Wow. This week has just been filled with so many miracles. I dont even know where to start. Our investigators are doing so well!
This week we went on splits and they were pretty crazy. It took us a long time with traveling to split so we didnt have a lot of time to plan all of our programs. I now know why we really have a lot of time in the morning to plan....when you dont plan your programs dont go as smoothly. But I did learn quite a bit and we had a good time! I went with Sister Rupard so it was good to be with her again.
We also met with É and she is going to have to make a really hard decision of whether she wants to get married or not. It is a really hard decision and we have been praying for her a lot this week. She told us though after we talked about what she needs to do to be baptized, she read more than she has ever read out of the BOM before. She is doing so well, we just hope she can hang on when it gets rough.
Also this week we didnt really have a whole lot of time for finding so we tried to do some finding through the area book. We found this guy who really wanted to meet with us the next day and we thought it was going to be so cool! We asked Sister S to go with us and when we went to go find the guys house, we found out we read the directions wrong and were on the wrong side of town. So we got in a very nice, long run in the rain. When we got to the building, we buzzed into his apartment and found out that he was working even though we had talked to him the night before. So frustrating. But then Sister Smith said that another old investigator had been in that same building. So we tried to just buzz into someone who would let us into the building. This nice lady who was coming into the building finally let us in, but as soon as she let us in, there was a guy standing by the elevator and he started screaming and yelling at us that we were coming into the building. Sister Jensen and I were a little scared because we didnt really understand quite what he was saying, just that he wanted to get us out of the building. But Sister Smith, (she is used to not understanding people) just went right ahead and started walking up the stairs. Sister Jensen and I didnt really know what to do, so we just followed Sister Smith up the stairs while the guy was yelling at us. Luckily he didnt follow us and didnt call the cops. And we found and had an awesome program with E. She was going to be baptized last summer but her mom got really sick and had to stop investigating. She still had the BOM out on her table and a gospel principles book that she reads out of often. It was a really good program and she said she wanted to start meeting with the missionaries again.
Also this week, we experienced another miracle. We have been trying to visit an RCLA who the missionaries have not been able to visit for over 3 months. We ended up having just a few minutes and we got let into her building, she was home, and come to find out, she had been offended and was scared to come back to church. It was a really good program! And the timing worked out perfectly! Its amazing how sometimes you dont think you will have time to fit everything in, but when you put the Lord first, everything else fits right into place.
We also had 2 baptisms yesterday. It was a beautiful day yesterday and everything went perfectly! It was a yong 25 year old girl and an older lady who got baptized and they are really going to be a good strength to the branch. We decided yesterday that we were not going to walk the M girls to church but to see if they could get their themselves. Sacrament meeting started and the girls werent there. We were so sad!!! But about 15 minutes after it started they came!!! MIRACLE!!! We were so happy! And to make things even better, they were really good the WHOLE DAY long! They tooks notes during the talks, we got them ready to sing for mothers day next week in sacrament and they are super excited about that, and then they went with us to the baptism right after. All the members helped with them and the girls loved seeing the baptism. It was such a good day! And we are hoping their parents will come to see them sing next week. It was an awesome day at church yesterday!
We also met with the F family. They made us another delicious meal! And we talked about baptism with the father. All the family was there and also listening. It was a hard lesson. He really wants to be baptized but doesnt feel like he can have such a gift for him. They really are the greatest family. Anyways, we thought it was a really rough program, but we finally got F (the father) to say the prayer at the end and it was such a powerful prayer. The whole family was quite (even the 2 year old who had been screaming almost during the whole thing) and the spirit was so strong. During his prayer he stopped and then just said 'Lord, I promise I will be baptized and do what you want. Just please help me get there'. It was awesome!
Today we met with M. He is the coolest 19 year old kid ever! We had a really good program with him. He also asked us to pray for his brother today that his brother could get accepted into this school and he called us a little bit after his program to tell us that when he got home, his brother had gotten an acceptance letter in the mail from the school and the acceptance letter had come a lot earlier than expected. M was so excited to tell us! We were so happy for him.
Things have just been going so well with things. It is so hard - I really have never been so tired in my life. We are running and going all the time. But it is the best feeling in the world to really see the change that the Lord can bring into peoples lives. Being a missionary is the best! Love you all!
FAlslev Nővér
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