In
all seriousness though, we have seen tons of miracles. On Wednesday we
set a goal of finding three new investigators, it felt right but I was a
little skeptical because we had two meetings, service and all of our
normal studies taking up most of our day. BUT the Lord always helps us
with our righteous desires and helped us, in that limited time, find
three and a half investigators! The half comes from a family that
doesn't know they are investigating yet, but we are totally coming back
because they are such a cute little family. We knocked on the door and
this little girl, probably about 6 years old, pop up in the window. She
stares us down for a good 7 seconds and then opens the door. I guess she
thought we looked friendly enough, so she invited us in! We asked if
her parents were home and she said her mom was in the shower, and before
we could say we would come back later she says "I'll go get her!" So we
waited haha and could hear them yelling back and forth "who is it?" "I
don't know." She ran back and just kept talking to us, despite our many
attempts to tell her we would come back later, but we couldn't just
leave her standing there with the door open. She actually came out on
the porch with us and was just talking away! We finally convinced her to
go back inside and shut the door. We were dying, I love kids. Thank
goodness her judgement was right and we were nice people. We are
definitely going back.
The
other morning we felt impressed to go try and see this awesome girl we
met a little while ago who has a crazy schedule and we are never able to
set up lessons with. Well, as soon as we parked in front of her house
she came out the door! And what was even better, she had a day this week
we can meet! God definitely puts us exactly where we need to be if we
are willing to listen.
Last
one. We had a great lesson with one of our investigators the other
night. He had some concerns with baptism in the past, not understanding
why he would need to be baptized again. Well, before we even started
teaching in our lesson, he was excited to tell us about what he had
learned from his Book of Mormon reading. He is reading 2 Nephi 31, and
he gets it! He understands why it is important, that it is a commandment
from God and a way we can follow the example of our Savior. He even
asked us how soon he could be baptized! He definitely has a long way to
go, but he has that desire now and got it from reading the scriptures!
I
wanted to leave you with a thought from New Missionary Follow Up
Training (which was a blast!) First off, I can't believe Sister Holdaway
has been here for a month! Crazy stuff. Anyways, the training was
really focused on faith and something that the spirit taught me was that
faith is being able to say "I will" before "I can." There will be many
times in our lives when we will be asked to do something and we won't
know if we can do it based on our own knowledge or abilities, but we can
exercise our faith by saying that we will do it anyways and trust that
we can with the Lord's help. That is something I am learning a great
deal about, and trying to put into practice more and more everyday. I am
by no means perfect, but I am grateful that my Savior is and will give
me strength to do all things. It is only through faith in Him and a
willingness to act that we have been able to see miracles like these.
I hope you have a wonderful week, just keep smiling!
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