Tender Mercies!!

Awesome package from the Christensens!
KELSEY came and visited me! :) I LOVE HER:)


Dear Everyone!

So miracle of the day: normally, we email at the library and we only have a certain amount of time to use the computers before it shuts us out, which means we always end up going and asking for them to extend our time. Well, they told us they can only do that by 15 minutes, so I was thinking, man I guess I will just have to write a shorter letter today, since that's hardly enough time to write a letter about a whole week of amazingness!

So, we went and asked them to extend it, and I even said to Sister Theriault, "man, I wish they could give us more than fifteen minutes at a time!". So they extend our time, and what happens? They somehow gave us 35 minutes! It's just one of those tender mercies! :) So, now I will try not to give you a LONG email, since I know hardly any of you actually make it all the way through, haha!

We had an awesome Ward Family Night last Monday at the park. We had a few less active members come, and shared a good spiritual message all about how we are children of God! It was good to just be together, and to see so many happy families! It was pretty fun.

Funniest moment of the week: So there is this guy who is a cop, who happened to pull over some missionaries a few months ago, they were driving with a member, and they ended up teaching him the restoration lesson. So, we have been trying to get in contact with him for a while because he has just been really busy with things. So, we left him a voicemail, and when he called us back, we were able to set up a time to talk to him for a little longer! But then, an hour or two later, we get this voicemail from his wife, telling us that she heard our voicemail (the one he already responded to), and that she is DEFINITELY not interested in becoming a Jehovah's Witness, and would appreciate it if we could take their number off our list. Goodness, I am still busting up over it! People confuse us all the time, it's so funny! So, we are just gonna call him at the time we set up anyway, just to clarify with them all :)

We have been finding quite a few awesome people this week! 

Andrea is a mom with three kids, and she has been looking for the truth her whole life! We left her with a Family Proclamation pamphlet, and will follow up with her tonight :) We are really excited because she was telling us all about her faith and what she feels is right, and it's right in line with what we share with people!

There is a sweet older couple named the Bradley's who got off their mission a few weeks ago because Bro Bradley is sick. We went over to talk some about family history, and they ended up showing us their binder full of pictures from their mission! I'm talking a four or five inch binder :) It was hard for my companion to sit there, she is really anxious about time sometimes, but at the end, Sister Bradley said, "thank you for listening to us and going through this book, no one else has sat down and talked to us about it since we have been home!". That made it all worth it! It's always hard with time, because it's never enough for the people we see here, but if we aren't careful, than we don't use our time well. but i knew that's what we were supposed to do for them. :)

Virginia is doing well, sticking with no tea for now! She has seen a lot of blessings come her way as she is trying to keep the Word of Wisdom, so we are really excited for her to keep gaining a testimony!

We went on exchanges this week with the Hermanas, and I got to be with Hermana Dansie again! it was great, and she really helped us out with the Spanish people we have to work with here. It's really hard for us to meet new families because we never know who does or doesn't speak english, and I would feel so rude if we couldn't communicate with them! So we went to the Villanueva's home, and got to know them, and it turns out most of them speak pretty great English. I just love Hispanic culture, and how welcoming they are to everyone! Hermana Villanueva even sent us home with empanadas! It was a really spiritual lesson too, and God's hand was in the whole thing. We got lost getting there, and were late getting home, but it was the only time all week that their entire family had been home together at the same time. They decided on their own that they would start doing family home evening, and their son who doesn't attend church offered to say the prayer. Hermana Dansie said it best as we were driving home, 'There's just something special about the Spirit that comes when we are together as a family!' I completely agree.It always reminds me of God's plan for our families.

Ok, there's so many more people to write about, but I will stop myself. Thanks to everyone for all the prayers and the letters, and the support. I am always so so grateful for the friends God has blessed me with. 

I love you all!

Sister Penrod