Dear Family,
Let's just start with the mission has changed so much in the past year! We have all grown such much in our faith and in our dedication as missionaries, and it has been so crazy to hear about all the miracles that have been going on in the mission. Every month there is a baptismal goal for the mission and at some point this year we started to pray for this goal in every single pray. This month we prayed for 60, and the Lord blessed the mission with 67! So cool right!
This week I was told my schedule for leaving, what day I would be going to the temple, my departing fireside and all that stuff. That was a little scary....
Then the thought of doubt of whether I did what I was suppose to do came in. Whether I have learned what I was suppose to learn and teach the people I was suppose to teach. A sister in the zone reminded me something so important. Our expectations cannot be higher than the Lord's. He knows our potential, but we can only reach it with him, and if we do our best and work hard. At the end of the night when I pray I can have the assurance that I am doing what I am suppose to be doing and becoming who I am suppose to be becoming...sometimes you just need a little reminder that you can't be someone else and I can't judge my success against another missionaries success. We are all striving to become instrument's in his hands, but all things are in his time and He uses us in different ways:)
Ready for an awesome miracles!
So there is a part member family that we are working with and they have been super tight on money and this week the dad was running around like crazy on the last day to pay rent. He went to the pay phone to check to see if his money had come in yet, and it did! Blessing#1: The amount was exactly 1 dollar more than what he owed for rent. Blessing#2: the amount he received was more than he usually receives. Blessings and happiness ONLY come from exact obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ and he blesses us as we strive to live worthily to strengthen our faith, especially after trying times of striving to keep strong!:)
It a lot of the wards here for 5th sunday the missionaries talk(does that happen everywhere else and I have just been oblivious!?) and after the meeting(Sister Weller and Sister Yanez spoke) we went up to a less active that comes off and on because of work told us she has 3 different families from work that said they would have an FHE with the missionaries so they could learn more about the church! Woohoo! Well, most of the them live outside of the ward so we won't teach them past the initial meeting, but it's still cool that she has been sharing the gospel and has been such a good example to the people at her work for the past year of working there! We went by later to learn more about her friends and this is what one of her friends story is. She's been having this dream for the past 5 years of a house(looks exactly like the LA's new house that they just moved into 3 months ago) and this beautiful building with a spiral staircase where there are lots of languages spoken, but she has no clue what any of it means. Ok, let me just tell you that in the LA temple there's a gorgeous spiral staircase that you walk up, so obviously she was dreaming about the temple! haha:) To us she sounds super prepared, so we are just praying that her spirit and heart will recognize the spirit and the church as an answer to her prayers!
We have been consistently been having 20 gospel conversations everyday and we have truly been seeing the miracles! Saturday night we stopped and talked to some people that were out on their lawn and they immediately invited us in and we spent the next hour teaching the restoration and answering any questions they had! Ok, this woman has 10 children! Crazy right!!!! Hopefully, our return appointment goes well!
hmmm what else? So at the beginning of the transfer I realized we were going to go WAY over our allotted miles, and I have never done that so normal reaction I started getting really worried and we began biking everywhere! By the end of today we will have used the exact amount of miles allotted which is such a huge miracle! I can go to sleep with peace in my heart haha:)
I'm doing well, and loving life like always!:)
I hope you are all doing well and I love you lots!
Love,
Hermana Ford
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