Los Milagros

This week we went on exchanges twice and had zone training so we were busy, I would talk more about that except that nuestros milagros (our miracles. she switched to Spanish :)) were pretty unrelated.

So, milagro 1) Mariana hasn't come to church yet because she works on Sundays so we've been working on that with her but she's been afraid to talk to her boss about it. But she came to the women's session of General Conference on Saturday at the church and it was definitely a turning point for her. The closing song brought half of the relief society to tears, starting with Mariana. We can tell someone a million times that they have to come to church and they have to do this and that, but it will never replace their own experiences with the Spirit.

2) I don't remember if I've talked about Kody and Sally but they're awesome, Kody has participated much more in lessons so we've been trying to gauge how Sally is feeling about things. We felt like we should pass by them during the week (normally we have a lesson with them every Saturday) and it was perfect, Sally said "You know, I'm just about sure now that this church is true, I just have some questions about temples." She had known members of the church back in Togo and had always felt like the temple was a big scary secret. So then on Saturday, we brought a member that they got along well with and taught the Plan of Salvation, connecting it to the "why" and "what" of temples. Turning point for Sally.

3) I'm pretty darn sure I haven't talked about Franco, but he was a former that we started teaching a few months ago who has known about the church for years and years, and long story short, he came to church for the first time this week! Milagro.

We're feeling pretty good about how people are progressing. Ironically enough, the list of investigators with baptismal dates and the list of our most progressing investigators is not the same list of people. But, we're definitely not complaining.

I've been studying about faith, by the way. I've learned a lot about the powerful motivation that faith IS, not that it encourages or cultivates.

I don't remember if I said this last week, but I think I'm done fearing man more than God. Time is too short to waste.

Also, I'm not willing to admit how much ice cream I ate this week.

I love you all so much, keep making miracles happen, you're in my thoughts and prayers.
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