August 4, 2014 ~ тишь, мир, покой

Well this week was not quite so exciting. Actually it was a rather hard week.  Lots of trials kept popping up, but I really felt how the Lord directly supported me as I prayed and continued to study the scriptures even more.  Like the whole week was just really rough.  But then at the end of the week we had some really nice miracles happen. 

First was this family that we met.  Actually we met the wife in our appartment building and she immediately knew exactly who we were.  She started to talking to us in English and actually speaks pretty well.  We invited her to our english group and she said she couldn't cause she has a baby, but then she was like, you guys can come over saturday evening if you want.  My mouth dropped a little bit.  So we went over there and she and he husband and their 2 little kids were all there.  We had a pretty good meeting with them.  They are 7th day adventists who live in the appartment building right next to ours.  They were so nice and it was pretty cool.  They invited us back over the next week too!  They may have some great potential!!  And it's a whole family!!

Then we quickly went over to the branch to meet this one family from Georgia (the country, not state) that we have been helping weekly with English.  The sisters found them last time I was in Petergof and they have been coming faithfully since then.  So when I came back I decided it was time to stop messing around with them and really try to work more with them and help them see how the gospel can bless their family.  They also have huge potential!  

So I thought about what I was going to say for the spiritual thought the whole week and it ended up going really well.  I felt like the spirit was really pretty powerfully testifying and it was just great.  Then afterwards the mom was like "wow, you just said everything the way it actually is and it really make me start thinking"  (I could kinda tell towards the end that she had stopped focusing so much on what I was saying and looked rather lost in thought.  Oh it was so cool!!  Then she told me after that about 4 times how they remember me from last time I was here and they are really happy I came back.  It made me feel good haha.  Then we gave them a copy of the proclamation to the world and she seemed really excited about it.  I left that lesson really pleased and I really feel like we were able to make some progress with them.  I hope we can actually officially start teaching them the lessons soon!  (I already made them a teaching record:))

That's pretty much it. Really this week I just learned again how Satan really wants to attack us and bring us down at any chance possible, but more importantly I relearned that God is stronger than satan and if we will "cast our burden" on the lord fully, he will strengthen and lead us.  

"И вы воззовете ко Мне и пойдете и помолитесь Мне, и Я услышу вас.

И вы взыщете Меня и найдете, если взыщете Меня всем сердцем вашим"
Sorry I don't  know the actual words in English, only in Russia (I think that's right, I was going off memory) but it's Jeremiah 29:12-13 if your interested.

This scripture has really had a huge impact on me lately and really helped this week.  

Elder Robison