So this week was another great week full of incredible miracles.
We started off the week with a birthday party for a one year old boy... he
wont ever remember our names or the fact that we were over but it was nice to be
able to enjoy birthday cake and have fun with balloons. But this week was full
of fiestas... Everyone seemed to want to feed us tacos which was completely fine
with us because WE LOVE TACOS!!!!! But we really are blessed to have such great
members who take care of us and make sure we are well fed.
We taught the tree of life with one of our recent converts and somehow our
picture ended up totally inaccurate. The river and the iron rod both led to the
tree but in more of a T direction then in a "oh wait they are suppose to be right
next to each other" direction... ooops... its a good thing missionaries aren't
suppose to be perfect right. We also read alma 44 with another recent convert of
ours and she helped me gain some really good insight on the war chapters... I
usually hate the war chapters because everybody fights but if you get rid of all
the blood and gore you can see that we are in a war now... we are really in a
spiritual war and just like how the nephites have to prepare we have stuff we
need to do now to keep us away from evil. It was really fun to gain those
insights this week.
Ryan taught us about the priesthood this week which was incredible... we
asked him what he knew and the first thing he said was... well i know there are
two of them one is aaronic and the other i cant pronounce.... you are exactly
right ryan those are the two types of priesthood :) we are so excited for him
and the progress that family has made and the fact that he will get the
priesthood to bless both his and his familys life.
But i think the biggest miracle that has come from this week is with J and S and their family... here is a little background incase i havent given
it. J*** is the father of the family and he is probably in his thirties and is
first nation, and man has that guy been through a lot in his life. But my
favorite part is the fact that he has been taught by elders before and he just
made fun of them and wasted there time but he wont do that to us because he says
we are different and that he believes now. S*** is his wife (she is white)...
she was who was referred to us from a lady in red deer alberta and she has been
right by jays side as they have made changes. They have five beautiful children.
The oldest is t*** and she is 11. She is partial blind but i think the cutest
thing i have ever seen is when she asked her primary teacher to explain what was
on the board so she could understand better what the teacher was trying to
teach. ADORBS!!!! L*** is 8. She is cute and tells us she has read the whole
book of mormon.... we arent sure how much she has really read but we know she is
reading... its great! C*** is 6 and she is slightly crazy. But she wants to
impress us so she is starting to settle down. D*** is four and he has some
autism and so we have to be careful with him especially when he gets mad but he
is totally cute and loves showing off to us, and A*** is the baby... in fact they
usually just call her baby... but ya thats the family. They are probably
our number one focus right now due to the fact that the whole family has a
baptismal date for march 8 that they want to move up to as soon as possible....
they have really grabbed on and ran with what we have taught. They all came to
church this week and this ward is so good they have just engulfed them into
love. But the miracle came on tuesday.... we went over to teach and J*** had really hurt his back the night before and was struggling with sitting up
and walking and everything... :( it was sad to see. So it was offered to him
that he could have a priesthood blessing. We told him it worked according to his
faith and gods will and he said he would be willing to try anything (the doctors
were trying to decide if he was going to be in a wheelchair the rest of this
life or not) and so the elders came and gave him a blessing and then left... we
stayed and continued to talk to him and not even ten min later he was holding
his back with a shocked look on his face... when we asked him what was wrong he
looked at us and said my back doesnt hurt anymore... WHAT?!?!... ya my back
doesnt hurt anymore... okay... so he stood up and started walking, but it didnt
stop there... he picked up his baby girl (who had been a struggle to lift up to
his lap earlier that day) and started carrying her around..... He literally had
a take up thy bed and walk experience and now he is commited to everything he
says because he knows this church is true... we are so excited for this family
and their plans on baptism... they are truly going to be our miracle story for
the transfer.
Oh and now we have a third in our TRIPAN!!! her name is Sister Ashton-Corn and
i love her to death! She is going to be my little ginger friend and we are giong
to have so much fun!
Love you all... Pray for miracles, they are real!
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