February 6, 2018

Hey everyone!

I told you to expect to hear about some miracles and they definitely came!!

So the entire last transfer we didn't find anyone to teach and it was hard to not think that I was doing something wrong. So week 6 comes along and we were basically out of our area all week until Saturday. We did the usual morning routine and we had a few Potencials that we really felt good about and so we set a goal of picking up 4 new investigators. The morning started and we went to the first house that we had set up an appointment with and. .. it fell through haha and so we stayed in the area and stopped by this other Potencial that we had tried to contact a few times before bUT could never catch her at home bUT this time she was home. She told us sorry girls I looked at your website and I'm just not interested. Sister claus kept talking to her and started asking if there was anyone in the area that would be interested and in my head I was just thinking "no, she looked at the website, barely anyone actually looks at the website" and so I forget what I said or asked exactly but it lead to other questions and then pretty soon she was inviting us in. Her name is pam and she has a 1 year old son named malcom and he is so so cute. We taught her the plan of salvation and it was so cool to  see the spirit touch and soften her heart. She explained to us that she had just recently had a lot  of deaths in her family, her grandma being one of them and that was especially hard on her. One of my favourite scriptures right now is alma 40:11. We left her house with a return appointment and just like that, we picked up our first investigator of the transfer on the Saturday of week 6:) we reached our goal of 4 investigators that day. The contacts were all a lot like pam's. We would go to an area with a person in mind that we would pick up and then they wouldn't be home and we would end up finding someone else. The other investigators are sadaf and rizwan they are a Muslim couple with two kids and the last on is Lisa who we taught at 7:30. It was so cool to reach our goal. This experience has taught me so much and I am just so grateful to me heavenly Father for it. I learned that I want to give everyone even possible chance of accepting the gospel. With pam it wouldn've been so easy to just say ok and move on, but I am so grateful for the spirit encouragement to be a little more persistent then what I'm usually comfortable with, it really just set the tone for the day, we were out knocking on doors to teach!:)

Listen to the spirit, he invites us to do good. 

Love sister wood

...I didn't mean for that to rhyme haha