All Mission Picture from March.
I'm on the back row, just left of center by 3.
You can see my eyebrows.

It all started in a bar, the drinkers were giving us the funniest look and there were three people at the slots in the corner near the door. As I approached the bar itself and waited for the bar tender to come I leaned over to Elder Norton and informed him that he wasn't 21 and therefor was illegally inside the building. So the week didn't start inside a bar but we did go into a bar on Friday. Elder Norton and I were out tracting and we found a Samsung smart phone in the grass. We picked it up, turned it on and were shocked and disappointed that there were only four contacts saved in the phone. We took the phone home and during our lunch break we started going through it till we found a contact that seemed to be a close relative of the owner. Sure enough it was the sister, and they asked us to drop the phone off at a bar. I'll admit this wasn't the first time I had been in a bar on my mission; it might be the last though. We gave the phone to the owner and they tried to pay us but we both refused and then turned away and walked out the door. Smooth move for the Elders, we were teasing each other that we should download the LDS Gospel Library App onto the phone. That was Friday.

The rest of the week was amazing. We had so much success and we finally are starting to see the results that we had been hoping for; slowly but surely is the Lords way. We had our two top investigators come to church on Sunday. We tracted a street that yielded a perfect 100% on Saturday. We taught a lesson to every single resident on the street, set up a few return appointments and gave every home a Book of Mormon. I have never seen so much success on a single street. The street was short too, maybe 10 homes. If nobody was home then 10 homes would take us 10 minutes at most. But this short street filled two hours.

On Sunday as the Aaronic priesthood was passing the sacrament a thought came to my mind. A very simple thought, as simple as this: The Savior knows... The Savior knows all things. He knows why we are worried or scared or excited. He knows what we are worrying about or what we are excited about. He knows our thoughts, and He know when were sad. He knows our weakness and our mistakes, and he knows our strengths and our skills. He knows our prayers and our hopes. He is so perfectly aware of us and our surroundings. I guess what I got out of this is that since he knows perfectly, he can give perfectly too. Of course he won’t give that which is not beneficial to our spiritual progression. And he knows so much better than us that sometimes things are or are not given but we don't know why. Life really is in his hands.

Thank you for your prayers. Have an excellent week, good luck on finals!!!

Elder Luymes