Heyo!
This week was cool, we found some cool people to work with trying some potentials on our phone! We got like 3 yesterday who were open to us coming back and we only had like 2 hours to proselyte! The Lord was blessing us big time!!
I think something big that I learned this week from working with people is that we are never too far out of the Savior's grasp. Ever. There was an individual who just got baptized and was doing well but then went inactive because they made a mistake and felt like they couldn't come back becasue of it.
I think we all do this sometimes, we see how we mess up and then we try to do better but we keep messing up. Then as time goes on this process hurts and we feel that we are just out of reach of the Savior. I've experienced that myself. But I know two main things: 1. God expected us to mess up in this life, not only once or twice but over and over and over again. Obviously sin is not something we are proud of or should do on purpose but it is necessary in helping us learn and become better. We don't need to beat ourselves up for failing, just repent and try to be better. and
2. the Savior has already paid the price, for everything. Every single thing. He's already taken upon Him everything, so when we think we are out of reach of the Savior, we really are misunderstanding His sacrifice for us. It's not like if you repent you can't ever make that mistake again, to expect that of us would never let us grow. Again He's already paid for everything past, present and future. So He doesn't expect us to never mess up, even in our small mistakes. But He does expect us to try and be better because of His gift to us, He expects us to be willing to become better and come unto Him.
This is just something I've been learning my whole mission that is kind of coming all together. Line upon line, precept upon precept... I don't nearly understand the Savior's atonement, but I'm learning!
