I got to see Aunt Bets!! It was so awesome! I felt
giddy and happy the whole time! She looks just like you mom and you have
similar voices so I felt like I was really at lunch with my momma:) It
made me realize that missionaries can be far from home.... but that the Love
for family is immediate! I couldn't help but squeal when I saw her in the
parking lot! I love ya Aunt Bets! P.S. Don't forget to read
past that first page I wrote;)
So that was just the perfect start to my week! I felt so
energized and excited to work the rest of the week! We keep working
hard... and miracles keep happening... must be some kind of
coincidence...NOT! There are no coincidences with God! I set tons
of little goals just between me and God in prayer... and I kid you not I
received an answer to every single one!
For Example, I KNEW that if we worked hard for the
last 30 minutes before lunch one day that we could find a new investigator and
teach them a powerful lesson. Well we stopped at a potentials house.....
Nothing.... so we were walking back to the car and contacted 2 very Black
women.... Nothing that day, but one of those black ladies became a new
investigator the next day. But still I had felt that we could teach a powerful
lesson and get a new investigator THAT day.... so we turned to the house that
was behind us and figured.. let's go for it!! BOOM... just like that we found
and Awesome new investigator and taught a powerful Restoration lesson!
Pretty cool right! When God gives us a feeling... and we act on it then
only good things will come of it... if we don't... then we are the ones saying
no to the blessings he wants to give us!
This Sunday we had an investigator come for the first time
with her 3 kids. I was so excited but really stressed because her kids
are NUTZ! I can't even explain how wild her little one is. She also
suffers from high anxiety so I was just worried that she was miserable the
entire time. She had her hands full because 2 of her kids didn't want to
leave her side. I prayed that they would be reverent during the
sacrament... and they were great and didn't make any distraction!! however...
after that.... they made their fair share haha! I was so stressed because
I just really wanted her to feel the spirit and I was afraid she wasn't... I
had a laugh attack in the hall with my companion right after we showed them
where relief society was. It reminded me of all the times I have done
homework with Brandon Wild and we would just burst into laughter because we had
no clue how to do what we were doing! After church I just kept telling
myself she had a horrible time at church and that she probably wouldn't want to
put herself through that again... I even fasted specifically for her to just
feel the spirit once. I really didn't feel like that prayer was
answered... until... we went to her house that night to see what she thought of
church... and for some reason I do not know.... SHE LOVED IT.... blew my
mind... she definitely wasn't just saying that to make us feel happy either...
She kept talking about how beautiful it was and how friendly all these random
strangers were to both her and her kids. She said she can't wait for next
week... she is just gonna do things different... like not forget her diaper bag
so that when Her 2 year old does a blow out in sacrament she can change
him! haha She said that there were 2 testimonies given that she felt like
they were describing her life and as they talked she felt really good. BOOM!
answer to prayer! When I got home from talking to her I couldn't help but
say a prayer of relief and amazement at how even when I might think something
didn't go well... Heavenly Father will make it great in someone else's eyes.
We fed a Peacock today.
I think I found my missionary mom. She is a sheriff in
Palmdale with 3 little boys. We do laundry at her house and is just
awesome! We helped her sand her kitchen shelves while we just drilled her
with questions about her job and guns and all that jazz!
Went on exchanges this week and rode a bike for the first
time in a while. I am definitely out of shape and riding a bike that is
too small wasn't any help... I just wanted to fit in with all the gangsters
that ride their little bikes around town.
Can't wait for this next week and I can't believe I have
already been in this area for 3 weeks! Time flies!
Shout out to Matthew "Grinds" Coffey. I love
you. I can't imagine what you are going through... but the Savior
can. He can bring you the strength and peace you need. I will never
forget how great of a friend you have been to me and all the awesome adventures
we have been on. You'll see your dad again and how great that day will
be. My prayers are with you.
Love Elder Crandall the Vandal
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