perfectly impaled our tire with a screw. Cochran is doing a lot of construction and last week people fixed our roof, so we're not exactly sure where the nail came from. Either way, we knew where it was & where we wanted it to not be! Fortunately we were home before our tire went completely flat & I learned how to change a tire in my last area! We were parked uphill and as we lifted the car and attempted to take off the wheel, the car began to roll backward! Sister Smith quickly jumped in the car & pulled the emergency break & one thing led to another.... I really did not want to go to the effort to put the car back down and re park it, but after it almost rolled back a second time with the emergency break on. We parked it sideways & tried again. I noticed while we were parked straight and attempting to fix our tire, we almost rolled backward.. twice, but when we parked sideways, we not only successfully put our spare on, we also had 4 individuals pull over and ask if they could help. All we had to do was ground ourselves to a more flat & steady foundation!

"If we are not being rooted in the word, we can be scorched and wither away when opposition arises. But even those raised in the Church—long-term members—can slip into a condition where they have no root in themselves." - Elder Dallin H Oaks

I hope y'all read your scriptures today as you continue build your foundation upon the rock of our Redeemer :) I love y'all! Have a wonderful week!
Sister Morrill