well I will tell you this, I really don’t like the new thing that gmail is doing with the format. It’s bugging me. 🙂
Well, yesterday was the best Sunday I have ever had thus far on the mission. We did some super awesome things. I gotta tell ya, We were going door to door working our way up to this investigators house and we stopped at this one hidden house. A man and his son came to the door, and he told us that he “may have been baptized.” basically his mom’s side are all members but he doesn’t know anything really, and non of his kids are members or his wife. I have to say it was the best OYM ever. I’m serious there were things coming out of my mouth that I was kinda like “woah there betsy.” but it was so cool! He said he is going to talk to his wife and think about listening to us.I know maybe that doesn’t sound that cool, but it was that cool .
Also we had our investigator Vince, come to church. He is in the English speaking ward, so that would be a first! We are pretty stoked. He is awesome, the only thing is he thinks he can’t be forgiven of his sins. Man, that’s known as Satan. I actually had a way cool quote about it, also pretty miraculous that I knew I had a cool quote about that. So this week we were pretty much running on 30 miles a day. which out here doesn’t get you anywhere. So, we walked. (I know real mission experience right there.) I was re-situating my bag because my eighty pounds of scriptures were jabbing me in the leg, and the quote fell out, I told my comp to just let it blow away and maybe it would change somebody’s life, but she picked it up and handed it to me. So I saw what it was about, and then badabing bada boom, just what I needed for Vince. I’d say pretty miraculous.
Yesterday, I just felt so happy to be alive, and to be a missionary right now. Sometimes it just really stinks and things don’t go right, but then the windows of heaven open up and pour bounteous blessings down. I think we focus a lot on how the lord is preparing our investigators for us, but we sometimes forget that maybe the lord is preparing us for our investigators. I’ll tell you this, we haven’t been having super successful weeks, but because of that we were at that mans house and I feel like I was much more prepared for him. Sometimes Heavenly Father keeps us in the refiners fire, and we scream and pray to get out, then we decide we will start roasting marshmallows in there and get used to it and enjoy it, and then he knows we are ready.
The trick is remembering that it’s his timing, his work, and his souls. I am happy to be a missionary. I know this is where I need to be right now. That’s what we always need to remember, be where the Lord would have us, and do what he would have us do. That’s where real courage is.
OH another thing, yesterday was the first eating multiple huge meals right in a row I’ve had. Yep I ate two ginormous meals right in a row, and then the best part is they pulled out cake. I felt like I was going to explode and burst and die. WOO I can seriously pack some food down when I put my mind to it.
Now, has anyone heard about that friend of mine? I’m kinda ticked that all I got was a short email saying I’m engaged and nothing else. Not cool.
LOVE YOU,
Sista Hannah Holladay