Never give up, Never surrender!

I can't believe it snowed AGAIN! People were telling us that there wouldn't even be an inch accumulation, and then we get hit with 8 inches!! Is it March or what?? I feel like it's still December! So our preparation day was cancelled yesterday, and that's why my blog is coming in a day late. So many wonderful things have happened. I'm at one of those points where you feel like it's just too good to believe :) We've been meeting with this young man in his mid 20s that works at the local Chinese supermarket in Rockville. Our English class teacher met him while she was looking for treats for the class and tried to ask him for help. His English is very poor and so she invited him to come to the class, then he came! He was also interested in learning about our church and Christianity in general. He had questions like, 'Why do so many people worship Jesus Christ? What did he do that was so special?' As we have taught him about the restored gospel, he has come to be very interested in the doctrine of Jesus Christ. He feels like he needs forgiveness in his life for some of the things that he has done. That is a universal feeling, for there isn't a single person other than Jesus Christ that will not sin. We all make mistakes, that's the reality of it. But as we turn to Christ, we can have power to change, and power to be redeemed for those wrongs that we did. We're actually going to still meet with him today because we made an appointment last week! Yesterday we were told to continue to do missionary work, but we couldn't use our cars. That's so tough when our area has a 20 mile radius. But our good friends Paul and Celia only live 3 miles away, so we decided to brave the elements and make the walk through the snow! It got really tiring, but we made it within 40 minutes. By the time we got back home, we were so tired! But we knew we needed to go back out and try working more. This time the roads were pretty clear so we could use our car. We saw this jeep spin out of control on this off ramp, but we were safe! Nobody wanted to meet with us, and it came to be 8:21pm. Usually we are supposed to work until 8:30pm, but nothing was happening! And it would take at least 10 minutes to drive home anyways, I was ready to call it a day. But my faithful companion 公孫長老 pressed onward! We went to visit one more member. We knocked for a few minutes, and there were two women inside that were ignoring us. Eventually with some persistence the man came to the door and he invited us right in! We got to meet 2 new friends and share about the Book of Mormon. That was such a treat! I definitely learned my lesson about always sticking out to the very end. Always choose the higher road, the journey is so much more blessed :)