Oct. 28, 2013

So this week has been a crazy week of miracles! First off, for the past month we have been praying to find a single mother and three children (random, I know, but that is what we felt like we should pray for). This past week we were able to go and have dinner at a members house and they had invited their step-grandchildren and their biological mother over for dinner as well, we really connected with the two younger daughters and the mom was asking lots of questions. We really didn't think much of it until this past Saturday when they came to the trunk or treat and were really excited to see us and tell us that they were going to come to church the next day. It was then we realized that this was the single mother and three children that we had been praying for! They came to church and the mom was really touched and she wanted us to come back and eat with them and teach them more this next week, and they plan on coming to church again! It has truly been a miracle!

We had some sad news this week, a less active sister that we had been working with passed away. She had been really sick and had kidney failure and cancer in her throat from her smoking habit. We were one of the first people to find out and so it really came as a shock to the rest of the ward. I am so glad that we spent the time with her and showed her that we cared.

So this week was also the trunk-or-treat! Me and Sister Davidson were a hoot! Everybody loved that we dressed up and decorated our car!  Anyway, we had a lot of miracles at the trunk-or-treat we honestly had more less active and nonmembers join us than active members! I hope that the pass along cards we passed out will be great and that we can get some good things from that!

So funny story for the week, we contacted a media referral and she introduced herself as a Pastor. She has just started her own church and has exactly 7 members, but not all of her children have joined yet. She basically wanted us to become missionaries for her church and she wants us to help recruit members for her. It got even better when we were saying the closing prayer and she stared talking and praising the Lord after every sentence I uttered. All of this happened on her doorstep and in the mean time Sister Davidson got two large fire ant bites on her arm, it was quite an entertaining night!

There are so many blessings that come from being here and the biggest is getting to see the light of Christ come to the eyes of those we teach!