Ward Baby-Sitters

This week, I learned one very important thing: Christ is the answer. If everything that we do is centered around Him, we will never go astray, and we will always know the answer. 

This week, my companion and I had the privledge of talking to someone with severe anxiety in the middle of an anxiety attack. She paced back and forth, screaming, grabbing her head, before falling to the ground and gasping for air. I did not know what to do. But I found that as we turned to Christ, He became her answer. We began to testify of Christ, and shortly after, pray in Christ's name. As the words of the prayer continued, she started to breath a little slower, until she gathered enough strength in her body to sit up. I know that God is aware of all of His children, and His son, Jesus Christ, is the cure and the answer to any problem or challenge. 

This week, our ward gave me and my companion one responsibility: find all of the youth and children that were baptized in the last two years, teach them, find out why that aren't coming to church, and report back. So it's safe to say that this week, we talked to a ton of children and their parents. This also entailed walking to the furthest, most dangerous parts of our area. We were literally hiking mountains getting to these children. Call us the ward baby-sitters.

We've been recently focusing a ton on strengthening the youth in our ward. We've been doing visits with them multiple times per week, doing weekly activities, and giving them all of our attention. This included a dodgeball night this week where I totally destroyed a bunch of youth. But I've definitely learned that the key to a growing ward is the youth. If the youth are happy, the ward is happy. 

Recently I've been super bored in the office. I don't know why, but I just can't find anything else to do. So this week I decided to take on a another responsibility and mess around with the mission's statistical spreadsheet. Basically, this spreadsheet just contains the numbers for each area per week. (and gets cleared every week) Well this week, I took it upon myself to try and update this spreadsheet, so the leaders can have a history of every area and see the graphed trends of their zone. This was probably the most fun and most teadious thing that I've done in this office. I'll keep you updated on how it goes this week. 

Yesterday, my companion and I were asked to be ward receptionist, and we totally missed an ex-member of the seventy give a fire talk. I never want to be ward receptionsist again. 

Well that it for this week! I hope you are all doing super well! I miss and love all of you! Have a fantastic week!

Elder Ware