The Skog Blog: The one where you just gotta get moving-even when it's hard 4/3/2018

Hi folks!

Last week we had some crazy fun times and also about 100 member appointments?? They forgot about us for a while and then suddenly remembered us so we didn't have as much time this week to find, but we used what we had and we saw miracles!...

Thursday we were able to work in our GML's garden, cutting down trees and pulling them out of the ground and basically working as men. It was a total blast. On our way back home to change and study we got a call from Biagio asking us if we were still planning on coming that evening. I explained that we didn't have an appointment and he told us that he knew that but that his nonmember wife wanted us to come over. So we did. And she made the best carbonara (they are italian) I have ever had. So so good. We had told Biagio about an Italian couple we had found thst wanted a book of Mormon. He disappeared into the other room and came back out with about 50 Italian pamphlets for all of the lessons. He muttered "I made a mistake, I didn't think think would send so many". We were dying, but now we have a ton of Italian pamphlets. Then he told us he had to go and bailed. We got to talk to Margeritha (his wife) and we had a lovely evening and were able to talk about Christ with her and it was just really nice. Then we booked it to meet with Niaga, and ended up eating with him as well. We thought we were going to die.

Friday I woke up feeling icky and tired and sick with 0 motivation to do anything but sleep. Buuuuuut, we decided to make a whole day of finding out of it and suck it up! We got let in twice! We had a man tell us that he has met with missionaries before so he knows what we are doing and we can come back this week! It was such a blessing and such a neat thing to see that when we really do sacrifice and do the Will of the Father, we are blessed and we can be instruments in His hands.

Saturday night, Richard and his kids, and Deyanira watched conference with us and the family Kamm! It was so wonderful and the spirit was so strong! Deyanira kept expressing how much she wants to be in the conference center and see it all in October, so she's going to try to come to Utah in October so we can go to a session together!

Sunday was full of AMAZING conference sessions, Sister Cook is a champ and we watched them all in German with German kids yanking on our hair and swishing water next to our ears, but we made it through. Now we are slowly listening to them again in English. It was such a powerful conference for those who didn't see it, check it out at conference.lds.org

Instead of ending with something from conference, I wanted to share something from my personal study in the Bible this week.

“Many wonderful [Church] members are in camouflage to their neighbors and co-workers. They do not let people know who they are and what they believe. We need much more member involvement in sharing the message of the Restoration. Romans 10, verse 14, puts this into perspective: ‘How then shall they call on him [speaking of the Savior] in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?’ Verse 15 contains the wonderful message referenced in Isaiah:

‘How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings’ (see also Isaiah 52:7). It has been observed that the members are going to have to move their feet and let their voices be heard if they are to achieve this blessing”

You don't have to be a "full-time missionary" to share the gospel. The people around you will respond better to YOU, than to two strangers showing up on their door, they will be more open to meeting two strangers with black badges that have the name of Christ, when you show them or help them see how wonderful the gospel is and how it can help them. Be involved in sharing the gospel. Recognize who you are and what you have, and don't be afraid to open your mouth. Share it with those you love, or those you meet.

(Pictures [more to come]: gelato! {If you look hard enough you can see the fear in my eyes because gelato contains lactose-which my body has recently decided to be intolerant towards}; Sister Marsha & I this morning {she is the perfect member of our dritt, she is such a cutie}; finding on Saturday- we talked to a man about the gospel, he said he didn't like when people do what we do and that he thinks it's rude and annoying- also that he'd never take anything from anyone, we'll he ended up giving us Lindt chocolate and taking a plan of salvation pamphlet and said he'd read it. He also told us we were very nice and to keep it up.