When I have a week like this I often sing one of my favorite songs from one of the best greatest musicals 'A Fiddler on the Roof'. The song has the familiar tune of 'wonder of wonders miracles of miralces'! The Lord truly worked miracles in our section of the vineyard this week! I feel that it was not because of anything that we did either, we were just in the right place at the right time "being lead beforehand, not knowing what [we] should do".
Our major miracle day was on Saturday when in that day we got 3 new investigators but we really got 5 but we didn't set a return appointment with 2 of them. Of those 3, two are a part of a family. The story of how we found them goes like this. A month ago we got a referral from other missionaries in Finland and we followed up with it promptly. This referral which we will name 'E' lives next to a recent convert and our baptismal date investigator 'A'. We followed up with E but she told us that she would be out of town for a month so we thought ok we can wait until then to teach her. We just had her on the back of our minds as we went to teach A with our member who is from Italy. When our lesson with A fell through (which actually resulted in A and her less active roommate to come to church on Sunday) our member turned to us and said well now what are you going to do Elders? We shrugged our shoulders and said well we only have like 5 more minutes left of tracting time and he said "well get a move on it, you never know, a miracle could happen". So that's what we did. We turned back to the building where our recent convert and A lives and remembered that we had E living there as well. We decided to knock on E's door thinking that maybe her trip was cancelled or that we misunderstood. She opens that door to our surprise and even more to our surprise let's us in without really saying much other than our names. We came in where her husband and son were waiting on the couch. We sat down and got to know them , come to find out hat E's husband was baptized as a 10 year old and quickly became less active. We also realized that he was the nephew of a recently activated family in Espoo. We taught them all the restoration and now E with her 9 year old son are investigating and the father relearning the principles of the gospel. It was a miraculous event!
In addition to all of this we found more investigators and went to the zoo! It was a spiritual and crazy week! I love my mission!
Have a great week!
Love,
Vanhin Robison
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