WHAT THE 6 MONTHS THIS WEEK?!?!
HELLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
so im pretty sure Heavenly Father has quite the sense of humor because He pulled a good one on us this week....
so we really felt like Carmen and Antonio were ready for baptism this week so we decided to do whatever it took to get them in the water haha we took over members, visited them almost everyday, on days when we couldnt visit them we read over the phone with them, watched the joseph smith video with them, said countless prayers with and with out them, fasted for them, etc....but they still wouldnt accept the date! they told us they knew they needed to be baptized and wanted to be...just needed to get an answer from God to know when..they wanted a sign...so we were praying like crazy for them saturday night to know what we should do...and we decided to go over early in the morning on sunday before church and let them know that as messengers of God..WE were their answer! when we walked in their apartment early sunday morning, antonio had been up for a half hour already watching the Joseph Smith video.. WHAT..and we told them that we were their answer, read a couple scriptures about acting in faith etc......kneeled down and said a prayer with them, both of them felt the spirit so much they started crying!!! but then they go..."we will be baptized, we know we should be...we just need an answer from God" what?! you just got it! but they promised to come to church...
funny thing about church this week is it was a big regional conference and the stakes and ward boundaries got changed......aka CARMEN AND ANTONIO ARE NO LONGER IN OUR AREA :( pretty stinkin sad about it....we lost a chunk of our area due to the boundary changes and it just so happens that the chunk they took is where all of our investigators lined up to have baptisms this month live (including Flor, the avalos, the cabezas...investigators/member families we love)......hahah good one...im finding Heavenly Father LOVES humbling me ;)
but its fine! im so excited to explore more of the untouched parts of my area! i know the Lord is preparing hearts to receive us :) you best believe we are gonna be handing out baptismal dates like candy on halloween! im excited to work my tail off to find more of my hermanos(as)!!!
oh! cool story real quick though...
we went to go teach an investigator with some members..but he wasnt home..so as we were walking through the complex back to the car i remembered something president challenged us to do and so i stopped everyone and had us each walk with a Book of Mormon in our hands haha it was a freezing cold night so there wasnt anyone outside that we could see, but i was confident we would be blessed for making the little extra effort.. as we passed the laundry room, i saw a guy with his back faced to me and its funny how the spirit works these days because it was literally a "GO TALK TO HIM" in my head...so the second he turned around i waved and smiled at the window! he came right outside :) so i started asking him the typical questions..where are you from, how long have you been here etc...he is from Africa and his first language is actually french! (you best believe i whipped out every french word i know.. "par le vous frace?"
and then he goes (looking at all the books in our hands) "so uh..whats going on?? whats that? NICE! we jumped right in to bear testimony of the Book of Mormon and how it is another testament of Jesus Christ and that if he reads it he will find answers to any question he has ever had and it will strengthen his relationship with jesus christ, etc etc etc...and he LOVED IT!!! he goes "no way! i have actually been praying to find a way to grow closer to jesus christ..i just want to know him! can yall come back and teach me more? i live right here and am very interested!" and then he offered to say the prayer and talked about how he knew it was no coincidence we all ran into each other etc etc etc...he may only know like four words in spanish but still...MIRACLE!!!
anyway, yall have a great week!! love you so much! thanks for the prayers!!
hermana hull
so im pretty sure Heavenly Father has quite the sense of humor because He pulled a good one on us this week....
so we really felt like Carmen and Antonio were ready for baptism this week so we decided to do whatever it took to get them in the water haha we took over members, visited them almost everyday, on days when we couldnt visit them we read over the phone with them, watched the joseph smith video with them, said countless prayers with and with out them, fasted for them, etc....but they still wouldnt accept the date! they told us they knew they needed to be baptized and wanted to be...just needed to get an answer from God to know when..they wanted a sign...so we were praying like crazy for them saturday night to know what we should do...and we decided to go over early in the morning on sunday before church and let them know that as messengers of God..WE were their answer! when we walked in their apartment early sunday morning, antonio had been up for a half hour already watching the Joseph Smith video.. WHAT..and we told them that we were their answer, read a couple scriptures about acting in faith etc......kneeled down and said a prayer with them, both of them felt the spirit so much they started crying!!! but then they go..."we will be baptized, we know we should be...we just need an answer from God" what?! you just got it! but they promised to come to church...
funny thing about church this week is it was a big regional conference and the stakes and ward boundaries got changed......aka CARMEN AND ANTONIO ARE NO LONGER IN OUR AREA :( pretty stinkin sad about it....we lost a chunk of our area due to the boundary changes and it just so happens that the chunk they took is where all of our investigators lined up to have baptisms this month live (including Flor, the avalos, the cabezas...investigators/member families we love)......hahah good one...im finding Heavenly Father LOVES humbling me ;)
but its fine! im so excited to explore more of the untouched parts of my area! i know the Lord is preparing hearts to receive us :) you best believe we are gonna be handing out baptismal dates like candy on halloween! im excited to work my tail off to find more of my hermanos(as)!!!
oh! cool story real quick though...
we went to go teach an investigator with some members..but he wasnt home..so as we were walking through the complex back to the car i remembered something president challenged us to do and so i stopped everyone and had us each walk with a Book of Mormon in our hands haha it was a freezing cold night so there wasnt anyone outside that we could see, but i was confident we would be blessed for making the little extra effort.. as we passed the laundry room, i saw a guy with his back faced to me and its funny how the spirit works these days because it was literally a "GO TALK TO HIM" in my head...so the second he turned around i waved and smiled at the window! he came right outside :) so i started asking him the typical questions..where are you from, how long have you been here etc...he is from Africa and his first language is actually french! (you best believe i whipped out every french word i know.. "par le vous frace?"
and then he goes (looking at all the books in our hands) "so uh..whats going on?? whats that? NICE! we jumped right in to bear testimony of the Book of Mormon and how it is another testament of Jesus Christ and that if he reads it he will find answers to any question he has ever had and it will strengthen his relationship with jesus christ, etc etc etc...and he LOVED IT!!! he goes "no way! i have actually been praying to find a way to grow closer to jesus christ..i just want to know him! can yall come back and teach me more? i live right here and am very interested!" and then he offered to say the prayer and talked about how he knew it was no coincidence we all ran into each other etc etc etc...he may only know like four words in spanish but still...MIRACLE!!!
anyway, yall have a great week!! love you so much! thanks for the prayers!!
hermana hull
saying bye to the avalos...little jashly kept going "im gonna miss yall" and started BAWLING as we left...SOOO ROUGH
SAYING BYE TO FLOR AND FAMILY.....
BYE BYE ABUELA FLOR :*(
AND CARMEN AND ANTONIO AND BABY MOISES
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