Hermana Adams in Alabama: Up high, Down low

Transfers!! Sister B is home. Hermana F
is here!! My new companion is so awesome. She's 4'11'' with 6 feet of energy for missionary work!! Sorry, that's lame. But she is really cool. She just came from the Spanish branch and so we've decided to try to start a small English class at the Gardendale building. It's such a relief to have someone else that can speak in Spanish to people.

I want to share something that our mission president wrote to us this week :

"As a young boy, I would often go fishing with my brothers and friends. One of the primary principles of fishing is that when you hook a fish, you must keep the line taut (tight) or the fish will get away. If you reel in the fish too quickly, the line will break. If you reel it in too slowly, the fish will swim toward you, create slack in the line, and escape. It is an art to keep the line taut, not reeling in too quickly but quickly enough.

As fishers of men, the principle is similar. When you get a great investigator, daily contact is how you keep the line taut. If you go too long between contacts, they will lose interest, forget what the spirit felt like when they were taught, listen to their friends without you around to support them, and you will generally lose them to the world."

He was of course talking about investigators, but I think this is so applicable to any sort of missionary work! The Lord wants to make us fishers of men, and I know if we follow that principle we will see success in our lives :)