1/13/14

Well this week has been another fantastic one! One thing that was cool that we did was my companion and I made it a goal to talk to every single person we see on the street. Well, that's pretty awkward sometimes to just walk up to someone and be like "Hey, we want to share a message about Jesus Christ!". The first day we put it into action, the very first person ended up being super interested and even turned out to be spanish speaking!! This confirmed for us that the Lord is preparing people to hear His Gospel and putting them in our path, and all we have to do is open our mouths! so we kept doing this throughout the week, and ended up finding a lot of people who told us they'd been praying for an answer or a sign. What a blessing it is to be an instrument in the Lord's hands to answer people's prayers! However, this didn't mean a ton of progress for our work because they were mostly white people, so we would give the names to the English speaking missionaries. However we had faith that the blessings would come through our efforts. 

Sunday morning we get a text from headquarters that had a name and an address and said the girl had read some of the Book of mormon! This seemed to us a direct result of our efforts to open our mouths this week. So we went to contact her! She was pretty weirded out that we knew her name and everything but we got over the awkward pretty fast and I just said "Well, would you be interested in meeting 20 min a week for 6 weeks?" and she said sure! Before we left my companion asked if we could leave her with a prayer and she was like "Yeah I guess" but after the prayer we opened our eyes and she was crying. She said thanks so much, I really needed that, I'm going through a lot right now. What a strength to my faith to know that the Lord sends us exactly in the moments people need us. 

Another cool thing about this week was that we had a huge conference where members of the whole area came and we had some great speakers. The whole theme of this Stake Conference was missionary work and how the duty of members is just to invite people. All you have to do is say to anyone that you know, well do you want to come to Church with me and see for yourself what it's like? So I'm going to ask you: Will you do that? I promise as you do the Lord will put people in your path that need nothing more than to hear this message of hope and peace and eternal families and revelation. 

That's all the time I have. I love you all so much, thanks for your emails and support!

Hermana Hurley