I Met A Prophet of God

 You might be asking yourself, yo Elder Clouse you met President Nelson...you'll see

This week was something else, kinda a rough one but also learned a ton. Lets start out with the fact that we had to drop all 5 people we had on date for baptism, kinda depressing. I'll tell you the story of the reason we had to drop one of friends, our friend Leo...

Little backround, Leo is about 30 years old and is the ONLY non member is his family. But bro wants to be baptized, you might be asking yourself, whats stoppin him. Lets just say his family went absolutely ROGUE from the church. So we basically pull up to his house on Tuesday and we see his brother outside and we ask if he can call Leo. So he calls inside and out comes the dad, oh no. Lets just say this boy HATES Joseph Smith, its quite funny, and bro started going off on how he was a false prophet and all. He also made fun of us for believing in eternal families, as if it was something terrible and said doing baptisms for the dead was a joke. So I asked him what happens to the kids who have never heard of Jesus Christ ever in their life, and he just said they go to hell. At that point I just decided to mess with him, I asked if he had a bible and didn't need more bible, he proceeded to say yes. Heheheha. I then asked if the church he went to had a prophet and he looked at me and said Ya, me. Hows bro boutta call Joseph a false prophet and then say that. So I didn't even say anything I just walked away and we sadly did not pass by for Leo again

Also this week, me and my comp started off the week with a ton of energy, we were hype, and this week we proceeded to contact over 230 people. You might think we would have found at least person, you would be wrong. I have never contacted more people in my life, and no one wanted to listen. We couldn't even get anyone to open a freaking Google link on Saturday or Sunday. We deep in Lamanite territory

That being said I found a lot of joy in the work this week. After being depressed basically all this transfer because of my situation, dwelling on the fact I had a rough companion, our área wasnt producing much, I found myself thinking of all the negative things going on. So this week I made an emphasis on searched for joy in the work. I found myself a lot happier despite the rejection we faced, I found myself not getting as annoyed at my comp, and I found myself satisfied because I know I gave everything to the Lord. Something I loved that Elder Uchtdorf said in conference was "If you are looking for joy you will find it" and I can say I know that to be true. Joy is a mindset!

Love yall, thanks for the prayers