This week was a slower week for us. We focused on how to work in Lake Nona, meeting the members who live there, and we continue to try to figure out how to help each other with our similar weaknesses. In this companionship, we both agree on what we don't like to do, so neither of us have the desire to push each other to do it. Sometimes, maybe it's a good thing, but sometimes, it isn't. So, we're trying to figure things out. Sigh...
We were able to go to a baptism for the ASL North Sisters. It was an investigator that I had helped teach. It was a great baptism. I helped sign interpret and voice interpret. If the need arises, I jump to it. I love to interpret. I want to help, but sometimes I worry I am helping too much. The baptism was great, though! It was the third baptism in Oviedo, so the work is really progressing up north! In our area, it's slow. My fear is because of three recent converts almost a year old and they are all less-active. If we can't retain them, how can the Lord trust us with more? They have a willingness, but they lack in fellowship and rides. We're trying to figure it out. It's hard.
But, President has been putting a lot of trust in me and has been asking me about the area and how things are going. I was able to write up a few pages with information on the area and my opinion on a few matters. It seems like new changes are on the horizon. The ASL Motto is "The Lord's Program", but I'm tempted to add another motto: "Changes are on the Horizon" because there is always something new. But change is good!
Also, I'm still tempted to get a GPS. But it'd be nice to be able to have it update by satellite, not computer because I can't just hook up to a computer for map updates. We're surviving, but it'd help to know how long it takes to get places and to find streets that aren't on our car map. So, if someone has an old GPS they don't use, I wouldn't complain getting that. But again, I can live without.
Well, gotta go! :-)
‘Make no small plans: They have no magic to stir man’s souls.’ This is the vision I have for the South. I believe that one day the South will baptize more people into the church than all other English speaking missions in the world together. There are great hosts of marvelous Baptists, and members of the church of Christ, Methodists and Catholics who are honorable people, and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and love him. As they see their church veering off to the right or to the left of these basic teachings, they will begin to search for the truth. And as pivotal teachers come into the church and have influence, we will see the time when we baptize hundreds and thousands, tens of thousands. In your day you will see a million members of the church in the South. There will be Temples plural in the Southern States. What a great call you have to serve with these marvelous people. ~Spencer W Kimball (1974)
