Today is my 9 month mark but it I swear only feels like 3. I don't feel ready to be halfway done with my mission, but at least I still have a full 9 months ahead of me!
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| Found this while out tracting. |
This week was so great! Like always apparently now I really don't remember much of what happened but we saw some amazing miracles and Heavenly Father is working really hard with us here in Ascarate.
One of my favorite miracles is this couple we've been working with. She was a former investigator a few months ago and we found her record and Hermana Bosch has been trying go to back and find her like the whole time we've been companions. About a month ago we knocked on her door with no response, like usual, but I felt like leaving a card with our number and then we went on with our day. A few days later we went and knocked again and she answered! She told us that a few days before she had been praying for God to help her know what He wanted her to do and then she came home to find our card! Then that morning she had been praying again for direction and a few hours later we show up! We cleared up some of the confusion from the previous missionaries and she came to church two days later with her boyfriend and their 3 small kids!
Her boyfriend, had just barely come to the US the week before and so we were able to start teaching them as a family. They already know that the church is true and that this is the path they need to take, but they need to be married before they can be baptized. They've been working on getting that taken care of but he wants to get his citizenship first and so the soonest we could set their baptism for was next March, but we felt strongly that they were ready sooner and that God would provide a way.
We've been meeting with them for a few weeks now and they are so unbelievably prepared, but we couldn't see how to help them progress faster. So yesterday we get a call from her and she tells us that they just got into an accident and that they're all ok, there wasn't even any damage to their car, but they were pretty shaken up and wanted us to come over that night. We set up a quick family home evening with their family and we all went over. They told us about how they couldn't stop thinking how unpredictable life is and they want to get married and baptized as soon as they possibly can! We had a great lesson and the family was absolutely perfect! At the end she bore a powerful testimony at the end about how if they put God first and go ahead with their marriage and baptism, that He will help them in all other aspects of their life, including helping her boyfriend get his citizenship. It was such a powerful lesson and a day I'll never forget!
We're now working with them to plan for everything by the end of this month! I'll keep you all updated!
I can testify that God is a God of miracles, and that miracles still happen today, because I've seen them every single day.
2 Nephi 27:23 says
"For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith."
God loves us and He wants to help us. I'm sure everyone of us needs some sort of miracle in our lives and as we have the faith to ask and to be obedient to the commandments of God, those miracles always come. I've seen it day after day. God loves you so much and so do I!
Have a great week!
Hermana Martin
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| Lesson at the park with Kevin, our recent convert, and Joel, a super cool return missionary! |
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