Miracles

Monday, August 1, 2016
Okay.  I'm going to try to be more informative this week.

First things first. We teach some people in Spanish and I can totally understand what's going on but cannot add much, and mi Hermana is leaving me in a few short weeks and I don't know if I'll have a Spanish speaking companion after that... SO I asked President for permission to start learning Spanish and got the green light.  Which is pretty funny.  

Man, I never know what to even say, I feel like so much happens every week and it's a little bit discouraging to try and plan on telling y'all everything because that's just not going to happen. You'd think these were things I would have worked through at this point in my mission life. Guess not.

Miracle number one from this week: We found this woman named M___ who was dumpster diving because she just moved from Columbia and she was only able to bring 50 pounds of stuff with her. We helped her bring her treasures back to her apartment and talked to her about our calling and she hugged us a lot and she said we could come back and share a message. But we weren't able to set a specific appointment because she wasn't sure when her sons were going to have work and stuff (sorry if this isn't making any sense, I'm typing fast) ... so we went and passed by once and she wasn't home and then on Saturday (I think) an appointment fell through so we decided to go to M___'s and she was just on her way out of the apartment to go for a walk. We walked with her and she told us that she told her son when she was leaving that she was just going for a walk, but that really she was going to talk with God and that when she saw us, she knew He had answered her prayer.  We made a return appointment for the following day and brought her a Book of Mormon and when we pulled it out she started crying and she said that her birthday had just passed and she had prayed and asked God for a book of scripture to help her strengthen her relationship with Christ. She had only been able to bring a section of the New Testament with her from Columbia and she felt like she needed more.  So that was cool.  God is super nice.  I'm sure glad our appointment fell through on Saturday.

I am very, very grateful for the experiences I have to see God working in the lives of his children. We have a Father in Heaven who loves us very much!

Miracle number two was with a couple from Columbia (that's been a theme this week) (Quebecois people are generally less open to talk about religion than...not Quebecois people).  Long story short, they met a member of our branch when they were visiting Quebec before moving here three months ago.  As in they moved here three months ago, and they were visiting like five months ago.  So they met Frere P___, and he invited them to meet the missionaries and they've been super busy with the moving life BUT we had an amazing lesson with them this week and after teaching the whole Restoration, Y___ (the wife) was like "I agree with everything you've taught." And then we invited them to be baptized and they said yes so we'll see when that happens ... but yeah, good stuff.

Sister Training Leader life is way good times, We had Mission Leadership Council this week and my main impression has been "Cool, I totally know what I'm doing." which is a lot better than the alternative.

I sure love you all, I hope this has been a satisfactory update, next week I'll plan on going back to writing about what I've been studying and thinking about.

Souvenez-vous qui vous êtes ♥ 

Mission Leadership Council July 2016