True Discipleship

Something I've learned during my time as a missionary is that being a disciple requires a lot of sacrifices. I've learned that as a missionary a lot of times we need to sacrifice things that we WANT to help others receive the things they NEED

Yesterday, we were sitting in the chapel with some of the members and some of the friends we brought to watch general conference. As I was watching, to my left was a single mom (recently baptized) and she brought 3 kids, all under the age of 8, now trust me, i know what its like to watch general conference as a kid, they began to run around the chapel like crazy and were making a lot of noise. I remember just sitting there for 30 minutes and just watching this mom struggle to keep her kids quiet while she tried to watch general conference. I sat there and received a strong impression that I needed to help this women out, so thankfully, Elder Clouse came mad prepared for a situation like this.... with his Bluey coloring book and his colored pencils, So I remember grabbing 2 pages out of the coloring book and laying down next to the kids and for the next hour just started coloring in my coloring book with them and it seemed to have worked! They were quiet and happy for the rest of the conference!

Then While I was laying down coloring with them, I looked over at this mom and little girl we had brought to church, and the little girl (whos about 10 years old) look BORED haha, trust me I know how it is, so I decided to leave the 3 kids coloring, and decided to play some tik tak toe and some dots (shoutout dad for teaching me) with her for the rest of the conference and it seemed to have cheered her up! She left conference with a big smile and everything!

I don't share these stories to boast of myself, but these stories really taught me a lot about discipleship. I could have just sat there and in my head thought "why doesn't this mom take her kids outside", because im not gonna lie that thought crossed my mind, but I realized this mom NEEDED the words in general conference, so even though I wasn't able to focus as much as I would have liked, the mom was, and nothing made me happier then seeing her just be calm and able to watch conference.

All of us receive spiritual impressions often, some of us wait to act on them (like me), others act immediately, and some of us ignore the prompting to begin with, I learned this general conference weekend the importance of sacrifices and acting on spiritual promptings

Also that family of 3 that came to church last week totally just used us for money big L's, but we got 9 people to church so that was hype

Love yall!