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I feel like every great experience comes after hard times! and Isn't that just beautiful!! When ever you are going through a hard time just know that when you make it through, God is waiting to send you blessings!! Okay so after me and my companion got better we went crazy hard to work! our WML (Ward Mission Leader) had given us a new invitation to pray about 10 people that need a visit or need us for what ever reason! so we did we prayed so hard that night and we decided that the first person on our list was the one that didn't like us the most not even didn't like us just who we had a hard time understanding how to work with! So we got to their house and I offered a prayer and in it I asked that they WOULD be Home because my Mamma always taught me, if you ask god whether something "might" happen it will take longer to see results you need to have Faith That he WILL make something happen! and Guess what They were there we had an amazing visit and we had invited this person to share the truths that they knew and that immense joy would come from it! We saw them on Sunday and they thanked us for stopping by and that it meant a lot to them!!!
WHOOOOO Okay next Miracle We were walking in a neighbor hood about to go visit this Brother that was on our list and while we were my companion and a sister who was leaving the next day so she was with us were just talking to everyone and holy moly! the first gentle man who had bothered to talk to us was an elderly Hispanic man who was a member of another church up the road and my Comp started talking about how beautiful of a church it was and how much history was in it! and Victor just lit up and we got to talking he said "You know I just look up to you ladies so much! These young people need Jesus and God in their lives and they wont listen to an old feller like me you know. They will just say oh its cause he's old that he is talking like that he doesn't know anything about my life or what I'm going through but you guys do! who better to send to reach gods children then gods children!" so He didn't want a missionary lesson but he gave us a few people in the neighborhood he thought could use the best message and that is the words and teachings of Christ! ALL his words I promise I wouldn't lie I'm a missionary!!! AH next miracle So we continue to walk and its my turn to contact the next person YIKES FANTASTIC AHHHH was all going through my head and I was like its fine its fine I can totally NOT do this so I took a breath we turned the corner and we saw a guy working on someone's yard Perfect!!! So I thought to my self Oh no He is working and at this point I think God had had enough with me so he spoke to me very plainly and said "So are you, but your work, My work, is more important!!!" Well I couldn't argue with that one so I went up and we talked to him........He was so Amazing! He had talked to 3 other sets of missionaries at that same exact spot! and he had plenty of questions for us THAT I COULD ACTUALLY ANSWER!!!!! some I couldn't but that's why god blessed me with the worlds best companion he was asking about the restoration and why did it need to be brought back to the earth and we simply told him "When Christ was on the earth he formed his church in the perfect form with prophets apostles and the priesthood (the power of god to preform miracles) and when he was crucified along with his apostles that priesthood authority was removed and good honest people wanted to still have religion but they left out key parts that maybe they didn't agree with or know how to do" and He held onto that and he just looked at us and was like wow I can tell that you guys truly believe everything you guys are saying and I feel good he said I want to walk around with the name of Christ on my Chest professing of the truths that I know he had asked a few more questions that we clarified like, no we don't worship Joseph Smith he was a man just like Moses Called of God to bring his children out of darkness and he was good with that! So towards the end of our 45 minute conversation I felt very prompted to hand him this card that you could scan with your phone and it downloads the Book of Mormon and I mentioned that you can search key words (cause he wanted to see if the BoM mentioned certain things) and it was just fantastic he has Mormon friends and even though he didn't want to have us over for another lesson I feel like he is in a good place and who knows maybe he will look for missionaries one day again, but I was so uplifted from that experience! and there were a few other miracles that day! The next day I was brushing my teeth and saw the coconut oil in the pantry and it said great natural moisturizer and I put it all over!! what I failed to read above it also was, "Great for frying & has high heat index!" I decided to do this on one of the hottest days this month...... Brilliant!
