Elder Moss and I have had some really cool/super weird miracles happen to us this week. First the power steering went out on our car and so we have been on bikes for about a week now. Turns out God has a great sense of humor and decided to let it pour raindrops the size of baseballs for three days strait. It turned out to be a pretty sweet blessing though because God led us to some amazing people.
During our nightly planning on Thursday we had this feeling that we needed to bike like five miles north and see this one random lady named V who a member had given us and address and number too but we had never been able to contact her. Both of us just looked at each other and started laughing because we knew it was going to pour the whole way there. As we get to the house their are no cars there and when we knock on the door nobody answered. As we are walking back to our bikes we see a van pull up and a woman of around 40 gets out with the biggest smile on her face. We help carry the groceries in and than sat down outside under some trees to get to know her more (didn't have the rule of 3). The first question that we asked was, "What is the most difficult part of being a single mother of 6 kids?" The tears began to flow. She opened up her story to us and we could both feel her pain. Without teaching any part of the Restoration we then told her ,"V the way to be healed of the pains that you are feeling and the stress that comes from being a single mother is through baptism." The Spirit filled us all and you could see in her face. We then asked her if she would be baptized and she responded without hesitation. We then went on to teach one of the most Spirit filled Restoration lessons I have had on my mission. It truly was God's hand in each of the three of our lives that led us to that miracle. We can't wait to continue working with this great family. Her kids are so cool and they are all so prepared.
The second miracle we had was with a young couple named T&J. T is a member and J is not. They were culturally married about a year ago and T just started coming back to church and brought J. Elder Moss and I had a lesson planned with them at 8 last night but at seven we felt that we needed to go stop by a set of Elders appartment (which is pretty weird because 6-9 is the best time to be out) but we went anyways. When we got there Elder J opened the door and he asked "What are you doing here?" We then answered, "Same question." They told us that they had both just had a really hard week and that they just didn't feel like they could go and and work so we decided to go on a one hour exchange and I took Elder J to teach T&J and Elder Moss took the other Elder to go tracting. Before the lesson I didn't tell Elder J anything about what we were going to teach or anything about our investigators. We get in there and to make a long story short they are both now planning to be married on the 26th of July and J will be baptized on August 2nd. It was so great to see the Elder's face when we walked out of that lesson. He had a smile from ear to ear. I truly felt like God had allowed Elder Moss and I to be instruments in His hands to help these two Elders out. The best feeling ever. Have a super good week. Bye.
-Elder Henrie
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