Hello everyone,
This will be short and sweet, I need to go play basketball,
because it’s been a while since I've ran... I'm so fat...
Anyways, this week has been great, the Holidays are really
really over, and we are back on track focusing on the work. The holidays were a
real distraction for us... but we have set new goals and we have our new year’s
resolution. And I have a lot of them.
We have been working really hard these last couple of weeks
and I've been trying so hard to BE EXACTLY OBEDIENT, like mom tells me every
email. The last couple of weeks I've been trying to do this, and they say if you’re
obedient you'll have success, and if you’re exactly obedient you'll have
Miracles. And this week I've seen miracles, the Lord has been blessing us so
much. Especially this week. We have contacted our butts off and knocked a ton
of doors, and we have found so many people to teach, when I say so many I mean
4. Which is a lot? We haven't found any new investigators in the last 5 weeks...
which is pretty sad. But we have found some pretty solid people. One of them is
named Carla; she is South African and has a young 6 year old daughter. She is
pretty, but is ready for the Gospel! We found her on the street and she needs
God in her life might I just say. We taught her the plan of salvation first,
and we answered a lot of her questions. She is super nice, we will be teaching
her on Friday and she will be coming to church as well as her daughter! So
cool! We also had another miracle, before I got to Redhill; the missionaries
have been teaching this Filipino guy for 5 months and was not progressing. I've
taught him a few times and he still wouldn't progress... we decided we were
going to drop him, but would visit him one more time. So we did, and I decided
to be really bold for the first time on my mission and guess what? He wants to
be baptized! So I learned by being bold but not over bearing you can get people
to commit. The guy’s name in Santos, he is 66 years old. He came to church
yesterday for the first time! And he loved it! I'm so excited! He doesn't have
a date to be baptized yet... because he wants to choose the date... but it will
be either this month or the beginning of February!
Another quick story about Santos... so we arranged a lift
for Santos to come to church, he can’t drive. So we had some close by members
pick him up, and before they did they called me and said they lost their car
keys....... of course... Satan is real... the members felt so bad, but they
obviously were still trying to find them. After we hung up the phone, I said a
prayer that they would find the keys, (keep in mind this is Santos first time
he said he would come to church), and 10 minutes later I got a call from
brother smith and he said he found them! He walked his dog that morning and I
guess the keys slipped out of his pocket, brother smith was walking the streets
by a golf course trying to find them. He felt prompted to ask some golfers if
they had his keys and they did! So wow! Miracles happen! The prayer was
answered! Brother Smith shared that story in fast and testimony meeting! It was
really good! He mentioned Santos in his testimony and I could see that it meant
something to him to Santos! There were many more miracles I could share, but I need to
go.
I love and miss all of you so much!
Thank you for all of your support, love and prayers!
Cheers!
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