FAM!
Hey! How is
everyone? Thank you so much for all of your pics and emails. They really keep
me going each week! Let’s see, yesterday we got the call for our transfers
and......haha no change. I am positive that the Lord wants us to be together
for a reason. And if we work with all our hearts, minds and strength we will
find why we were meant to be companions for this time!
Well, this week
has been a little bit of a struggle with appointments falling through and such.
But its ok because there were lights at
the end of the tunnel! You just have to look for them. There were some mini
miracles that happened this week. Many of them were with inactives.
There is an
inactive single mom who has two kids who live in conditions that are extremely
extremely poor. The kids maybe eat two slices of bread and one glass of milk
each day. And at times I don’t think the mom eats. But despite this, she
has the desire to completely change spiritually. She has made many mistakes in
her life and because of this she hasn’t entered the ward for 12 years now. She doesn’t
feel worthy enough to attend. However, wow, this last Sunday as my companion
and I waited at the door of the ward house, the time had passed to enter but
all of the sudden as we began to walk back. We heard the voices of her two
little kids behind us. It was such a spiritual experience to watch her walk
into the Sacrament room, after 12 years of inactivity. This day was her day to
change. The Lord gave us a miracle that day.
Another really
cool experience I had was with another inactive. She is 21 years old and is the
daughter of the former Bishop who is extremely strict and I feel like this is
part of the reason she fell away from the church these past two years. She has
been going to a university and hanging with people who are not at all keeping
with the standards of the church. She has not wanted anything to do with us
these past few weeks. But one day we really felt impressed to go visit this
family, and sure enough she was there. We all sat down with her and the parents,
and the funny thing was as we began to talk, the parents slipped out of the
room haha. We began to ask her questions about God, and if she thought she had
a potential. There were questions that came out of my mouth that were not my
own. And it came to the point where she began to cry and told us her desire to
change the direction of her life. Once again, this was another miracle that
Heavenly Father gave us this week. The
light at the end of the tunnel!
Yesterday, we
headed to a house of an inactive member but when we knocked on the door a young
girl answered to tell us he wasn’t there. AH dang we thought. But right then we
got the feeling to go in and share with her this message. It’s hard to say this
but I think she has been the most prepared person spiritually that we have
taught. As we asked her questions about her faith in God and what she wants for
her life the spirit has never been so strong. And during that whole time I just
thought that she is one of the people just ready to accept this gospel. And at
the end of the lesson she asked "When can you come back?" What a
miracle. I know Heavenly Father wanted us to find her and he led us there.
Funnies of the
week: As we went to teach another less-active,
he answered the door with black hair all over his hands. And guess what he was
doing? Skinning, by hand, cuies . . . rats. Yep. And all of the cuies he had
dehaired were sitting in a vat of water. Dead. Mmmm lovely.
Another one was,
as we were reading the BOM with a less-active mom. All of the sudden her son
who is 12 years old, who could probably pass off as a nose-guard for the NFL, walked
in the front room with his tiny little towel just to get a snack to eat in the
shower, he told us. Haha wow. These little things just make my day. Heavenly Father
definitely has a sense of humor.
Well, that was
my week! The big thing that I learned from this week was that in our lives,
amidst all the disappointments, we always have to be attentive, always watching
for the small tender mercies of the Lord each day. If we look, and have hope, Heavenly
Father will always put a light at the end of the tunnel, even if it is hard to
recognize at first.
I love you all
so so much and I miss you more than I could ever say. Thank you for your
prayers, I can feel them each day. Talk to you next week! Keep smilin!
Love, Jess
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