Watch Out For Snakes

Yeah so miracles have not ceased, this week had heavy evidence of that over here in Arizona. Couple quick ones and one not so quick one for ya 👇👇👇
1. We live right next to an open desert so we love to go ride our bikes and explore. We came across 2 rattle snakes this week, both times they were right next to our tires. But both times their tales were facing us, and not the head!
Lesson Learned – Watch out for snakes 
2. On Sunday we were able to go bless the sacrament in the home of a recent convert. Her and her mom that partook of the sacrament broke down crying. They had not had it in a couple weeks and went on to express their gratitude for the ability to still renew their convenvants. The spirit was felt so strong. 
Lesson learned – Do not take for granted how special and blessed the opportunity is to partake of the sacrament. 
3. Alright here is the short version of a long story – Earlier this week we were messaging a bunch of people on Facebook, trying to share a message. Nothing came from it initially, but a couple days after I got a message back from a guy saying he liked talking about God. We were able to set up a video call with him later that night. As we got to know him, we come to find out he lives in Nigeria in a mostly Muslim area. It is pretty difficult to Christian over there he said. As we slowly start to share the message of the restoration with him, we get to the story of Joseph Smith and the connection drops! We cant get ahold of him! He then texts us saying all of his data ran out from our call. We were super bummed but determined to teach this guy, so we asked if we could tell him about Joseph Smith through text. He eagerly said yes and we were able to tell him about Joseph’s experience and how we have the book of mormon today. After he accepted our invitation to read about pray about it. By some miracle, as we were looking on member tools, there is a church building just 15 minutes from his house over in Nigeria. We were able to get in contact with the bishop of that area through Facebook to go reach out to him in person. 
Lesson Learned – The Work will go forward! 
I love you all thank you for being my buddies the church is true 
♡Elder Ballard