Muricul!

heeELLLOO!!!!! :)

OH WOW! Really folks, this week has been SO great! I tell ya.

Miracle number one:

Balinda and Mariah. I'm not sure If I've talked about these two ladies before, but they are GOLDEN! Mariah is 12 and Balinda is her Grandma. They are from Oklahoma and they want to be baptized on December 24th. So the very first time that I met Balinda, she was basically trying to drop us saying that she just didn't think she would ever be a Mormon and  Mariah wouldn't even come out to see us. Not so promising. BUT! about 2 weeks ago we FINALLY taught the plan of salvation. They both just soaked it in. Balinda has a bit of a learning disability and didn't quite understand everything but Mariah is really good at summarizing what we say for her grandma :) We came back a few days later and Balinda told us that she and Mariah read the Plan of Salvation pamphlet together and prayed to know if it was true. She told us that Mariah knew it was true and that "they had to do this together" SO GREAT! Their hearts just OPENED! Well last Saturday we helped them move to a new place just around the corner.

(Quick side story: Balinda and Mariah were found because they stopped Sister Forsgren and her last companion from knocking on this sex offender's house. Well the new place they were moving into was right behind said offender's house. We had been going around his place to walk stuff over when he came out to let us walk through his yard to save time. I noticed he was wearing a white tee shirt.. and it looked very familiar...... PLOT TWIST. It was a garment top..... excommunicated????)

ANYWAYS. After moving everything the elders gave Balinda a blessing to help her quit smoking and that's when Mariah told us that they wanted to get baptized on the 24th of December! It was so spiritually and we were all tearing up! PLUS! The 24th is conveniently Noche Blanca which we did last year where the mission invites everyone to be baptized on Christmas eve so we can have a white night in Kansas! So we're supper stoked!

Miracle number two:

Jennifer and her girls: Jennifer is the mom lady that we found last week by awkwardly helping her move. SHE IS ELECT. I'm telling you this girl is so in tune with the spirit. We had such a good lesson on Thursday. We talked about her life, her worries, problems, and other concerns and we connected so well. After we recited Joseph Smith's first vision she said that her swelled. Then she started to cry. The spirit just hit her so hard and she really needed it in her life. SO. we invited her to a church tour for Saturday night and we went on splits with some of the young women for a stake activity. I got stuck going to dinner, but got to talk to the wife's less active husband. I was just all over the place. The poor young women thought I was crazy. I hope she still wants to serve a real mission ;) BUT Sister Forsgren had the church tour with Jennifer and her two daughters (Katie 12 the Marissa 9) and pretty much it was amazing, there were tears, and now Jennifer and Marissa are going to get baptized on the 29th of November!!! WOO!!! SO INCREDIBLE. Katie is apprehensive but I'm confident that after going to mutual and making friends her heart will soften. But man the church is TRUE!!!!

Well basically that was the week. God is good. Life is good. The book is blue the gospel's true. 

OH! We had dinner with our neighbors Cj and Alex. More tears. and lots of beer. Cj likes beer a lot. They're really good people though and are going places :)

I lost my glasses :'( I CAN'T READ STREET SIGNS! :( I'm still praying and looking... sucks to suck. 

Alright friends I love you so much!!! have a great week!!! 

-Love Sister Herrin