yall, best week EVER!!!!!!!!
i was studying a lot on Trusting God and giving my heart to him and aligning my will with His etc this week. (it helps that i was ponderizing 2 nephi 4:34that talks all about trusting god and not the arm or flesh etc). The Lord gave me an amazing opportunity this week to apply what i have been studying in real life!!
so here's the story...
Johnathan and Aaron Watson were supposed to get baptized yesterday. we had made the trek out to their boondocky house mulitple times throughout the week, got them white shirts and pants (they were donated), and had the program all made and everything...when we get a call from their mother mary sunday morning that went something like this
"oh hey Mary! how are yall doing?"
"not good sisters. you know its been raining and we are flooded in. the sheriffs came and warned us and if we leave now we probably wont be able to get back to our house and one of the bridges leading to our house has already flooded....we are so sorry but we dont think we can risk it…"
noooooooooooooooo! it felt like a movie. i was standing in the rain. phone to my ear. and just got the worst news!!! but after saying a quick, but fervent prayer my mind automatically started thinking of every possible solution..we could drive out there but our little corolla would get stuck for sure...and we cant even drive them...no i do not have access to a boat...who lives out there??? so we proceeded to call everyone we know in needville and especially those that have trucks..no luck. one guy with a truck is on a cruise out of the country, the other one's truck is in the shop, etc more and more bad news.....after finding out our ward council meeting wasnt happening, we decided to pop into the spanish branch sacrament service....we just sat there praying and praying like crazy for something or someone to help or some sort of idea to come...really we were praying for a miracle!!! i realized in that moment that i was still trying to be in control. it was driving me crazy that i had done all i could do but nothing was working....i realized then that the lord was giving me an opportunity to trust him. so i kept praying and trying to have faith as the sacrament meeting went on.....just a few minutes after the service ended sister lenhart ran up to me with a HUGE smile on her face and said "you'll never believe what im about to tell you!!!!" she then informed me that a member in our ward--ben masters--came to church early that morning because he had a feeling that someone would need help getting to church that day. he owns a HUGE truck, and brought a wench and towing cables. GOD IS SOOOO GOOD!!! i literally bursted into tears when i heard of this amazing member following a prompting and my dear Father saving the day. HE had the solution. HE knew he could get the boys to church..HE was just giving me an opportunity to trust him. the boys and their parents made it safe and sound to church and were able to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized for a remission of their sins. it was truly an INCREDIBLE experience and i am sooooo thankful for my loving Heavenly Father. for his patience and love and mercy and MIRACLES!!!!!!!!!! the church is true yall. i promise!
love yall mucho
hna hull
also...the ward party was a BLAST!!!! for real. love this ward family of mine!!
ok also..crazy story again. so after the ward party was over we still had about an hour so we went to try some of our investigators but every single one of them flopped. they either werent home, sick, etc. so we just pulled over and prayed to ask who needed us to visit them.,....we were getting super frustrated because anyone that came to mind after praying fell through as well!! we were just sitting there on the side of the road in the rain super bugged that we couldnt get revelation...after a solid ten minutes of feeling pretty lame..we decide to try a referral a member had given us. so we find the house and park on the side of the road. they have a HUGE driveway and yes it was raining but i didnt want sister lenhart to have to back me out the whole way...so we parked on the street. but as we are getting out of the car a guy pops out of the garage and throws his hands up. our first response is shoot. he is made and wants us off his property..but then he waves at us again and motions/points for us to pull in the driveway and park....so very confused we do so..the whole way asking each other "does this guy know us? did the member tell him we were coming? how did they know? what the?"...we get out of the car and we look at him and he looks at us with (id imagine) the same shocked and confused "i have no idea who you are" look. i ask if he is the man we are looking for and he informs us that we have the wrong house and is not the guy....he and some buddies were having a little tailgate kind of a thing and when he sees our nametags and registers that we are "jesus people" he gets a little sheepish about the beer he is drinking and the mexican music in the background...but opens up a cooler to offer us some of the shrimp/sausage/corn gumbo type dish they have prepared...he goes "we may not be doing holy things--but we'll break bread with yall...have some food!" he offered us some beer too..what a gent. haha we declined the beer..took some corn..and accepted the water he offered us. we were able to say a prayer with them and they told us we were welcome anytime! he said "you know what..maybe Jesus wanted to remind me today that he loves me.." bless his heart. they let us keep the texan mug/cup things AND held open an umbrella for sister lenhart as she backed me out. it was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God has such a sense of humor...if nothing else we were sent to that house as a little pick-me-up! (for us and them!!) god it soooo good!
and last but not least THE BOYS!!! oh happy day!!
