It's Winning Time

Okay everyone. This week has been a blast! On Tuesday night, right after our p-day ended, Elder Casablanca and I decided to knock as many houses without any record there as possible. We ended the last hour of that night with 5 finds and 5 lessons! It was sweet to see the miracles that come from being diligent and not going home early. Now, only time will tell how well they will progress. 

A miracle I saw on Sunday, just before everyone showed up for church, was actually amazing! A member we had talked to a few times around an apartment complex called me over. He said that he had prayed to know what he was supposed to do or how he could better serve the Lord and got the answer to "be a missionary". He asked me how he could be a missionary right now and I said that we could get him some pamphlets to pass out to the people he talks to. It might not seem like much but that changed my whole day!

Also on Sunday, one of the members of the bishopric in one of our wards gave a talk and used the story of Punchinello in the book You Are Special by Max Lucado. It is an amazing story about how we all sometimes get so caught up in what the world thinks and says that we forget who made us. We forget why we are here. We forget that what really matters is what God thinks of us, not the world. I don't think I have ever read this story or heard it until now but it is an amazing one and I would encourage everyone to read it!

Now. The title of this email is something that our mission president told the Zone at the end of our exchanges last night. He told us that it is winning time. He told us that the mission has been slacking lately and that we need to get back on track. Just because we got some amazing success in July just before the old AP's left, doesn't mean that we are done with our part. We still have to do the work. It doesnt stop just because some new missionaries came in and some old ones left. It keeps going. It goes on with or without us and I would prefer to be with it.

It has been an interesting week but I have loved most of it! Can't wait for the next one!

Grant Williams

Photos!
Some cats we saw on the Reservation on exchanges!
The eye of sauron.... 
Some cool fall trees
Grandpa! I found your old home when you lived here!
A cool sunset
Some kids we talked to that were shooting airsoft guns at Clay pigeons! 
And the meme!









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