Hello everyone!!
This week was soooooo good! At first it was honestly pretty dang hard with my ankle and with all the rejection we were getting. We lost all our investigators. It was a rough time for me and my companion. There was a LOT of walking around with nothing this week. We both got sick and I ended up messing up both my ankles! I also had some weird allergic reaction on my leg haha. We kept praying and working hard but no one wanted to listen to us. But as the week went on we saw some real miracles!!
We were walking down the main street of our area on one of the days that we had been rejected a ton. We decided it was late and time to start walking back to our apartment. We were walking and I looked down a little dirt street where our old investigator Claudia lives. I turned and looked at her street 3 times. I did not know why. I felt like we should go see her, which was weird because she dropped us last time. We got to her house and she said the same öh come by a different day¨excuse. We walked away not knowing why we felt we needed to go there. As we were walking home, 2 guys on 4 wheelers rode really really fast past us. They were on the other side of the street where we had been previously before we went to Claudia´s. A few minutes later, we saw a huge gathering of people at the part of the street where we would have been if we didn´t go to Claudia´s. The body of one of the guys that had been riding the 4 wheeler was face down on the ground. The 4 wheeler was flipped. We know that if we had not received the impression to go to Claudia´s, we would have been hit. It is crazy to see how blessed we are as missionaries. We know we are protected as we are doing God´s work.
Another miracle is that we found a new investigator! Angelica! She is 10/10! She is the grandma of our convert Valentin and the mom of the family Raponi in our ward. Her daughter has been a member for many years now but she wasn´t interested before. Now, she truly wants a change for her life. She started coming to church after Valentin´s baptism. She loves it. She has smoked for 41 years. But as of today, she hasn´t smoked for a month!! We taught her the first lesson and when I asked her to be baptized, I said the first word to the question, her eyes lit up so big and she said YES!!!! She is so amazing and you can see the change she is making in her life every day. She says Hermana Degolyer and I are part of her family. She is literally the cutest!!
Something I have learned recently is the power of prayer. I have learned it is important to ask for things specifically in your prayers. God is our Heavenly Father and he loves us. Because of this, he wants to hear from us and help us in our lives. I have received a lot of answers to my prayers this past week and it has been a powerful experience for me. I know that if you guys will kneel down and have a sincere conversation with your Heavenly Father, he will help you.
Thank you all for all your support! I love and miss you tons! Also just to let you all know, my Spanish is getting better finally!! Woo!! Anyways see you all next week!!
Hermana Stewart
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