Our district went on a hike to celebrate memorial day. :)
Wow!! What a week. This week, I discovered I have the most spiritually in-tune companion in the mission. On Tuesday, we were driving towards the Relief Society activity when she suddenly pulled over. "This is the house of a potential we haven't been able to find home in weeks," she explained. Not only did we find him home, he was outside with his wife and grandson, as though waiting! We set a return appointment. Hermana Oliphant was very humble: "I just felt like we needed to stop!" She told me. :)
On Wednesday, we were guided to go try a part-member family. For twelve weeks, they had thought there was no house there, just a field, but when Elder Cota was on exchanges with Elder Rivera, we discovered that the house was in the BACK, so you had to drive in to see it, which thing we had never supposed. It was a miracle we saw them at that time, because the father was about to leave for work, and we'd put them as a back-up plan for our 7:00 pm appointment, so if we'd waited, it would have been too late. And besides, the 7:00 appointment was there - two recent converts and their little daughter, Megan, so if we hadn't gone to see the Vasquez family when we did, we wouldn't have found them at all!
On splits, we were able to contact a less-active lady the English sisters had been trying to find, but until Friday, they could only ever find her kids. It was late- about 8:15 at night. This sister, Margarita, walked out with a box of Church materials to give to us: Books of Mormon, Ensigns, and pamphlets. She told us, "I don't want to be Mormon anymore - your religion is to hard." Instead of exploding into a fiery tirade of scriptures, testifying, teaching, and pleading on bended knee with her not to leave the Church, as was my first inclination, we started asking her questions, such as, "How did you feel when you prayed about it?" and "Why did you decide to join the church in the first place?" Come to find out, she was a recent convert of about 3 years, and she joined because of encouragement from her husband. Not long after, this husband began to abuse her and her daughters, resulting in a messy divorce and a broken family. We then testified boldly of how much her Heavenly Father loves her. She had tears in her eyes. We left with a plan to come back and help them pack up to move. We walked away without the box, and Margarita picked it up and carried it inside.
There were lots more miracles. We stopped by a member, who not only was back home from a long trip in Mexico, but also gave us just about the most solid member referral we've ever received. We were spiritually led to 5 different people, 3 of whom we set a return appointment with, 1 of which became a new investigator. We were led by the Spirit to knock a specific house, and it ended up being someone my companion had met before, but never knew her name or address. She also let us set up a return appointment. We called a less-active sister at the exact moment Heavenly Father needed us to, right after they almost got in a car accident and were quite angry and frightened, and read a chapter in the Book of Mormon to them over the phone. We were finally able to take the Primary president to meet Angel, who just turned 8, and his less-active mom, Marisol. We went to a different less-active sister's house for dinner to find her dis-fellowshipped sister with her husband there. The message we shared was about 200% the Spirit, because it went down very well. (Also, it was a miracle, because there's an ensign talk called 'Regaining My Covenants' that was perfect for her situation.)
Miracles never CEASE! If I tried to sit here and type out all the miracles we see happen every week, I think the keyboard might rot before I got done! :)
Love you all mucho! Tune in next week for more miracles!
Love, Love, Love,
Hermana Smurthwaite
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