We had such a great week full of so many miracles!
One
miracle this week was that we went with the YSA elders to introduce
them to another person we had met, and we forgot which door he lived in.
So we started knocking the ones we thought it was, and in one of the
apartments, a lady anwered that we had given a card to a couple days
before. She invited us right in and told us we could teach her! THEN as
soon as we left we saw Christina walking up the stairs with a bunch of
groceries. (She is our investigator who was the other family who had let
us right in when we knocked on the wrong door.) We asked how she was
doing and she told us she was going through a really hard time. So we
were able to help her take her groceries in and then help her make
dinner. At the end, we asked if we could just say a prayer with them,
and Hna Eames said it. After the prayer Christina said, "Ahh I just felt
the biggest feeling of peace come over me when you prayed!" It most
definitely was not a coincidence that the timing was so perfect for us
to run into her right as she was walking passed the house we were in.
God loves each of us!
Another miracle was
the next morning when we went to go see Christina again! The first was
small, but so amazing to me. So that morning, I was studying and
flipping through Preach My Gospel (The manual we use as missionaries)
and I saw a section I have always just kind of skipped over named,
"Teaching People without a Christian Background." At first I thought -
no. I am not reading that because everyone here is Catholic and so it
doesn't apply to spanish work! But I decided to read it anyways. Well, a
few hours later, one of our appointments fell through, so we were
walking on the street and passed this teenager that we started talking
to. His name was Albert and he is SO SMART. Loves science and math and
is interested in learning anything and everything. His grandparents were
from mexico, but he grew up here, and doesn't have a Christian
background! He doesn't know if there is a God, or the importance of
Jesus Christ. But he told us that he loves to learn and see what other
people think, and that he would let us come and teach him! How amazing
is that?! Unfortunately he doesn't speak spanish, so we have to let the
English elders teach him, but what a miracle. It taught me that Heavenly
Father really is in charge of this work! He places people in our path
every day that we need to meet.
Then we
went to go teach Christina, and we taught her and her kids about the
atonement. We had never been able to actually teach her kids before, but
this time they were all there. At the end, we all sang, "I Stand All
Amazed" together, and Hna Eames asked the 13 year old daughter how she
felt while we were singing. She started crying and said that she felt
like Christ was there with us. Then everyone started crying... And then
the 7 year old son said the cutest prayer in the world. "Heavenly
Father, thank you for always being with me and my friends and for
playing with us." SO CUTE.
As far as other events of the week... we taught every-Juan in Santa Maria on wednesday,
and each one went more and more down hill. There were three of them.
The final Juan was this man that thought Hna Eames was super cute. hahah
she always attracts the creepies. But don't worry, we got out of
there!
Well, I am about out of time, but I
love you all! I am so grateful to be a missionary and to be gaining the
perspective I am. I have so much faith in Heavenly Father's timing and
will. I know that he has a perfect plan for each of us, and that even
though sometimes it seems like nothing is working out - His plan is what
will always bring us the most happiness. It is just our job to be
patient and faithful in the little things, and everything will work out
for us!
Have a great week!
<3 Hermana Trystan Ricks
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