Tons of Spiders

   Elder Johnson and I have been living the high life. We straight up just been eating way healthy and going on good runs trying to make ourselves feel as good as possible when we tend to spend a lot of time on a screen. Everyone walks around our apartment building all day long so we see tons of faces but none that we are allowed to stop and talk to :(. It totally kills us both to just have to walk on by people that we know could use a little light:).

     I got to have my first one on one meeting with President Strong! Although it was brief it was a conversation haha so that was good. We have more rules put on us due to the seriousness of the virus in NorthWest Arkansas so any conversation with someone besides my comp (who is a great dude) is very welcome. 

      We helped a lady weed her garden beds that were full of caterpillars that when you squeeze em they shoot out orange antennas and release a weird smell it was fun to play with. But loads of spiders are everywhere it makes me wig out. We have tons of service coming in but almost as many backing out last second so that's always frustrating. I got to build a little kid playset for a new preschool that was getting put together and it was awesome. It's for reals was like legos for adults. We also mowed this guys yard and trimmed all his bushes which were covered in webs. We load up all this yard work equipment into the back of the mini van and take off on adventures haha. 

     Sunday was pretty ridiculously sweet, one of the most missionary minded families ever just called us and were like hey we invited three nonmembers over who are all interested in our church if you guys wanna come to dinner. We were calm and collected but freaking out inside because it was the first time weve taught some nonmembers in a while! They were all really cool. We talked a ton about the difference between happiness and Joy and how we can recieve more Joy. I kinda sucked at the lesson but Elder Johnson killed it so it turned out ok! One of the guys was super curious about the temple and asked how to get a recommend, we told him all the things that he would need to do and he was all for it! Great way to end the week. 

     Proverbs 3:5 says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding"

I have found myself leaning on my own understanding so much in life and it has led me to fail in so many circumstances that I seriously can't even number them. Not even just on my mission. There is a reason we have the gift of prayer and of the Holy Ghost. I did not use them enough. I neglected such a powerful gift our Heavenly Father gives us and I seriously am so sad because of it. But now I am learning on how I can lean more and more on the Lord and really understand how outmatched I am here on Earth without His help. The mission is humbling lol.