He has not given us the spirit of fear

Greetings everyone from a finally snowy Nebraska.  Winter finally arrived, but I think spring is still fighting for supremacy.  One day it will be freezing cold, and the next it will be super warm.  It's crazy, but fun, haha.  So this past week we found another new family to teach.  I love teaching families.  They are "kind of" interested, and hard to get a hold of, but we had a really good Restoration lesson with them and hopefully they can see how this message really can bless their family.  As always, we've been striving to find like crazy. Saturday basically all we did was walk around and knock doors.  We found a couple of potentials.  The biggest problem we're having is trying to get investigators to progress.  Pretty much all of our investigators are pretty dodgy, and we're lucky if we get one lesson with them a week.  But we are striving to make daily contact with everyone to see if they are keeping their commitments and good times that we can teach lessons.  Wednesday we went up to Lincoln and had interviews with President Kunz.  During the interviews they had us do a role play lesson in front of a camera.  It was interesting to watch myself teach.  I learned a lot about things I can do better as a teacher.  Thursday I went on an exchange to Marysville Kansas with an Elder in my district.  It was a good exchange.  He is struggling right now.  He only has about 4 months left, and I think he's a bit burnt out, so we were able to have a good talk about missionary work.  A lot of the lessons we teach are with people who try to Bible-bash with us.  Not to sound cocky or anything, but most of them I would own in a Bilbe-bash.  But I refuse to do it.  All we can do is teach the Restoration and testify of it's truthfulness.  Until people except the invitation to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, I refuse discuss the fine points of religion.  Elder Gonzales is doing well and I'm still learning a lot of patience with him, haha.  But I always tell myself that I'm far from perfect so I can't judge at all. So the Spiritual thought this week comes from a talk I gave yesterday that I entitled, "He has not given us the spirit of fear."  Basically what it's talking about is that we know that our greatest duty as members of the Church is to preach the Gospel.  It's not something we have to pray and wonder about, instead it is a commandment that we should strive to tell everyone about the great blessings we receive from living the Gospel.  If we really do understand what is at stake, then we strive our hardest to tell everyone the great message we have to share.  We do not fear to talk about our beliefs because we love everyone.  Love is the opposite of fear, and as we strive to love everyone we strive to help them gain the blessings that come from the Gospel.  So hopefully we can all strive to share this message with everyone, wheather they are a member or not, and do everything in our power to help others come to Christ.  I love you all and hope you have an amazing week.  Godspeed, Elder Chandler Kendall