WEK 66- Ranchester the land of miracles...they are everywhere...Find them!!

Hey hey!! So this week was pretty much awesome! And so dang hard to

put into words...All I can say is I love being on a mission. And I

love this work.

SO. Let's try this

Sister Wong is the most wonderful blend of  spiritual and silly, Crazy and organized , fun and focused!  She is amazing and I love working with her.  Her favorite  food is  Sriracha   toast ,

Monday night, the Sisters from Cody rolled in

around 9pm for exchanges! Such awesome sisters!! I was with Sister

Brown and she is killer!! She's been on her mission for almost 3 weeks

now! We had the lovely opportunity to go to our little town,

Ranchester, to work all day Tuesday. Gosh I love that little place. We

literally just walked around talking with everyone and it was awesome!

But to be honest, the beginning of the day was a little rough...no one

was being very nice. In fact, most people must have just been having a

real tough day cause they were acting quite rude... I kept thinking to

myself "this isn't how it's supposed to go!!! This is Sister Brown's

first exchange and people are supposed to be nice and there's supposed

to be miracles!" At first I just thought that we gotta work through it

because what else can we do? But then what we talked about at zone

training about meaningful prayer and how important it is came to my

mind. One of the missionaries had said that oftentimes, true

meaningful prayer comes when there is a sense of desperation being the

asking. I was pretty desperate. Haha so the prayers started. So so

often. Haha as a companionship and in my head.. every 10 seconds it

felt like. Haha but then the miracles came! We had a couple three that

day.

The first was the D family! I mentioned them a bit last week.

They have been reading the Book of Mormon every night as a family!!

Wooho!! We got to teach the plan of salvation. One of my favorite

lessons. We really focused it on forever families and all 3 of the

kids were super into the lesson! The Spirit was super strong and both

parents testified of the truthfulness of the plan. It was amazing to

see. These truths that they have pushed aside for so long, really

truly hit home and they are able to remember why they love this

gospel and what it means for their family. At the end, we were all

talking about our favorite parts and Travin said "my favorite part was

how we lived with Heavenly Father before earth. I never knew that

before. But I guess since we lived with Him before, God must know us

and love us a lot." Gosh he is the sweetest! It is so precious to see

these simple truths taught. And they just ring true with the kids

Next was C!! She's a potential we've been trying to get ahold of

felt like we should go try. We tried her at first and there was no

answer. Then after we got out of dinner, we felt like we should try

her again. And she answered! We got to talk with her for a while and

introduce the restoration. She just moved into town recently and is

looking for a church. Well guess what! There's definitely a church in

town

The last  was B. B was in our

area book and missionaries has contacted him before quite a while ago

but it wasn't quite his time and he wasn't super interested. We went

back to try him and he sat down in his yard with us for a while and we

got to talk with him. He's been going through some rough stuff and has

been very humbled lately. He said he really wants to know what God

wants him to do because he feels super lost. Sister Brown was so

awesome at testifying and we were able to share a few scriptures with

him to help him feel and recognize how loved by God he is. And he just

soaked it all up! We were there for about 45 minutes and when we were

closing up to go home, he kept asking "what else is there? Do you have

anymore scriptures? Tell me more!" The spirit was definitely there.

It was a huge testimony builder for me. This is the Lord's work. And

we are to be instruments in His hands. I definitely learned once again

the necessity of prayer in this work. And real, true, meaningful

prayer. When we truly and consistently desire things, the Lord can see

that and He answers prayers. Every time. Granted it's not always in

the way we ask, or the way we expect...but he does answer!! And He

leads us to where He needs us.

Things are going so well here! I love this Ward.

So so grateful for the blessing to serve in

this mission. I love this work so much! I love you all!! Until next

week:)

W/<3

 We spent a little while in the family
history library finding music for the special musical number we were asked to do... and snacking on grapes...this is what
happens when missionaries sit for too long. Haha
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

                        

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