"It's easy to become discouraged when we try to chart progress form our mortal perspective. It's easy to become discouraged with visiting teaching if we don''t see results, if we don't feel friendships forming, if we don't think our efforts are appreciated or even wanted, and if we sometimes feel annoyed at the inconvenience. It's easy to feel that we have no effect at all. Yet for most intents and purposes, the gospel 'distills' on us in nearly indiscernible increments through our monthly visits to each other, our weekly contacts at church, and our daily prayers on behalf of each other. Few perspective have been more helpful to me than to remember that the Lord;s love 'distills' upon us as manna, and that manna comes daily.
...Our growth is small, sometimes indiscernible-but our potential for growth is great."
Lynn Jaynes
If we would think about our efforts to help people become more self reliant as they learn about the gardening program and watch them and their gardens grow, perhaps we could rely more on the Lord's time table. Each seed takes time to grow with water, all the other things we add and sunlight. So it is with our testimonies. Conversion is a process and the Lord is in charge of when that will happen. So let us simply rejoice that we can be a part of that process. Be patient and remember,'...by small and simple things are great things brought to pass"
I posted these pictures on FaceBook but thought it would be good to post them on here, so I have a better record.
Elder Olson drives 50 + miles one way to reach this family... They are in the nethermost part of the vineyard, but the pictures say it all.
Elder & Sister Olson
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