Aloha my people!
How is everyone doing?! I hope everything is going well! Tell me about all your adventures!
This week has been awesome!! So. Many. Miracles. But for real, we have been so blessed!!!
-Remember how I told you about Brenson last week?? He is doing SO good! We were able to teach him again, and it was the best lesson I've had on my mission! Not because of our teaching or anything, it was because Brenson is SO ready for this gospel! We got another mini-missionary this weekend, and I was on splits with her when we visited him. We had given him a Book of Mormon, and even though his English isn't super great, he totally read! In our lesson we read some more together, and he just absorbed everything. Then at the end, we asked him to say the closing prayer. He was really hesitant... he said he really wanted to but he thought his English wasn't good enough to pray. So he had us write down what to say to begin and end a prayer. He was kind of nervous because I guess he thought he had to use sophisticated words or something. But finally when he was ready he decided to say it. And seriously it was the sweetest prayer I've ever heard. It was so sincere, and straight from his heart. He was truly talking with God. When he finished, the Spirit was just flooding the room. It was definitely something I will remember the rest of my life! Then he told us that his family (who is currently in the mainland visiting grandparents) would love to learn about the church too as soon as they get back! Woo!! I want to teach a whole familyyyyyy because that would be spectacular if they all got baptized and went to the temple in a year!
-So have I told you about Jonah yet? I can't remember. If so I'll tell you again. So one day when Sister Curtis was at Walmart before this transfer, a guy (Jonah) came up to them and was like, "hey, are you the mormons?" they said yes... and he asked if they could start teaching him! So that brings us to now, and we teach him every week! But the problem is that he never keeps his commitments, even though he always seems super interested. He has never really read on his own, and he has never come to church. For the past four weeks he's committed to coming to church, but hasn't. We call him every Sunday morning like 79 times, and one time we even went to his house to wake him up. (I feel like missionaries are allowed to be a little bit stalker-ish....it's all for a good cause right?) But this past week, we just decided that we can't force him to do anything, and if he doesn't keep his commitments we need to drop him. So we stopped trying to set up an appointment or getting him to come to church. Then Sunday comes around and he texted us like 30 minutes before church starts saying that he was coming! We were like... HA we've heard that one before. But 30 minutes later, we found him in the church parking lot waiting for us! It was a miracle! He stayed for sacrament meeting. He seemed a little bit nervous because he wasn't wearing church clothes or anything, but we were able to introduce him to tons of people who were super nice to him. Afterwards, we weren't really sure how he felt about it all.... then he texted us saying thank you so much, that was a very good and humbling experience, and I will definitely be coming back next week! We were so happy :) Heavenly Father is really softening his heart!
-Not a lot of other crazy things happened this week. My companions were both sick for a couple of days, so I kind of had to chill a lot. (By chill, I mean read everything I'm allowed to read- Book of Mormon, Ensign, talks, etc.) Speaking of my companions, they're both dying in 18 days...! It's super weird killing two people at once. They get to bond about the fact that they can listen to normal music and movies in 18 days and I just can't relate... but that's okay, I really don't want to go home that soon anyway (no offence family:) Anyway I LOVE them and I'm so grateful Heavenly Father put us three together!!! Them dying also makes me realize how short my mission is! 18 months is nothing. Gotta live it up! YOSO (you only serve once, obvi)
Anyway, I have to go but I hope you have a lovely week! Always remember that it's the little things you do that that matter. Keep on reading, praying, going to church serving, and all that jazz :)
Love you all so much!
<3, sister sabeybaby
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