FORT the WORTH of Souls: I thought this would be a short email

Transfers this week- Sister Hart and I are staying in azle!

-Jo is getting baptized!?!? I heard from Sis liechty that our friend Jo in Decatur is getting baptized! I have no info other than that but I'm so excited! She's been so prepared and I know that when she commits she'll be committed for life I might be heading back to Decatur pretty soon for a lil visit!!

-a few steps from baptism for Marty. I don't want to say too much about Marty right now, but he's so close! Satan's really been working hard on him lately but he keeps fighting back. His desire to get baptized is testimony strengthening.

-"Sting Fling" Sis Hart and I were outside for 3 hours and this thing. We got good food, a parade, and a weiner dog derby! Super fun! And we met some people too :)

-beautiful lesson with ima. It was really scary. On Tuesday we tried to meet with our friend Ima. She let us in and we were talking, but as soon as we tried to read from the Book of Mormon, she said maybe next time, got up and led us to the door. We were sooooo scared that that was gonna be it! But we were afraid for nothing. We went back a few days later and the first thing she does after inviting us in is grab her Book of Mormon from her drawer. We read 3 Nephi 17 with her and she loved it. I got to bear my testimony to her of Jesus Christ. I think that was the first time she realized we had the same Jesus because she said to us that "my Jesus is with yall" it's a step :)

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT- I got into a bad habit. I'm don't like to call myself a perfectionist, but when things aren't going my way, I go crazy!!! For a good part of this week, that's all I could see. Everything wasn't working how I wanted, and I couldn't see why God's will wasn't the same as mine. That's how prideful I get sometimes. BUT, God of course knew that, and he's been teaching me some lessons this week.

I was thinking about Jacob 5. In the back of my mind there was always a part that was strange to me. Usually it's the Lord of the vineyard who wants to keep trying to save his vineyard. But there's one part when the Lord is ready to hew it down, and it is the servant that says to spare it a lil longer:

49 And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said unto the servant: Let us go to and hew down the trees of the vineyard and cast them into the fire, that they shall not cumber the ground of my vineyard, for I have done all. What could I have done more for my vineyard?

50 But, behold, the servant said unto the Lord of the vineyard: Spare it a little longer.

I love how much this shows about the character of the servant. He knows its going to be hard, that this will be the hardest work in the vineyard so far, and yet asks to do the work. I think that's beautiful. The missionaries been hard, but there are people prepared for this gospel.

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Also, I loved this scripture in Joshua 14:12 about Caleb. He had so much faith in God that he said to Joshua "Give me this mountain" again, that's just beautiful to me.

Anyway, these are my half baked thoughts haha.

How can you increase your faith in God this week?