"Giant Baby Steps" Quote from Elder Davis this week

Elder Davis and I were teaching this guy yesterday and Elder Davis made the comment to this investigator that "You have to take giant baby steps!" The investigator and I gave him a hard time about that for a while. Think about that though and see how that applies to you in the gospel. Regardless of whether or not it makes sense, if you let the spirit work on it, it just might. 

This was a good week. We have another investigator getting baptized this weekend! This is really exciting because the New Castle Branch hasn't had any baptism since November of last year, then we get here and have two baptisms within the first transfer. I am really excited to be here. I am a little worried about this investigator. She is 88 years old and has slight dementia. She knows that the spirit has told her to be baptized in this church but she doesn't really have a testimony of Joseph Smith. We definitely have our work cut out for us to help her by this weekend. 

I was asked to give a talk this last Sunday and I was asked to give it on Saturday. Luckily, I enjoy speaking so I took the assignment without any complaint. I wrote it all during studies on Sunday. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough material to give a long enough talk for the branch. When I got up and started speaking though, I looked up at the clock and saw that 10 minutes had gone by and I knew that I needed to fill 5 to 10 more and I thought I had gone through more than half of what I had prepared, so I was a little worried. I just kept talking, trying to do my best to follow the spirit. The next time I looked up at the clock, 20 MORE minutes had gone by! When I finished my talk, I had spoken for almost 35 minutes! I couldn't believe that I had spoken that long! I sat down and there was still an intermediate hymn and another speaker. Sacrament meeting ran a little long that day, but I felt like I spoke by the spirit and said things that did help the branch. People were very complimentary of my talk. I was grateful that the spirit helped me make such an impact on the members here. 

I love this gospel and how Jesus Christ is able to enable us in everything that we do, even a Sacrament talk.

Thank you so much! I love you!

Elder Hayden Cannon