Rach by Day

August 12th 2013

Dear Family,

This week has been awesome!

So they changed mailing. Now I can open up my letters right when I get them on Friday. Not that much of a difference for all of you because I still get them on friday and read them all before I email you, but change nevertheless:)

Tuesday we had temple service. At first we were pulling weeds in front of the temple and then we all got moved to clearing out all the furniture of 28 apartments....so I guess I can never get away from moving:) I hope that the sisters are enjoying all the hard work!

For our zone goal this month(finding all the less actives in the Hollywood ward) we all have disney characters, and I'm Mulan, and whenever I think of the songs from the movie it just puts the biggest smile on my face. Mostly just because it reminds me of Dad.

I explained this story in the voice recording but I'll just write it out so other people can hear about it.

Earlier this week right before heading in for the night we decided to go check out one more Less active's apartment. We knocked on the door and they let us in right away!(never happens) Their whole family was home which also doesn't happen that often, and it turned out that they were spanish! We got to know them a little bit and then set up an appointment for later that week. So we went back and the dad, Oscar told us how he had been praying for a way to come back to church, but it was really hard because he was going to have to go without his wife, but when we knocked on the door he knew that it was an answer to his prayers. We taught the tree of life and the joy we recieve from the fruit. Both Oscar and his son Mosiah talked about how they knew they could feel a difference since they had been less active and knew all they had to do was reach out and partake of the fruit again. I feel like my explaination doesn't even do it justice! But, we gave Mosiah a book of mormon and they said they would come to church. The next day we were talking to a member(the guy who had baptized oscar 20 years ago) and he told us that the bishop and him had been praying to know someone who they could reactivate and this man had been praying to be able to find Oscar because he had lost all contact with him, knew he had moved, and didn't know where to look because his records weren't in the ward anymore! The member called his up after we gave him his number and offered to give oscar a ride to church....and he came! I wish you all could have seen him! All of the members were saying hi and he was going around talking to everyone and when he talked in class sister Howell and I were just dying inside of happiness! After church the member related back to us that Oscar had told him that he knew he needed to be back in church. Seriously, the odds of us finding him and just the way that everything worked out is a miracle, so we're going to start teaching them the basics over again. Oscar wants to be worthy again to have his temple reccomment(he use to be a temple worker) and both him and his wife want their son to go on a mission. Just finding this one family will make this project feel like a success if all 800 other less actives say they are not interested. Woah, that sounds bad because I want everyone to come back, but it has been such a blessing.

Transfers are next week so p-day will be on tuesday. Not really sure what's going to happen. Sister Howell and I would love to stay together, but knowing that that's what we want we will probably be separated.

We got training again on relationships with other missionaries.... sad that it's such a problem, but don't worry about me:)

I love you all so much!

Love,

Hermana Ford

Moving Yay!!:)