Hello Family,
Transfer week has arrived again and we received our calls last night. Sister Christensen is leaving and I will be staying here for at least another transfer. We'll find out who our new companions are this Thursday. We ended the transfer well and this past week we've seen many miracles.
One came this Friday. We were in a neighborhood trying to contact a few people but no one answered. We saw a man on his phone and we went to go talk to him. I usually am a little apprehensive about talking to people who are on the phone because most people don't like it, but we've been desperately looking for people to teach and nothing happens in missionary work until we find someone.
When we walked up he immediately told the person he was on the phone with that he had to let them go and then he allowed us to introduce ourselves. He told us his name was Peter and that he'd been taught by the missionaries a few years ago in San Antonio but they didn't move forward, because he couldn't stop smoking. He's a truck driver and is on the road a lot. He has a lot of time to think and he told us he knows he needs to change and wants to start learning about the church again and stop smoking.
We prayed and shared a brief restoration and talked about some of the things he remembered from when the Elders were teaching him. We invited him out to church and he seemed really excited to come. We planned to give him a call Saturday night to remind him but our night was full and it slipped our minds. After our PEC Meeting on Sunday we called him and he said he was on his way out the door. He showed up about fifteen minutes before church started and he loved it! We'd planned to meet up with him again this week and later that afternoon he left Sister Christensen and I a message thanking us for finding and inviting him to come out to church. It was great.
As you all know it was fast and testimony meeting this week and I always get a little nervous to have investigators there but it was a really spiritual meeting. I felt Saturday night that I should share my testimony (which is something I'd never done) and I felt that I should talk about the Atonement. When the meeting started my heart was pounding and it went even faster when it was time to share our testimonies. One of the Elders went to share his testimony and he spoke about the Atonement. His companion who is going home this week also went and talked about the Atonement. The Spirit was so overwhelming and I knew I needed to get up and talk about the Atonement too. So I did; and it was great. Sister Christensen also bore her testimony and everyone kept telling us how good it was to hear from the missionaries. I love fast and testimony meeting. I feel that I got so much more out of this one because I shared something that's been developing. It reminds me of a quote by President Monson regarding testimonies where he basically said as we share them they grow but when we don't we could lose what we have.
Another Sister in the ward shared her testimony and some of her comments are forever embedded in my mind. She told us a few nights ago she was on the phone with one of her friends and her friend asked her why she was a member of the Mormon church. She compared her desire to live the gospel to breathing and she said "If you breathe you stay alive, so why wouldn't you want to breathe?" and then she said "If you live the principles of the gospel you will have true happiness, so why wouldn't you live it"? It's simple but it made a lot of sense to me.
Later Sunday evening we attended a wedding that was for a couple the Elders found knocking a few weeks ago, they've been taking the lessons and will be baptized next week. Miracles are happening for sure in our little Zone and Mission. My testimony of the Lord preparing people to receive His gospel has been strengthened a lot this past week.
I feel like I could write forever but I'll let you go now. Thank you for your prayers and for all of your support. Have a great week.
Love you guys,
Sister Green
P.S. I attached a few pictures. The first one is with a member in my last area (Sister Alvarado) and the other two were taken on my birthday...Don't mind the crooked candles on the cake:)
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