Dear Family,
I totally forgot to tell you the rest of our Friday after we gave the training on ministering! So during lunch I decided to call an Hermana because we were looking for a member to go to a lesson with us, and with in a few seconds I realized she wasn't doing very good. Apparently she was going through some legal things with her neighbor and they were going to court that monday. I talked to her for a while and she just cried, and then we offered to go and talk to her some more later that night. I have no doubt that we were suppose to call her and be able to give her some comfort and just listen which is slightly cool because we trained more specifically on listening, so it was cool to put that to work and feel good about the time we spent because I knew we were ministering!:)
This week has been good...well a hard one for Sister Shepherd, but she is doing so much better now! I guess she has been frustrated that she feels like she has tried so many different things, and everything isn't fixed. We happened to go on exchanges this week, and the sister training asked if she had prayed about if she needed to go home, so that pretty much put a pit in my stomach because I feel like she has been making so much progress, but that's just me, and I would be lying if I said I would feel like I hadn't done enough and I could have done more if she decided to go home, but just having that pit in her stomach freaked her out enough, so after L.A. English she got a blessing. She still was a little sick to her stomach, but felt more peace. I gave her the talk "The miracle of a mission" to read but after she had prayed, but after she got her blessing and was in a better position to read the talk, I told her she should read it. As she read the talk she just started to cry, and she told me that she felt the biggest burden was gone and she said she wanted to be here! I had her write a list of why she wanted to be here and why she knew she could do this, then I had her read them allowed to me. Needless to say we were crying:) I don't know if the order of that makes any sense, but I hope it does! I don't know how, but I am so grateful for the things I have shared with Sister Shepherd at the exact time she needs them. It's not like I pull out a talk and know that it will just be perfect and fix her problems, but I just pray so hard that it will be what she needs to hear, and it is such a testimony builder to me that the Lord puts thoughts into our minds to bless others, and if we have the faith to follow those thoughts we will see miracles! At least for me they are always so subtle and usually just seem like my thoughts, but I have come to realize that I just can't doubt and act on them! The spirit talks to me in an extremely quiet, subtle manner. I don't know why God has trusted me with being Sister Shepherd's companion at this time in her mission because it is such a big responsibility, but I have so grateful for the feelings of love and energy succor her in the way that is most going to benefit her. Also, mom that massage thing that you gave me for Christmas was pure inspiration because I didn't even use it till Sister Shepherd became my companion!
This week we have seen a lot of little blessing/miracles this week! We received I think like 3 referrals last week and 2 have them have turned into 4 new investigators! One was for a 17 year boy that had met the missionaries on the bus, and is involved in the catholic church but not super satisfied with it and is looking for a lot of direction in his life. Right off the bat he was open with us and what he was looking for in life. It was so cool to talk to someone who was so open and to top it all off it was a 17 year old boy! The other one was kind of a funny story. We knocked on the door and the daughter of the referral let us in to wait for her mom to return from the market, and so we sat in the living room, and her little boy woke up and started crying, so she left us in the living room with a ridiculous novela on! After 5 minutes of trying not to watch it and wondering if the daughter would come back in we decided it might be more effective to just leave and come back since it appeared that we weren't going to get the opportunity to talk to the daughter and we felt super uncomfortable with the novela playing(they get a little risky sometimes...ok about every 5 minutes:)) So we told her we would just come back in a little bit, but as she walked us out to the door she asked us a question and we talked for about 10 minutes at the doorway and then she invited us back in! hahaha We were definitely suppose to talk to her. She told us how she felt so guilty about some things she had done in the past and even though she had stopped doing them she still felt like God hadn't forgiven her. It was really cool to be able to testify to her of the power of the atonement, and the purpose of establishing a relationship with God and how she can feel free from those feelings of guilt! Hopefully we can she a lot of progress with her this week and her family!
Fernando has FINALLY officially been transferred to the YSA ward which is such a relief to me because he was much to flirtatious for my level of comfort.
Did I tell you that Hermana Flores from 4th ward was able to go through the temple!? I'm so happy for her!
Julia and Natalie I can't believe how old you are!!!!!!! I hope you have a great birthday and you think of me hahah jk:) Birthday cards will be in the mail soon!
I hope everyone is doing well and I pray for you often!
Love,
Hermana Ford
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