Well, I never thought in a million years that I would ever type these words:
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Well, I never thought in a million years that I would ever type these words:
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This week was incredible. Three of our four new investigators we recieved this week were through member referrals! And all of them are solid!!! It’s the coolest thing I have ever seen!
Miracle story 1: We invited a member to come out with us to a lesson and he arrived a half an hour early. He noticed a lady at a nearby bus stop with a disabled child and he felt like he needed to pick her up and give her a ride to wherever she was going. So he did. He gave this lady a ride all the way back to a school just by his house, talked to her about the Gospel, asked if we could come over and got all her information! And she agreed!! Later that night, our 8 pm lesson fell through and we felt so prompted to go contact this lady. We did, and we were lucky enough to find her at home. At first, she was a little standoffish, but once we got talking to her about what we did and that as members of our church, we go out of our way to represent Jesus Christ, and that’s exactly what our member was doing. He helped her in the way Christ would have helped her! We taught her a little about our message and gave her a pamphlet to read and then said a prayer with her. At the end of the prayer, she asked us if she could introduce us to her disabled son that was with her. It was a really special moment and she allowed us to set a return appointment.
Miracle Story 2: We had started to teach one of our less actives all of the lessons again and went back this week for our second discussion. We had planned to teach more about the Book of Mormon this time, but a few minutes into the lesson, there was a really loud knock on the door, and the less active member excused herself, saying that SHE HAD INVITED A FRIEND OVER TO THE LESSON. We had never thought in a million years that this particular less active would invite someone to listen to us and she invited a friend over! His name is Sergio and he is living in a hotel because he is going through a divorce. He had a lot of good questions and we felt we needed to launch into Lesson 1. As we taught, the Spirit was so strong and his questions got fewer and fewer until at the end he told us that he felt the things we were teaching were true! He accepted the invitation to read the Book of Mormon and to pray. He also prayed at the end and poured his whole heart and soul out in the prayer. It was so incredible (that’s how we found out about the divorce). We set up another appointment for next week with him and our member and we are so excited to see how he progresses!!
Miracle Story 3: The Elders in our area gave us a call saying there was a member in another ward that had a referral for us. The Elders had already set up an appointment for us to meet this person and everything! So on Sunday night, we arrive at the address of the Bishop in the Redd ward. Come to find out, his son, Andrew, recently got home from a mission in Barcelona,
Spain, had seen a lady pulling weeds out front of a house and stopped to help her pull the weeds. He got talking to her about the Gospel and felt like he needed to invite her to meet the missionaries….so he did! He had picked her up and driven her to his house so that we could meet with her. Her name is Marta and she is from Juarez and she is trying to get residency here in the US so that she can work and bring her family over. The lesson we had with her and Andrew was incredible and the Spirit was so strong. Every time Andrew shared his testimony, she busted up into tears. We can tell she is so prepared. We are currently working with Andrew and his family to keep teaching her because she doesn’t have a place to meet us. He is going up to school this week and won’t be around to help with the teaching, but he is all for skyping or face timing in for lessons at his parent’s house. He is so excited, Marta said she is coming to church this Sunday, and we are so excited. She really is so prepared to hear this message.
I have really been blessed to see the effects of member missionary this week. The members really are so much better missionaries than we are and they have the ability to help us find people who are so ready and prepared to hear the message of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. They are able to touch the hearts of other people in ways we can’t.
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Hi everyone! We had a pretty good week this week! I don’t have a lot of time, but I’ll just give an overview of what happened this week!
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The best pizza offer I’ve ever seen.
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Here is a picture of me and me companion, Hermana Cifuentes, out prostelyting.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been so wet in my life.We are in rainy season in El Paso and as it turns out, the city floods a lot. I am convinced we need mission-assigned speed-boats for the summer’s here. All the main roads turn into drainage for the rain water and so we have done a lot of driving across rivers this week. What never ceases to amaze me is how fast it all dries up, though. The only evidence that there was a river there was the amount of debris left in the middle of the roads. Everyone here has rock lawns and in the rain it gets washed into the roads. It’s kinda cool. We’ve started keeping our coats and boots in the car because it just sets in unexpectedly. We got stuck in our car in front of a dinner appointment because the sky opened up and dumped like a waterfall for almost 30 minutes. We called our dinner to tell them we were there, and to ask if it was okay if we waited for the rain to abate, but it never did and so we ended up making a break for it. We were so sopping by the time we reached the apartment door. The person we were eating with had made soup, so that was a super pleasant surprise!!!A fun miracle from this week: Based on a race car in someone’s driveway, we got 2 news this week 😀 I was on exchanges in the Redd ward with Sister Kaufana (she’s from Tonga) and I noticed there was a pulled apart race car in someone’s driveway across the street from a less active’s house, so we decided to go ask about it. As it turns out, they build race car engines and race them in Chihuahua, Mexico! We managed to get the conversation steered toward the gospel and we ended up with two new investigators because of it!!! Yaaay! Thanks almost 2 years working at Larry Miller!And now, a funny story: Last week, we were on our way to an appointment, we rescued a kitten from a very dangerous decorative ledge on the side of an apartment complex.Imagine, if you will, a couple of Sister Missionaries and a gaggle of very concerned Hispanic kids trying to rescue a panicked kitten from a two story ledge. It involved the kids climbing on pipes trying to reach it. It involved Hna Cifuentes climbing into a window to try and reach it. It involved Hermana Oliphant getting on Hna Cifuente’s shoulders in a skirt trying to reach it. Ultimately, I ended up in the window, standing on my tip toes, holding my prostelyting bag above my head for the kitten to stand on and Hna Cifuentes holding me around the middle so that I didn’t fall into the bush behind us.We got him down, though.And I have claw marks on my arms.But it was worth it because we were heroes and the kids told literally all the kids who lived in that complex that we saved the cat.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt more like a Disney Princess in my life.
Hermana Oliphant
And so pass my first crazy two weeks as a Sister Training Leader in the Rio Grande Ward! Never have I ever been so tired and happy all at the same time.
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