December 4, 2018

I was so sad to hear about scott nelson this week. I'm so grateful that in times where we feel helpless we are able to fast and pray. We taught bayne a lesson about fasting last which was really perfect for him because his brother in law had just gone to the hospital after bayne had found him passed out inside his house. A scary experience but also an opportunity to put our faith and trust in the Lord. In one of the testimonies on fast sunday brother edmonds talked about when we fast we are strengthening our spiritual muscle, and we are also strengthening our ability to choose right. usually when we are hungry we just go and grad something to eat, but when we fast we put off that natural reaction and choose something that is better. Our greater purpose is what motivates us. When we are able to master this it prepares us for future dilemmas in life where we need to push away the temptations and let God's greater purpose motivate us. 

This past week we were able to teach glen. He was taught by missionaries about 20 years ago. They helped him to quit smoking but at the time he just couldn't commit to baptism. God placed him in our path though and so hopefully this time he is ready! we are teaching him again tonight:). We also got to meet this older man named roger. It seems like whenever we have a night when we feel like chickens with our heads cut off God leads us to someone cool haha. We were in mahone bay walking and for whatever reason we just couldn't find this road we were going to go to. We stopped and tried pulling up the map on our phone again and realized that we had walked past it. Before we started walking again though we thought that maybe this was God leading our feet and so we knocked on the house that we were closest too. There we met roger:) He has been having a hard time lately. He found out in the spring that he has cancer and so a message of hope is really what he's needing!!

I can't believe I'll only be sending one more email after this one! I have been so blessed and my testimony of chirst and the scriptures has grown so much!

love sister wood