Brothers and Sisters, ALOOOOHA!
Well it's been another lovely week in Laie. :) There were lots of small and simple miracles, and I came to see once again how much Heavenly Father is really preparing something for those who are prepared!
So on Saturday, we had morning shift at the Visitors' Center. It was kind of slow, but there was a little trickle of people coming in. Among these people were some wonderful ladies from Delaware, Norma and Jone (those are some nice names yeah?) probably in their 60's. They had just stopped by because they got lost looking for the Polynesian Cultural Center (classic). But alas, they were happy to stop by and see the beautiful temple and Visitors Center! As we got talking with them, they mentioned that they wanted to find a church to go to on Sunday. That doesn't really happen very often because people are usually on "vacation mode" when they come and don't even really want to think about waking up for church. So we invited them to come with us! Thankfully our church is at 10am so they were pretty willing. They mentioned that they were pretty active in their own churches, but they still seemed really interested. Sunday morning 10am comes around, they're not there. We waited for a while and then went inside assuming they wouldn't come. But a couple of minutes later, a member came to us and said "Sisters! I think there's some investigators in the parking lot...??" (Haha the member was really surprised because it's a miracle if there's an investigator the whole ward doesn't already know about). So Norma and Jone came to Sacrament meeting, and they loved it! Our ward has a million little kids and I have never been more aware of how much noise they make until Sunday..let me just tell you it was crazy. Sister Penales and I were both praying so hard the whole time that they'd be more quite. Then at the end Norma was telling me how much she LOVED that there were so many children! She said that's one thing her church is missing, is families. Aparently at her church everyone is between 50 and 80 years old and not always in a family unit. So yeah, even though it wasn't perfect, Heavenly Father knew what they needed and what would help them be more open to this gospel. The seed has been planted!! (story of my mission/life!!!) We got their emails so hopefully we can continue to talk with them and invite them to meet with missionaries in the future. :)
On Thursday, were spending some time trying to contact our online investigators. I have had this investigator named Robert on my contact list for literally my whole mission, and I had never been able to contact him. He was transferred to me by another sister who went home my first transfer. Even though I never got a hold of him, for some reason I still never dropped him. I knew the missionaries in his local area had been in contact with him, but I didn't know if he was progressing. I decided to give one last call this Thursday, and after that I would drop him if I didn't hear anything. Amazingly he finally answered! When he heard we were the sisters, he said "It's so funny that you're calling right now... I've really been thinking about all this lately. I've been going to my old church, and I have felt that something is obviously missing. There's a difference in my life when I'm not going to the LDS church and reading the Book of Mormon." He started to cry as we testified that it's not too late for him to come back, and that God was aware of Him and prompted us to call him at that specific time. He committed to go again this Sunday, and to talk to the missionaries about having the lessons again. He asked if we could give him a specific chapter to read in the Book of Mormon and if we'd follow-up with him on Monday. Haha, he knows how missionaries do business :) So that was a sweet miracle.
The best feeling is knowing that we were the answer to someone else's prayer because we followed a prompting! I invite each of you to be the answer to someone else's prayer this week! There are so many people in need all around us, and if you pray to know what Heavenly Father would have you do, He will guide you. Ask for opportunities, look for them, and then ACT upon them. It's the best! This is really God's church and God's work! I love being a missionary, this is truly the most fulfilling work!
<3<3<3 Aloha Nui Loa!!!
<3, Sister Sabey
Pictures
1- Hike this morning! It got kind of intense... haha
2- Family Photo!!!! (Sister Castaneda came for her temple trip. I <3 them:)
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