Enjoy last week's email!
Hey!
This week was again super busy!
The coolest day was on Friday, we literally went from miracle to miracle all day! We have been trying to get in touch with this lady, Maybelle. She is from Columbia. She will always let us come talk to her but usually just says that she is super busy and to come another time. On Friday, we got to talk to her for like 45 minutes. It was a doorstep lesson and she did keep saying she was super busy, but she also kept asking us questions. And she had some super random ones like do we believe in pants and makeup for women. She and her family had taken the discussions when she was still living in Columbia. Apparently they were super close with the elders because she told us her whole family had been invited to their weddings later on. But it was such a miracle that we FINALLY got to talk to her and she was more open. I think that we got through a little more to her.
After that we went to try to contact a former investigator. Sister Harris knew him and had had a lesson with him before but he was put in jail for breaking parole and we hadn't gotten to meet with him (we didn't know where he was) since he got out. We had prayed right before we went to try him and we felt prompted to ask his aunt, who is a less-active member, if she had had any contact with him since he got out and she told us super vaguely where he may be. We went to the area she said and the first house we knocked a guy answered and we asked if Josh lived there. He said he didn't live there but Josh just happened to be there now. We talked to Josh and he is so prepared. He said he really wanted to come to church but he worked Sundays now. We asked if he had been praying since the last lesson. They had he said he prayed every day since the lesson. We asked if he wanted to take the lessons again and he just said "would every Thursday work that's my only day off". So amazing. He is so prepared, it's amazing.
Then we went to help Sister Thornberg. She is a less-active and they were taking part in the city wide garage sale that happened last weekend. We were going to help her get stuff to take out side for the sale. When we got there, her daughter (that we never met) was the only one outside and she was helping put a couch they just sold into a trailer. We told her that we were there to help and her daughter told us that they were done but the ladies with the couch might need help when they unloaded it. So we went to help the ladies with the trailer. We ended up making immediate friends with Jenny and Kari and it was such a miracle. Jenny runs the local Latino community center. We were looking for more ways to serve in the community and to learn some basic Spanish to communicate with the many Hispanic people we have been meeting. Jenny asked if we could start helping at the center and we asked if she could help teach us Spanish! We had to go back to Sister Thornberg's and when we got there, she was a little upset that we were over an hour late. Her daughter thought that we were there to help Jenny and Kari not to help them, so we helped Sister Thornberg. And her daughter just happened to be getting rid of a ton of clothes, so they made us take some of their clothes too. It was such and amazing day! One of the best on my mission!
One thing that we had really been trying to focus on this week was finding new investigators and we found Josh on Friday. We had exchanges on Saturday and we got 2 referrals on Sunday! The miracle of prayer and goal setting!
I hope that this week goes well.
Love you guys!
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