Letter# 55 10/26/15

Cute companion and Sister Whitehead and also how do I look with four eye?

My sweet Hermana Iris from Woodbridge came to visit Thomas Jefferson
and I with her husband and sweet son Mattito.

I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED TO WRITE ABOUT MY WEEK IN MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE. I am just so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the beautiful things He does for me and mine each and every day. He has always been and continues to be a God of miracles. And He lets us struggle, shake in our boots a little, just so we can truly learn what it means to rely on Him and look to Him in all things. I'M GRATEFUL, okay? 

I learned so many things about Heavenly Father and His desire to help us in the work this week. And I don't know how I'm going to even type them all because it all weaves together in this tapestry of God's LOVE and I don't even know, guys. I'm just blown away! 

But we'll just start from- compiling our paper area book into digital format for the iPad. A little bit of a drag, maybe? A super daunting task? You bet! A beautiful way that Heavenly Father gives us foreshadows and little spurts of revelation to help us in the work- YES. So, this week, as I was putting former investigators in I came across this guy named C- and the spirit was like, Hi. You need to go find him. So we went. As we were driving to his house, we see these two Hispanics (one having a SUPER LONG SILKY PONYTAIL) walking into 7 eleven so naturally we follow them and.. get to talking and it's C and his friend J, haha. WHAT. It was just like Heavenly Father didn't want to wait any longer so He just placed them in our path. It was super super neat. 

THEN within the next few days, I was once again entering people in and find this lady named O. I was like, Okay, next time we're over at that apt. complex we'll have to go see her. Well, fast forward to last night and a couple appts had fallen through so we start talking to this english guy named M. He has tons of questions and has read lots of anti stuff and I just kept feeling like we shouldn't still be talking to him, but also that we needed to stay.. so we have this lengthy discussion with him until finally we send him on his way with a Book of Mormon. As we're leaving the apartment complex, we go out a super different way than usual past the laundromat and see this lady and her cute little hija walking that way with TONS of bags so we hurry and park and run out to help them and end up talking about our message and.. GUESS WHAT. I'm sure you've aleady guessed, but it was O. Of course. She is WAY solid and SO SWEET and I'm so excited to go back and teach her. 

.. BUT WAIT, there's more! As we're gearing up to pray together at the close of our lesson in the little noisy laundromat, who walks in but none other than J from 7-11. Miracle! Then O's sweet little daughter is like, "Hey, that's J! He LIVES WITH US." And we were like.. what?! Because we'd been searching for those two guys after taking down the wrong address and not finding them at home for our next appointment. 

Needless to say, Isn't that the craziest chain of events ever?! My mind was so blown until the spirit whispered to my heart that, of course that happened. He really does have the whole world in His hands. <3 

Autumn in Virginia is beautiful!

 

I promise I'm actually a missionary and that taking a few minutes to fulfill every dream of my whole life
led us to be in the right place at exactly the right time so Heavenly Father knows and loves us, isn't it neat?
(Fall leaves and Recycling are two of Becca's favorite things)

Now for round two of miracle central! 

We've been doing some finding in Ruckersville, the boonies of our zone, with little to no success. But HOLY COW I JUST WANTED TO FIND SOMEONE UP THERE WHO WANTED THE GOSPEL. So, we go to this trailer park that I'd visited once before on exchanges with the STL's and don't see very many hispanics. So we walk across this huge field to the next row of trailers.. straight into the front yard, where a little hispanic kid is playing with his cars. Okay, thank you Heavenly Father! So we go and talk to his dad.. who, meh, isn't super interested and was kind of fighting a little bit. But then, gradually, his countenance changed and he willingly set up a return appointment and it was really neat. We went back for our scheduled appointment with him, J.. and- nada. Nobody's home. But not two seconds later, a car pulls up and out steps this other guy. He tells us to have a seat on the porch and we start talking. Turns out his name is S and he is J's cousin. And.. He is the slightly older, Hispanic version of JOSE SMITH! It was incredible. He told us all about His journey of faith after "learning for himself" that Catholisism isn't true. It was the most incredible lesson and Sister Stice and I both just sat there with mouths agape.. HE IS SO PREPARED. 

Heavenly Father really does lead and guide us. He answers our prayers, and after 4 weeks of struggle, He is blessing us so much. I am grateful to know of His mercy and love. I KNOW that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that He knows it all! His love and watchful care is all we need. He is here. :)

Whew, I'm out of breath. I love y'all SO mucho! Que tengan una semana feliz!

Miracles happen!!!  After losing her drivers license months ago some Elders in
Burkeville found it and mailed it to the mission home.  Becca is driving again....watch out! ;)

Sometimes sweet Hermana Vilma and I are twins and it calls for a pre-relief society selfie!
Also I think she tried to set me up with her youngest son Darwin yesterday
during Relief Society so............#hispanicgrandmabesties

Halloween sister preparation day activities and San Pellegrino joyful!