Holy cow! What a whirlwind of a
week! Can I just say what an amazing week it's been?! We seriously are
exhausted. But that's the way we
like it! We've been running non
stop.
We had MLC this week which was
AMAZING. I love getting to see
President and Sister Wadsworth.
They're the best:) funny story - We had
pizza for lunch, and Sister
Wadsworth ate a piece of one that was super spicy! So I went to get one of
the same and President was standing by the pizza. He saw me going
for the spicy one and he's like "Now Sister Hodgson, you better
watch out! I want you to be careful...the spicy stuff might
taste a lot like bear spray." Hahaha
Literally it never fails-every time
I see president, every email he has some new reference to bear
spray. It's super impressive how creative he's gotten! Haha love him
to death:)
THE MTC gang!!
Anyway, super insane week! We hit
the ground running HARD! We were going through cleaning out our area
book and we've been finding people like crazy! Our area has been super
hoppin with less active work which
is awesome! And can I just say when you set
goals with the Lord, things work out?! We met D… she's
met with missionaries before but
never got baptized because she was having trouble keeping the
commandments...it had been quite a while so we figured we would visit her again. We had an amazing lesson with her! Turns out, one of the reasons she's
been having trouble keeping the commandments is because
she's missing the "why" behind it. We talked about prophets and she had
a super skewed perception of what a prophet is. It was so sweet to
hear her say "Well if a prophet really speaks for God, then I better
do what they say to do, right?" It
was precious. We look forward to meeting with her.
We also had another awesome miracle
this week!! So Sister Fletcher and
I are praying to see miracles here
in our area. And by golly we are seeing them! So we had a referral
from a member that we felt super good about but couldn't seem to ever
get a hold of her. We tried her countless times at different times
of the day, different days,
everything and she never answered.
So One night we pulled up and decided that this would be our last
time trying to contact her before we would have to drop her. We prayed
hard before going to her door for a miracle that she would be home and
answer the door. We knocked and no answer. We knocked again...no
answer. We decided to knock one more time. So my super inspired companion
busts out this random knock in a
weird pattern that we had never done
before. A few seconds later the door swings open and she's like
"John! What are you doing?! Oh. You aren't John." She went on to
explain that she and her neighbor have a secret knock that they do and she
never answers the door to anyone
except that knock! Haha woah! She's
like "How did you know the knock?!" Haha the Spirit told
Sister Fletcher, that's how!! Haha. We are super excited to be meeting with
her tomorrow! Turns out she later contacted the member that
referred her to us and shared a
quote from the AA program that she's
going through that basically said "If religion knocks on your
door you better listen" and she thanked him for sending us. Such an awesome
miracle!! Always pray in faith! Miracles happen!
J is also doing good...were teaching
him, getting him ready to be re-baptized. He's doing so good!
Gosh I love him.
It's so hard to fit a whole weeks
worth of stuff into one email! Especially
when it's a "missionary time" week
and it seems like it's a month long
but also 2 seconds at the same time...if that makes any sense?
So...we hit our year mark. It marks a
full year of the best things of my life. Some of the toughest but 100%
the best. I've met the most amazing people, laughed the hardest
laughs, and cried the hardest cries. But my testimony of this
gospel was strengthened in ways I
never thought it would until it
happens. I can just testify that our Savior is amazing. I love Him so
much and my testimony of the
Atonement has been strengthened
tremendously. I couldn't do any part of
this without Him.
I love you all! Hope you have an
amazing week!!
W/<3
Sister Hodgson
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