Hello friends and family!
This week was a great week full of all sorts of miracles alike! We have worked hard all week and done our very best and by the end of the week we had taught many lessons and were able to talk to 92! We almost made our leap to our goal of 100 people talked to but not yet! This week we will! So on Tuesday we made it a point to get down to the bottom of our area. We had a member drop us off and we started to walk. It was cold, but not too bad. We kept walking and saws huge dark cloud in the distance. I thought it was a rain cloud so I swiftly got my umbrella out and prepared to receive it. Just then huge gusts of wind came and even snow! That dark cloud was a blizzard and we were caught in it!! We were luckily walking because if we were on our bikes it would have not worked out so well. We literally had to jump in a hedge of bushes to avoid the blizzard! It was so bad that we couldn't walk forward without being blinded. We decided to call a member and she answered but she couldn't come get us because she couldn't leave her baby or even bring her baby (which had pneumonia) into the cold. We waited and oddly enough ten minutes later the blizzard passed on through and the sky cleared up once more and the sun shone, it was still windy but it was not NEARLY as bad as ten minutes earlier. Then we were able to walk to a less actives house and share a message and get warm! Wow God has many blessings, we were freaked out for sure!
Miracles!:
So a couple of weeks ago we talked to a boy named Payton and he liked our message and what we had to share and then gave him a Book of Mormon before his mom drove up and picked him up for school! We walked away from that worried that his mom would take away his book but felt peace a short time later. So come Wednesday night we checked up on Brother Coffin ( he is a return in member we have been helping) and he opened the door saying he was sick and then told us his friend Jackie was in the middle of the book of alma in the Book of Mormon and we flipped out but were really confused. So apparently this is his Trinidad friend Jackie and some two girls gave her son a Book of Mormon and she picked it up and started reading it. We stopped by Thursday and her son was Payton! What?!? Wow I can't believe that! We talked to Jackie and she is excited to have us come explain the Book of Mormon tomorrow! Yay! Brother Coffin said that they have been hopping around different churches for a while now, searching for the right church! :D we are so very much excited! :D
So on Friday we had district meeting! Yay! We learned about the importance of iPad safety and keeping the rules with them. It was a good reminder of what standards I have wanted to keep. I am so grateful for this training! Then we saw some fellow missionaries I came out with and they reminded me that I have now been 15 months out! Crazy! Well not too much longer at all but a TON of work to do around here! :)
Saturday was an interesting day, we almost had several appointments to go to but then they all fell through. We were heading over to an appointment at Sister Butler's house and we booked it last minute to catch the bus. We were waiting there for about ten minutes and nothing showed up. I was concerned but had the impression to pray. So we did and no sooner had I said ‘Amen’, I looked behind me and nothing then turned back around to put something in my bad and when I looked back again the bus was pulling up! It was a true miracle! I had never seen a prayer so miraculously answered! We saw Sister Butler shortly after that and then had dinner with the Ware family. So we proceeded to use our evening to the best of what we could do and we decided to go to the bottom of our area and work. When we started biking back home we had a thought to try our investigator Amos and see if he would come to church. So we biked through his neighborhood and two cop cars drove passed us... A thought came to me that they were at Amos' house but I didn't think much of it and hoped they wouldn't have been. So we biked up, no cop cars (GOOD SIGN!) and we knocked on the door. His wife answered and she said it wasn't a good night because Amos got arrested! What!! We asked why and oh boy she said "Amos stabbed his son!" WHAT?! Yup. It's true, he had been drinking all day and snapped at his son... We were so grateful we had had a lot of trouble trying to get in contact with him because it would have risked our safety. We came in and the house was a mess as they had turned everything over running through the house. Amos' poor wife was just devastated and we had come at the right time to help her clean up and comfort and console her. She was very much comforted as we shared a scripture and a prayer and made her laugh! It was the best ending to our night and also the worst but Amos is definitely not an investigator anymore.
Yesterday it was the multi stake conference broadcast by the First Presidency. President Rasband and also Linda S. Reeves and Elder Hales spoke to all of us about the importance of attending the temple, keeping the spirit in your life and home and also by having charity for those around you. It was a sure blessing. Then we got home, ate lunch and went back down to the middle of our area and we worked. As we biked we stopped to talk to a man changing the tire on his car. He said and no sooner had we asked a question he proceeded to bash us. He would ask a question, then not listen to an answer and then we bore testimony I read a scripture and walked away. This man was not humble or patient and so that was that! As we walked away we realized it started getting even colder. We walked around and then decided to head home. As we kept biking we thought someone should come and get us because the cold air was getting worse. We called and got a ride. As we waited Sister Ferrell was not looking good. She started walking funny. They picked us up and then we got inside and Sister Ferrell took off her socks and her feet were blue! Almost purple! What?!? So we proceeded to get cold water and warm her feet up and gradually get the water warmer! We called the nurse and she said to keep doing that and not go out the rest of the evening! Oh my goodness we were really concerned but today we were able to get her new decent boots and make sure her feet would stay warm. So we made cards for the members and those around us and called potentials and got return appointments! Yay!
Out of all the things that happened this week we saw the blessings that came from working hard and trusting in Heavenly Father! I know He will always bless us!
~ Sister Jones
On Wednesday most of our
appointments fell through and we were able to talk to a hug bunch of people! We
saw so many miracles and then we saw Sister Blackburn, she took us out for
dinner at a fancy Mexican restaurant! So cool! I love Sister Blackburn!
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