Hermana Ogles, Hermana Gonzalez in the Texas heartland

While Daring Greatly in Portales, NM

This week the new knowledge came in a truck full en vez de a bucket load. Each day we learn more how to take advantage of each day and how to live up to our potential. Each day we are giving the chance to dare greatly.

WHILE DARING GREATLY
it is not the critic who counts; not the man who points how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; hose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who knows the great enthusiasm; the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat! -Theodore Roosevelt

It is ALWAYS better to have tried and failed then to never have taken that leap of faith.

Each day we learn how to give it our best. Winston Churchill said, " There is a moment when God taps you on the shoulder, when He calls you to do some great work, if you are ready for that call in destiny it will be your finest hour."

Are we always ready to serve the Lord? Will we be ready when God taps us on the shoulder to do some great deed, even if it is simply helping, listening, serving other of His children?

"The Lord does not ask about our ability or inability but ONLY about our availability and if we prove our dependability the Lord will take care of our capability" - Elder Neal A Maxwell

If you are ready for your "tap" on the shoulder and available to serve other of God's children you will find it will be your finest hour and God will help you do your best.

This week we have stopped teaching A LOT of people. Often people can see us as the "traveling church", but if they won't come to church or read their scriptures, we can't take up valuable time teaching them when others are looking to make changes. So we are out on our bikes everyday....haha I wish I could send you photos...we close our eyes when we ride past windows.....we just look ridiculous....

Also one of our investigators with a baptism date was care flighted to Lubbock this week, with heart failure. It came as a Huge surprise and we hope the Elders up there can keep teaching her!

This week we also drove to Causey (tiny town built around a dairy about 45 min away) to visit the Less Actives that live up there. The map quest a member printed out took us a good 30 min past the house. We were out in the middle of the TX heartland and finally stopped to ask for directions. That is where we took these pictures!

Sister Gonzalez is also suddenly very strict in helping me learn Spanish. She decided she had not been correcting my grammar mistakes enough and now is on a Spanish rampage....haha The other night I was saying our night prayer in Spanish when I heard scratching noises....I looked up to see her writing down my grammar mistakes in the prayer....I couldn't help break out laughing...haha

General Conference is coming up! I am SO excited! Everyone, it is NEVER to early to start inviting people and thinking of questions you would like answered!

Remember everyone is a child of GOD - "you have never looked into the eyes of a mere mortal"

LOVE YOU ALL! Keep going strong and always put God first, I PROMISE it will make your life 100 times easier :)