Hi Family and Friends!
So, since the library we e-mail at is now closed on Monday's we'll be e-mailing on Tuesdays after our district meetings we have in Artesia. (Sorry if anyone got worried!)
I'm kind of happy though, that we get to e-mail on Tuesdays, because it seems that there are always Monday-night miracles! ... well I mean there are miracles everyday, but especially on Monday nights! And last night was TOTALLY one of those nights! ... but I have to start with the week first, so you'll have to hang on for a second. :)
So in my last e-mail I talked a little bit about going on exchanges with the other sisters here in NM, and how it was awesome to see what it actually looked like to have investigators and people to teach! We were so excited to get it rolling in the Dexter area, and this past week we taught EVERY DAY! It was so amazing, because each night when we came home we were like "WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" but with a little less excitement, becasue we were always pretty tired from working hard lol. But we had a lot of success in finding interested people in the few streets of Dexter we hadn't knocked at before, and we were just as busy it seems as the sisters we were on exchanges with just the week before.
When we sat down to plan out Saturday on Friday night, it was really amazing because we already had almost every hour of the day filled with appointments (seriously, the first time EVER in the last 5 weeks we've had more than like one or two appointments set)!! But shoot, dang, we had 7 appoinments fall through... and a couple of their backups, so it was really, discouraging for a little, but, like Sister Johnson says, "Exact obedience brings miracles!" And we TOTALLY had miracles happen. More than just the 3 I'm about to talk about!
1) We met with Joe and he prayed with us! I think I told you about Joe last week, but he's so stinkin' awesome, and we've been able to meet with and talk to him quite a bit over the past couple of weeks. I think a problem that a lot of us struggle with is faith, and recognizing that we do have it. Especially with the amounts of rejection we've expereinced, or just time spent knocking on doors that people don't open, Joe has been SUCH a giant ray of sunshine in our lives, and he always has family over who listen in and chat with us when we are talking with him. He, like I said is amazing, and we've been trying to help him with prayer, and an awesome way we've discovered that we can pray with people (and not just for them while we're there) is to go around the group and say soemthing we are thankful for. There was a lot of family over at his place, and Sister Johnson opened the prayer, and everyone in the circle said something they were grateful for, and right after Joe spoke, he said "Aw man! Look at what you made me do!" with the biggest smile on his face. And when we closed with "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen" the Spirit felt even stronger than past times
2) Meeting the L. Family! We went knocking on Thursday and met an amazing family, single dad and three kids, and we just spoke for about 45 minutes about Jesus Christ and the role He has had in this family's life. The dad said to us "I may not look like it, but I'm a Christian man!" And we could totally tell that by how he spoke of some of the experiences he's had in his life with his kids the past little bit. On Saturday, we brought a member with us to a lesson we had planned, which fell through, and then the back-up fell through, and our 3rd backup also fell through. But we saw his truck in the driveway and taught the restoration to him and his family. They were pretty excited to come to church on Sunday, so the kids came, even though he had to work.
3) Miriam! We also found Miriam on Thursday night, we met her oustide while she was with her kids, and we went back to her house to teach her on Friday. Earlier on Saturday though, when we went by to see her, she wasn't home, but then she was and we had an amazing lesson with her on her front lawn. It was amazing because she doesn't read english very well (even thoug hshe speaks it PERFECTLY!), but we were able to get some Spanish materials and, while we talked to her in English she was able to understand it better in the Spanish. I think it is amazing that the Spirit though is a language that doesn't take spoken word to understand, and that Heavenly Father understands ALL of His children no matter what language they are speaking. She prayed for us in Spanish too, and it was just so beautiful! :D
So yes, even though life is hard, and dang just some DAYS seem harder than others, there truly are miracles that happen!
I can't believe it is already the last week of this first transfer! Sister Johnson names each transfer a chapter number, and I thought it was a neat idea to organize the chronicles of my mission, so I adopted it (hence the title :P) The days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days here!
I'm glad that we are (almost) gaurenteed to stay in our area for this upcoming chapter becasue we are in the 12-week training program, because the work is just starting to get going here! We are speaking in church on Sunday about Pioneers (which is funny because the mission office has been calling us the Dexter Pioneers lol) So I'm excited for that!
Anyway, that's all for this week!
Check the pics for our Monday Night Miracle!
Love always,
Sister Lagrosa
Sister Lagrosa
Pictures!
#1 --> We bought a huge white board last week to help organize our planning for investigators, and since we have a TINY car, Sister Hoover was a little jammed in the back seat lol.
#2 --> Monday Night miracle! We took our bikes out to visit a less-active member near lake Van, and we rode around it to talk with the people that were out because it was such a BEAUTIFUL evening!
#3 --> Since it's the last week of transfers we took some photos as a district! (just barely at district meeting!) So this is us, cute right?
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