I really love this time of the week when I get to sit
down and really think about all the miracles that have happened over this past
week. :) it is so much fun.
So first big news! Sister Hansen is
being transferred to Orland park. She is leaving! I have absolutely loved my
time that I have gotten to serve with her. She will add so much to her new
area. :) my new companion is Sister Raccuia. I haven't actually met her before,
but I am SOO excited to get to serve with her. I have only heard incredible
things from her and I am so stoked to get to be with her. :)
So we had a super
fun week and had some really incredible things happen. On Monday we had an
appointment that fell through so we were stopping by some less actives that we
wanted to visit. We tried a few places, but nothing was super solid, so we
called Brother Westergren and asked if we could come over, he told us that we couldn't come over because
he was home alone because his wife was in the hospital, but he told us that she
would absolutely love a visit from us. So we ran right over to the hospital. :)
We found her room and were able to go in and talk to her for a little bit. She
was really upset. She had gone to the emergency room because she had gotten so
worked up and so sick physically because of some really devastating things that
have happened in her family. We just listened as she talked with us about how
low and overwhelmed she was feeling. We offered to say a prayer with her. It
was one of the most special prayers I have ever heard. All of her worries, concerns, and stresses were dimmed
for a moment as the spirit flooded the room as we prayed. We were able to have
someone come and give her a priesthood blessing. Sister Westergren is now home
and is doing lots better. :) Every morning, every planning session, every time
we leave the apartment, and every time we just don't know what to do we pray
and ask Heavenly Father to guide us to where he wants us to be. It was amazing
to see the Lords hand in our lives as he directed us to Sister Westergren. No
one knew that she was in the hospital and that she was struggling, but Heavenly
Father did. He knew that she needed us in that very moment and we were able to
be instruments in Gods hands and to answer her prayers. It was amazing.
:)
So we got a Media Referal (That basically means they were
looking on LDS.org or MORMON.org and said that they would like the missionaries
to come over, so then we get a text with their information, and we go over.) a few weeks ago that we have been trying to get in
touch with, but we haven't been to successful. We have knocked on his door a
few times, left a note with our number on his door, called him, everything we
could think of. But no luck. So we decided to try one more time to go over and
see if we could meet him. :) we knocked on his door and he answered! We were so
surprised and excited to actually get to meet him, but before we could say
anything he said super excitedly "Oh! You're from the church, please come in."
We told him
that because of mission rules we weren't able to come inside without another
female there. So he literally grabbed his shoes and ran out the door so we
could talk to him outside. :) He was so excited to meet us it was awesome! He
told us how he just had this feeling that he needed to call off going to work
that day, and then that's right when we knocked on his door. He immediately
started asking us questions and we were able to teach him about the
restoration of the Gospel and we gave him a Book of Mormon and asked him if he
would read 3rd Nephi 17 as soon as we asked him to read it he opened it and
started reading it right there. :) he was so eager to learn and just couldn't
get enough about what we were saying. :) It was so cool. It was awesome because
we were about to give up, we had said we will go over "one more time"
and when we did miracles happened. :) He has since done some kind if weird
things so the Elders are teaching him, but that moment was so cool!
One of the highlights of the week was Saturday. We went
down to a farmers market in town near by with most of the missionaries in our
district. We set up a table on the corner that had lots of Books of Mormon,
DVDs, Magazines and pass along cards. We set up this plan where half of us
would stand behind the table and sing hymns and the other half of the
missionaries would go out and talk to people. It was a BLAST. :) It was amazing
that as soon as we started to sing, the spirit was so strong. People were way
interested in what we were doing and would come over to see what was going on,
we even had a lady come over and record us for a little bit. :) We found lots
of people who were interested in meeting with the missionaries and we gave out
a lot of Books of Mormon. It was so much fun. We met some really special people
that I just loved talking too. I noticed that there were a lot of people on the
other side of the street who would look over to see what was going on, but then
would keep walking. So I ran over there with a member who was with us and we
started talking to people across the street. We were talking to this lady who
wasn't super interested but super friendly. So after we stopped talking to her
the most darling girl who was about 15 years old came over to us and said
"I heard you talking to that lady, and I was wondering if you could tell
me a little bit more about that book you were talking to her about?" It was AWESOME. :) We were able to talk to her about the
Book of Mormon and about how much we loved it. She was so excited and happily
took a copy and told us that we could come over and talk to her. She was
adorable and just so hungry and anxious to learn. She doesn't live in our area,
so we will send other missionaries over there but she was just awesome and I so
hope things will go well. :)
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| The District before transfers |
Another miracle happened while we were out talking
to people Saturday morning. It was right at the end of us being out there and
we had only about 5 minutes left, so we gathered all the missionaries together
and we said a prayer and told Heavenly Father that we were going to go out and
talk to everyone we saw and try so hard to find one more person who was ready
and excited about hearing the gospel. After we prayed we split up and went and
just talked to everyone. :) after those 5 minutes were up we all came back, and
none of us had found anyone who was interested. So we packed up and left our
little corner. Us sisters were going to go to lunch together, so we walked into
TacoBell and we saw two ladies who we had talked to while we were at the
Farmers Market. They weren't super interested when they walked past us, but as
soon as we walked into the restaurant they were so excited to see us.:) They walked right over to us and started asking us all
these questions that they had. We were able to talk to them for quite awhile
and they took the Books of Mormons that we offered them and said that they
would love to have the missionaries come over. :) It was amazing, and was a
total answer to our prayer. Heavenly Father doesn't always answer our prayers
in the ways that we might think he will, but he DOES answer them. Because we
prayed and then did everything we could do he helped us find these two more
ladies who were curious and wanting to learn more.
Miracles happen every day. :)
Thanks for your prayers and
support because they are FELT. :) I LOVE YOU.
-Sister Watts
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| Random creepy hand |
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| Teaching 6 year old |
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