Hey Family and friends, I apologize that this will be a shorter email. My companion and I are trying to make it to the temple today so everything is cut a little short! It is hard to capture all that has happened this week i just a few paragraphs. Just know and take from this email that i know that God is our loving Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christ is our Savior and leads this church. We had a lot of mini miracles this week but I won't be able to elaborated on all of them.
We found 4 new investigators this week which is a miracle in and of itself! We taught that miracle contact that we had,the one who went to pray but then we knocked on her door as if it was an answer to an unspoken prayer. we had maybe on of the best first lessons that I have had on my mission and we left having a lot of hope for her. We had a return appointment for Friday at 10:30 but she texted us that morning at 7 cancelling our lesson and not wanting to meet again. She talked with her family about meeting with us and they, being strong members of another church, cause a lot of contention and conflict. Right now she is trying to decided to continue and act in faith and meet with us or to make peace and conform to her family. It was heartbreaking and really an unfair situation for her to be in. We were pretty deflated after that and all personal study we were just trying to find solace in Christ. After personal study ended and it was time to go outside, feeling pretty tired of feeling bad for myself and having self pity, I stood up and said the Elder Smith "today is going to be a great day because we choose it to be"! With that increased faith we stepped out the door, followed our inspired plans and Heavenly Father lead us to a young woman from the Philippines trying to find a certain address. We helped her get there and set up a lesson for the next day. The lesson went great and there with her was her sister who is now investigating. we called a few days ago to confirm a meeting for this week and she informed us that her husband and mother would now be there. Just like that Heavenly Father has already blessed us with 2 great investigators, who are really seeking for the truth and it appears will bless us with 2 more investigators!
We got a lot of help from Heavenly Father in a lot of unseen ways, whether it was that we were able to help navigate a member to our lesson over the phone only because we had been where he was the previous day due to getting off at the wrong train station or if it was that we could get a member or two to come to lessons hours before the lesson started, on a weekday morning. Heavenly Father really does watch over us and Jesus Christ leads us. Or how about our investigator asking us a question by quoting the Bible, a passage that seemed to be contradicting to our doctrine, and the spirit giving us the wisdom to resolve his concern in 6 words, much simpler than what I could have come up with myself. It was a great week!
I hope that you all have a great week!:)
Love,
Vanhin Robison
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