Dear everyone,
So this week has been great. As I told you I got a new companion and she is the greatest. The three of us are having an absolute blast! The other day we made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, ravioli, and chocolate milk it was our "going back to elementary school days." On Saturday after zumba we had just mopped the church and were waiting for it to dry so we could put down the chairs and in our attempt to make it dry faster (and to have a little fun) we had a sliding war. We are working so hard and seeing more miracles than we can say but we are also having a blast. I've learned that if you aren't having fun as a missionary (obviously within the limits of obedience) you aren't serving to your greatest potential. I look back on this time (and forward to the time I still have, I'm not dead) and this really is the greatest year and a half. I've had the best companions and the streak continues with Hermana Masters.
A couple of miracles: This week an Elder called telling me that a woman had called them asking for me, he gave me her number but didn't know her name. When I called the number it was Yuli!!!! My recent convert/ MIRACLE baptism from december. She called saying that she was in Sabadell Nord and that she didn't know how to get to the church (I think she thinks I live at the church) luckily our visit had just fired so we went to pick her up. It was AMAZING to see her again. She said she thought I was ending in July so 20 days ago she came down from France and all she knew was that I was in Sabadell so she walked from the Sabadell South station to the Sabadell Center station asking everyone if they knew where the mormon chapel was. (we live in Sabadell Nord and the chapel is even further north). She walked around from 8 am to 2 pm and never found out anything so she headed back to France absolutely heartbroken she said. Then she somehow got the elders phone number and we found each other. She just bawled. It was a beautiful moment. I got to share a message with her and she said the prayer she cried and just thanked God that she finally found me before I left. She came all the way down from France to see me and wow was that a humbling experience. I'm so grateful I got to be a part of her life for that short time, an instrument in His hands.
Another miracle but I'm going to try to keep these last two short because I'm out of time
Harold and Jon Carlos: two investigators (14 and 17): we went over to visit them the other night and they had two friends over. Between the four of these teenagers there were 2 testigos, 1 atheist, and 1 muslim. In the back of my mind I thought, these teenagers are going to be so bugged we are here when they are obviously just counting down the minutes until we leave so they can watch the fútbol game so we said we would just share a quick message. We were wrapping it up but then I felt to ask if they had any questions they said no but then I felt to push it a little more and so I said that it could be about anything. They began to ask a bunch of questions about the Plan of Salvation so we taught it to them and they were so captivated. They had some questions about Joseph Smith so we told them we will come by another day and teach the Restoration to all 4 of them. Woot Woot!
Lastly: Saturday night we only had 7 member present lessons and 3 news. Our goals were 12 and 6 (respectively). All of our visits fired on us and all of the people who normally come with us were going to be busy Sunday but we knew we needed to splits if we wanted to get 5 lessons and 3 news in one day. Anyway, long story short we saw miracle after miracle. Joan Pau went with my companions and Karen came with me. Karen and I saw miracle after miracle as we talked with EVERYONE and passed by people. We had 5 lessons, found 3 news and found a member who was baptized in Chile about 20 years ago but left the church shortly after, we found another investigator who desperately needed our help and we sang Nearer My God to Thee to a blind woman and people all over the big park just stopped and looked at us. It was beautiful. The others had 3 lessons which means we not only met but exceeded our goals. It was beautiful.
I am happy, I'm finally getting over being sick, and the pinky toe I jammed in a door has finally stopped bleeding...soo....basically life rocks. I love you all!!!
Hermana Tuttle
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