It's been an awesome week with miracles, blessings, some sadness, but even more joy! I freakin love being a missionary, here's the highlights:
Amy - had a super good lesson with her about looking down the road. That's a good talk. She completely recognized what she was looking at right in front of her that was stopping her from going forward smoothly and she committed to coming to church. She still didn't but things are changing for the better. I'll follow up with her this next week.
Finding stories - so we were knocking this apartment complex and this lady in her car rolled down her window and asked for a Bible. I usually always carry one with me but we only had Books of Mormon at the time so we handed her one of those and talked about it. Super cool. Right after we knocked on another door and talked with another lady who had just started to build her relationship with God and really loved our message. So we will hopefully see both of them again soon. We found two more, one was already religious but was open to the message and seemed to be struggling a bit seeing God in his life, so hopefully we can help him. The other had us sit down and he told us his beliefs. We related with the similar things and made sure to really listen. We left each other with invitations and so hopefully next time his heart will be softened and he can hear what we believe.
Rileys - Super fun family, I've talked about them before. This week we taught the Armor of God and afterwards they brought us a few pieces of armor to try on so look at the pics!
Ryan - a miracle right here. A while ago I put a Free Book of Mormon and Bible on Facebook Marketplace. And I mean like in June. Then this Friday I get a text from this guy who is reading the Book of Mormon, on his own I think, and had questions. Super cool. If any of you remember Taira, my first baptism, I also met her from Facebook first, so hopefully something similar can happen or I can at least help him with his studying. Fingers crossed!
Transfers - we got transfer texts and sadly Elder Hansen is leaving Blaine. He's going to be my first companion I've only had for one transfer and I'm not a fan. He's freakin awesome and one of the best missionaries ever. I'm going to miss him. We'll see who the next one is next week tho.
Spiritual thought - this week for District Council we talked a lot about the efforts we put into finding people who are willing to listen, but one cool thought that was shared that I want to share with all of you is this:
God has promised to place prepared people in our path, but for that to happen someone had to help them be prepared.
We are all supposed to do that, missionaries, members, even non-members. As we show our love, example, and light we can help others be prepared to want to learn more. Earlier I talked about a Lady we met who had just started her relationship with God. Before that happened she had told us about a pair of girls (missionaries maybe) who shared scripture verses with her and how later her boyfriend invited her to church. All of those things helped her be ready for that moment, and I'm so grateful for them.
We can all help people to have that desire, or preparation needed to let the seed of faith grow. And I know you can all do it.
I love ya all so much! Here's the pics
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