MURACLE!!!!
Oh my flip this week has been crazy!!!! We start out with the worst April Fool's joke of my life where one of the AP's called at like 9:58pm (no phone calls after 10:00pm) and tells us that there's a visa waiting sister who was coming to the mission early because of something and that she would be coming to College Hill (my area) WOOAH! Sister Gundy and I were so excited! Trio!!! But then Elder Page told us that they were having some problems out West so Sister Herrin you're going to Colorado, pack your bags. Sister Gunderson starts crying and my heart stopped for a good 30 seconds while my life flashed before me. Then it occurred to me and I said, "April Fools right?" AHHHHH!!!!! We were so ticked. hahaha! He's the worst we love him.
Ok then listen to this!! We saw Steffanie and Hannah at the beginning of the week and last week we had invited them to sincerely pray about baptism and the Book of Mormon with the real intent of joining if it is true. Well. Little 11 year-old Hannah comes over to us and tells us, I want to be baptized. We were like, OK!!! That's awesome! And then she told us that God had answered her prayer and she wants to be baptized. OK!!!!! :) So she tells us this awesome story of how she was praying one night and asked God if the Mormons were real and told him that she wanted to get baptized but she needed to know what church to do it with. So then she goes to sleep and has this dream about a bird in a tree chirping away, and as she gets closer to the bird the chirps turn into YES YES YES YES YES. :) So that was her answer! Which goes to show that if you have real intent and are willing to act once you get your answer, the Lord will give it to you!!! Isn't that the best? We talked about how God answers us in different ways and how it's so that we can recognize it. She is so excited to be baptized!!! We played volley ball with her and Steff and Sister Gunderson was wearing her, I"M A MORMON I KNOW IT I LIVE IT I LOVE IT shirt and Hannah really wanted one :) Steffanie is not getting baptized on the same day as Hannah. She wants to wait and just keeps putting it off. So we hope that with Hannah's great example she'll change her mind.
Ok, next fam. So we went over to Shonika's Wednesday and found out that Shonika doesn't want the kids to get baptized :( MY HEART!!! But she's still letting them go to activities and such. So Jasmariah went to activity days and loved it, Jaylin went to scouts and had fun, and Lashawnta went to mutual. With the help of members of course. Then we ask Shonika if they can watch general conference at a member's house and she said yes. So we were just expecting Jas and Jaylin but Lashawnta came and so did a neighbor boy named bubba. awesome! They played conference squares and drew pictures of the Apostles. Lashawnta fell asleep :) it was great!!! So we have high hopes for them!
Ok Now comes the crazy Saturday and Sunday!!! So we come home Saturday night and Sister Daley (who we live with) randomly/ last minute invited one of her girl's friends, Natalia, to spend the night ( The girls were in Salt Lake with their dad at conference) Natalia is a foreign exchange student from Spain. She is so sweet! We went downstairs and talked to her and she was very open and receptive. I could just feel Heavenly Father's love for her and how he was mindful of her. We talked about being missionaries and she confessed to us that she really wanted a better relationship with God. So I pull out a Book of Mormon, testify of how it's been one of the biggest builders of my relationship with God. She was so interested and accepted it. We asked if we could continue to teach her about the gospel while she was here and she said yes!! She spent all of Sunday with Sister Daley and watched both sessions of conference!!! She loved it and said that she basically could feel the spirit :) YES!!!! And while this is all happening we go over to Steffanie's and tell her she NEEDS to come to conference with us! And after much persuasion she and Hannah came over to Sister Daley's and watched it with us and Natalia. But of course before afternoon session, Jaylin calls us and asks if he and his sister can get a ride to church! We tell him we still have conference and he says that's fine, so we call up our members that they were with last time to see if they could pick them up. Yes they can. They end up picking up Jaylin, Jasmariah, Lashawnta, Bubba, and neighbor Delany! WOAH!!! So yeah, it was a fanstically miracle filled conference.
Oh yeah! Conference was the best ever!!! It was so cool to watch it knowing my family and friends back home were gathered round to listen to the prophet as well :) I love this church!!! We watched the first session at the Green's with the kids, Second at the church. Sunday morning at the church and Afternoon at the Daley's with little Hannah Snuggled up next to me. To emphasize, most of our miracles this week could not have happened with out the help of our members. We as missionaries NEED you! The people that we are teaching depend on you! Everyone can be a missionary. No matter how old you are. Michael, Sister Daley's 8 year-old son was the one who suggested that Natalia stay for conference. All it takes is an invitation, and a follow up :) easy! Plus it show your gratitude for this wonderful gospel that blesses our lives everyday! President Monson said that Everyday of our lives we are given the opportunity to show love. Let's show it!!! :) Let's take what we've learned from this conference and apply it now! Natalia told us after words that she couldn't wait to go to school the next day and apply what she learned. I know that our Heavenly Father knows and loves us no matter who we are, no matter where we are. He is aware :) He will guide us to those who need us. We just have to have that real intent :)
Ok sorry that's a lot of email. But man it's great being a missionary! It's really hard most of the time but it's really worth it all of the time :) I love you all and hope your week was as great as mine!!! :)
Love
Sister Herrin
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