Always Focus on the Postive! 11/19/12

Well hello my amazing wonderful family!! Good laws its so good to hear from yall! :) again we had another incredibly busy week! :) we had a zone conference with president Durant on friday all day! it was awesome! he told us a story about how his wife wrote him on him mission and how important keeping a eternal perspective on things is! and how important love is in missionary work, he said some quotes that i really like: " love listens, and remembers!" as missionaries its soooo important to listen to the people you come in contact with! and even more important to remember what they tell you! :) the next quote was from president Durant father ( George Durant ) president durrant called his dads phone and put it on speaker, and as his voicemail came up it said, " Hello this is George Durrant, im having the best day yet so far!" :) our attitudes are so important in our lives! ive really come to realize the importance of having a good attitude and being optimistic! :) this week me and elder Merrill had a truely incredible week! :) but last night my companion decided to look at all the negative things that had happened, such as we lost 2 investigators, or some of the ward members are so annoying... At that very moment i realized the importance of focusing on the Positive always just as George Durrant does. this week was truly amazing! :) monday evening we were coming back home to finish up the day by planning and such, and we went through the Walmart parking lot to get back home. well a car honked at us, so i just figured " oh they just want us to get out of the way, we are not supposed to ride our bikes in the parking lot. so we continued on our way, and then a second time the car honked again and a person in the car waved at us! so we waved back thinking it was some members saying hi! :) well the car honked one last time and pulled us over in a car wash, so we went over and come to find out it was a man named Greg who grew up in the church but got himself into trouble in his growing up years and had tattoos and had been to jail a couple 2, 3 times, and he saw us and stopped us and asked us if we could give him a blessing, right there in the middle of the car wash! :) it truly was a miracle! :) this week we've met with him twice and we are helping him to regain his testimony ! what a wonderful man! and what a wonderful oppertunity that the lord blessed us with! :) as well this week truely we have been blessed with the tender mercies of the lord so greatly this week! :) again its always important to keep a positive attitude! even with this great week my companion still focused on some of the negative experiences of the week! may i challenge us all to Always Focus on the Postive! :) this week look at all the great things we have all been blessed with! i love yall so much! im so grateful for the love and support you all have giving so graciously to me! :) i love being a missionary! love it! :) its so great to here about all yall back home!!! :)