Hi Everyone!

So not too much happened this week, just the usual stuff. One cool thing that Happened are dinner policy changes. Originally, we could only have 1 hour dinners on Monday through Wednesday, unless a family brought a nonmember to the dinner, then we could have it any day of the week. No we can have dinners any day of the week, and we have an hour to eat and half an hour to teach a lesson in order to practice our teaching skills. I'm pretty excited for that, now our meal roster is starting to fill up a bit more. That mean's that we get more practice teaching! And of course, more food too, that's always good.

We also had a small miracle happen this week. We went to this compound of units to see if we could find a less active and see how they were doing, and we were having trouble finding the unit this person lived in. We asked this lady who was walking by where the unit was and she said "oh that's my unit", but she told us that the less-active had moved out. Then, out of nowhere she asked us for a bible, but we didn't have a spare bible so we gave her a Book of Mormon. She seemed very interested, and she is also letting us come to her place next Friday to cut her grass for her! Yeah, it seems kind of small, but after doing tons of door knocking with not much results it was cool to find someone like her.

It's also been starting to rain quite a bit more, and it's always quite nice door knocking in the rain. Everything just seems a lot more peaceful and quieter. Also, people tend to have a bit more sympathy for us, and one man even invited us into his house to have some water and just talk a bit, so that was nice.

I guess the spiritual thought for today is a scripture that an RM shared with my companion and I just the other day. It's 1 Nephi 7:12, which reads, "Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him? Wherefore, let us be faithful to him". I think that can apply to all of us. Sometimes we forget that we can rely on the Lord, and we try to rely on our own strength and wisdom. It's important to remember that the Lord can do anything according to His will, we just need to have faith and rely on him. That's something that I've been learning about a lot on the mission. If you try to rely on your own human talent and strength, you probably aren't going to affect very many people's lives out here. But if you rely on the spirit and on the Lord, He'll strengthen you and guide you, and you'll be much more successful in whatever you do. Anyways, I hope that made sense. Thank you all again for your emails, your love, and your support!

Sincerely,

Elder Ho