RESPECT PEOPLE'S AGENCY

Family,

Crazy week this week. Kanita didn't show up to her baptismal interview and Ming Naet went back to her kite and Mey won't answer her phone. So major lesson learned this week is just to respect people's agency. Once Ming Naet comes back from her kite she will continue to progress not too worried about her, we just dont know when that will be. She doesn't have a phone and so we will just go to her house occasionally and hope she comes back soon! 

Cool experience this week. As we were preparing to go out and proselyte I had the impression to go and visit a member Ming Sovanna and immediately after a specific verse of scripture came into my mind to share. So we planned to go to her house first thing after studies. As we started to meet with her she told us she was really busy, but I told her I wanted to just share a quick scripture. After we shared the scripture she just started to cry. She said she has been praying for months about a specific question and felt like she couldn't receive an answer and was very discouraged but she said she was praying that morning that someone would answer her prayer. She was very thankful that we stopped by. I am so glad I followed through on that impression and that through the spirit we were able to meet her needs. I am so thankful for the power of the Holy Ghost helping me teach these people everyday. 

This week I feel like everything was so busy and crazy. We have gotten 8 new investigators these past couple weeks and I feel like we just never have enough time. But then I was reading Elder Bednar's talk where he says "Sometimes we try to run so fast that we may forget where we are going and why we are running." I definitely feel like this week I was trying to run too fast and we were so busy doing what we thought we needed to do. But then we sat back and thought we just need to do this the Lord's way. 

President Eyring said "We can know which tasks, of all those we might choose, matters most to God and therefore to us." Truly what matters most to me is what God wants me to do and so as we prayerfully rescheduled our week we knew it was what God wanted us to do. I am so thankful for the power of prayer, don't know how people live without it. I am so lucky to be able to teach people about it everyday! 

Sister Stratford