Hey family!
The miracles continue...
Remember Josefina, the can-collecting lady that came to church? Yeah so I made her that promise and then on Tuesday we went to a panadaria that one of the members owns to set up some folletos (uhh...pamphlets I think the word is) and some other stuff. (I felt like I was doing marketing or something but we ended up contacting a really nice ladyi n the process). While we were there Luzmila gave us a bunch of free bread and we sat down to eat and I noticed a recycling bin full of cans. It caught my eye just because recycling doesn't exist in Panama, and I had this weird I'm-in-America-but-not trip for a second but THEN I remembered that Josefina collects cans.... So I asked if she could take them and they said yes and when we passed by her house that same day we told her and she got ready right away and left to pick them up. Wam bam, promise fulfilled. It's cool how God always keeps his end of the bargain huh?
ANYWAYS, miracle 2= the amazing change we've seen in Indira, one of the investigator's moms. She got baptized when she was younger but then went inactive and got baptized in the evangelical church and has always been a little cold and negative towards the church the whole time we've been teaching her daughter. She hasn't been supportive and the first baptismal date the hermanas had with her daughter fell because of it; but since then she's separated from her sort of crazy husband and we've seen a night and day change. I think it would take me forever to try to describe it to you and I don't know if I even really can but it's been soooo amazing to see how much happier and hopeful she seems, how supportive she is, how she has a thirst to read and to know more and how she wants to always come to church with her kids, do family home evening and have family prayers. She really is an amazing woman and someday I will be able to tell you all about her and how much I love her and her family :)
Miracle 3: Karen (the one who came to church with her husband last week by herself the first time we invited her) asked us as soon as we got started in our appointment on Wednesday "So if I want to get baptized, what do I need to do?" She has definitely been prepared. She understand everything so well and it's amazing to teach her because since she's so open, our lessons are just guided by her questions. We set a date for November 6 (we'd been planning on extending the commitment anyways but she jumped the gun) and she accepted all excitedly.
Miracle 4: Remember Dionisia? She just paid her tithing yesterday without us even saying anything about it. We taught her about it a week or two ago and gave her a tithing slip but after that we hadn't mentioned it again and she just paid it on her own yesterday. The branch presidency was really impressed with her and everyone keeps asking when she's getting baptized but she can't because she's not married. Story of everyone's life here... :(
We also just found an awesome guy (we're trying to focus more on families and fathers) who had talked with the missionaries around 5 years ago. We found him Saturday and talked about the Book of Mormon, keeping the sabbath day holy, faith and works and invited him to church. He came even though people came to offer him money for an odd job earlier that morning and has already started reading in the Book of Mormon. He's 48 and super ripped and spear fishes in the river next to his tin shack house. He's pretty much like the Crocodile Dundee of Panama. We've taught his wife once too so now we just need to be able to teach them both at the same time but he had a good experience at church. I love this work! :)
Hermana Graham and I have been discussing why we've been able to see so many miracles this last week/these last two weeks and we've decided that lots of factors play into it but a big one is that we get along so well and love working together :) Plus since we both feel like we want to be together this next transfer (they will let us know the transfers tonight) and that we feel we aren't going to be transfered; so we've been working straight on through the normal Week 6 drag. The whole running straight on through the finish theory. Hermana Graham listed the example of Christ and EVERYTHING He did in the last week of His life and that helps us keep a vision of how we need to always endure to the end. (I'm guessing it's the same in your mission but everyone here usually sort of plods through Week 6 until transfers and then we're all charged up again) But this transfer it's been different and it's amazing the difference it has made. And of course the Lord has been merciful in blessing us with success.
Ok Ok I have to go but thanks for all the emails and love and support.Hope you all have a great week!!
Love,
Hermana Dance
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