God blesses preservece and diligence

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Happy 4th of July!🎇🎉🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 everyone! Hope you are having a great day I know I am! But ya this past week was a week of perseverance and diligent hard work as stated in the subject. The start of the week was good on Monday we didn't have a full p-day because we went to the temple on Saturday, but it was a good day we had almost nothing fall through it looked like the start of a great week! And ya Tuesday and Wednesday we did a lot of service and we were at the Food Shelf we do service at and we were short a person so we were running the whole floor and man it was rough. I was really exercising patience! There was a group of ladies and all they did was complain because the shelves weren't full enough and I was trying to stock and do my other jobs checking people's carts and helping people and man I was just glad when they finally left, but ya on Wednesday we helped Bro. McLafferty bulid an outdoor enclousre for their rabbit because he is tired of it pooping all over the house. But ya it was good and then everything fell through that day but we had a good lesson at 8 with a less active.

But ya on Thursday same story all day stuff was just falling through left and right and then we got in with his guy named Zogo and at first he was just basically arguing with us. Ya he said he wouldn't touch let alone read the Book of Mormon but then we talked a bit more and he gave these 5 reasons he had that made no sense at all but I just bore my testimony about how we can feel the spirit and get to know Christ better through the Book of Mormon. And after that the lesson went better pure testimony can make a huge difference it says in alma 4:19 

 19 And this he did that he himself might go forth among his people, or among the people of Nephi, that he might preach the word of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them.

It is is only by the baring of our testimony that people can be brought to repentance when a testimony is borne the Holy Ghost is there as well and will testify to them and that is how people make changes and keep commitment and make covenants by the power of the Holy Ghost and hearing testimonies and building them.

But ya the rest of the week was kinda just falling through but as we diligently kept pushing forward the Lord blessed us and on Friday while we were tracting we knocked on this guys door and he was like my wife knows a lot of Mormons and we said ok and he called her over and she said ya I was a Mormon when I was 16 and he said he had questions and so we got in and taught him about baptism for the dead and it was good it is a part member family that God led us to and so ya we got another appt. with them for the next week so that was awesome! And then on Friday the trend continued  and things kept falling through. Then at 8 that night we had an appt. with our investigator  and there roommate told us he wanted to have a reasoning session with us and ya it was a waste of time he was just trying to tell us that Jesus was black and just that it is all one god and no one true church but ya then afterwords we had a real lesson and they had this lady who is with them now because she was in the US to take care of her brother and he died and she had nowhere to go so they took her in  and her name is Viola and we invited her into the lesson and we had a great lesson about temples and the Restoration and it was great I think she has alot of good potential Then Sunday was good Joseph and Viola came to church Joseph loves coming to church and it was Viola's first time and she loved it so that was great. I think she could  progress faster. I am excited about her potential! But ya  the new bishop of our ward is great he is making it all about people and so ya it is just awesome he is going to do a great job! It was a great Sunday we ended the night at the church syncing up our numbers for the past week and one of the other elder's tire went flat and so he sat on my comps seat while he peddled. It looked funny I have a pic and a video but ya it was a good week we had a lot of stuff fall through but the Lord blessed us with 3 new investigators because we went on and persevered it was good I am loving it out here I am coming up on my last transfers, but i am working hard till the end! 
Hope you all have a great week! 
Love Elder Howe