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Life is always CRAZY here in St Paul!!
We were crazy busy this week
because we moved 3 apartments! We are now living in the center of our area instead
of the edge, so that makes life SO much easier. We spent basically all day
moving furniture and packing up our entire apartment so they can close it.
Then, the next day we helped move in the Hmong sister missionaries to their new
apartment they got, and on Friday we did some service for a family in the ward
helping them move to a new house. So, if we keep going at this pace we will be
jacked by the time we go home😂.
We obviously didn't get as much
time this week for working, but within the all the craziness of moving 3 days
in a row, the Lord blessed us with some pretty sweet miracles!
1) After our move on Wednesday we
had a lesson with the member family we started teaching who want to come back
to church and start attending the Spanish ward. We taught them about eternal
families, and we sang the children's hymn "I am a child of God". The
spirit was really strong, and it helped to bring back some memories of their
conversion to the gospel of Christ. Leading up to the end, we planned to talk about
the importance of families being sealed for eternity in temples, and before we
said anything Jose says - "Yeah we had a goal to get sealed in the temple
a while ago but things just got in the way. We want to have that goal
again". We were like, well we can help you!!😁 haha. Super exciting!
2) After that lesson we had a
crazy night. We had a lesson with an investigator named Brenda who was a former
investigator who we ran into again at the food shelf we serve at. Long story
short, we lost her number and didn't have any way to contact her to reschedule
our lesson earlier that day. We both felt inspired to stop by later that night
to hopefully get in contact with her again. Not only was she home, but her
husband was also home this time and we had a really awesome lesson about the
Book of Mormon with them both! Yes!! So right after we walk out the door
of that lesson, we were just filled with joy from the spirit and the
opportunity we had to teach both of them. We go to the door to walk outside
when we saw flashing lights going off. All of a sudden some paramedics walk in
and there's a guy sitting on the steps super red and out of it. It happened to
be this guy we've seen two times before and contacted last week. They
start shooing us away saying they need privacy, but the guy couldn't speak
English so we offered to translate for them. It was crazy how the Lord led us
to be there with impeccable timing to help this guy get to the hospital.
And obviously God has placed this man in our path 3 times now for a reason,
we just need to find out why!
3) We had a tender mercy while
moving out of our apartment. We prayed that we still could be effective despite
having to spend all our time moving and what not. We were walking out to throw away
trash and this lady named Tracie comes up to us and we start talking to her.
She was really stressed and worried because her husband hadn't come back home
since the night before and she didn't know where he was. We offered a prayer
with her, asking Heavenly Father to help Him to be found with no harm.
Literally 3 seconds after I said amen, her friend pulls up in her car with none
other than her husband in the passenger seat!! It was probably the most
immediate response to a prayer I've ever seen!! The Lord truly does love us and
is aware of us in all of our moments of desperation. It's so comforting
knowing that the Lord will answer all of our prayers, big or small, as long as
we have faith!
We have also been able to give a
priesthood blessing just about every day for the past two weeks. Two hermanas
in our district are being transferred, one is going home and the other is going
to Rochester. We were able to give them priesthood blessings of comfort, and
we've had so many faithful members ask us for healing and comfort blessings!
I've gained such a testimony and gratitude for this authority we have restored
on the earth to literally be instruments in the Lords hands. After our
district meeting, as a goodbye, we had the classic Spanish missionary challenge...
Habaneros!! I downed four, and I basically died😂 straight got two hours of sleep that night lol. My companion on
the other hand went for the mission record and took the cake with 10!! Don't
know how he survived lol.
Just a quick thought from general
conference:
"Personal Sacrifice is an
invaluable force that drives our decisions and our determinations. Personal
sacrifice drives our actions, our commitments, and our covenants and gives
sacred things meaning." What can you sacrifice in your
life to better honor the sacrifice of the Son of God?
I love all of you and thank you
for all of your love and support!
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