Week 12: Visitors Center Miracles

A letter we received this week about Logan:

We are a senior missionary couple serving in the Employment Resource center in Independence, MO. We have had the opportunity of attending and serving in the Independence 3rd Ward with your daughter, Sister Cammack since she came 7 weeks ago. We were so excited when she and Sister Davidson came to our office last Thursday, transfer day, and told us they got to stay together in 3rd ward. It has been a privilege to have the sisters come to dinners at our apartment home and teach us.

It is a great blessing to feel of Sister Cammacks sweet spirit and her testimony as she and Sister Davidson reach out and teach our downstairs neighbor, Joyce. These sisters are so in tune with the spirit, sensitive and caring of Joyce's feelings and spiritual experiences. Last night was a very special experience again as they taught Joyce about the priesthood. Joyce is not the usual investigator, such a spiritual sister already that reads the scriptures daily.

Sister Davidson has been with us in our ward since Thanksgiving and a powerful example and mentor. The two are exceptional together and we love them.

Thank you for rearing such a beautiful radiant prepared daughter.

Sincerely.

Elder and Sister Holdaway

And Logan's letter to the family this week:

Hello family!

I hope that everyone's week has been super awesome! Mine has been great as always! I love serving in the visitors’ center so much because I see a miracle there every single day, it’s crazy. Sunday was an especially amazing day. Thursday-Saturday had been rough trying to help the new set of sisters in our ward out and getting our teaching pool divided in half with them and trying to figure out things like that. It was putting a stress on my companion and my relationship as well because we were in charge of so many changes that needed to happen.

So, Sunday was fast Sunday and I fasted for 3 things, that the new sisters would be able to get used to the ward quickly and enjoy serving here, that my companion and I could get used to them quickly and be grateful for them, and that my faith could continue to grow. So, I go about my Sunday activity and we had a short morning shift at the VC and it was so bad, my comp and I weren’t in sync so the Spirit couldn’t be there and the tours were a jumbled mess. So, then we went to church and it was amazing. So many people spoke on faith and we got the spiritual upliftment that we needed. After church, we went back to the VC and we had a guy come in who wanted to watch the new Book of Mormon translation videos, which are the most amazing videos on this earth. (You need to watch them asap- I think they are only at visitor’s centers though.) We watched those with him and the Spirit was so so so strong. And then we took him through a history tour and it was the most spiritually uplifting tour I have ever taken. My comp and I were in perfect unity because we were both listening to the Spirit and the Spirit was telling us the same things, it was amazing. Afterwards we both just felt like we were floating, it was so amazing. And so much of what I was being prompted to say on the tour was about faith. It is so cool that as I was speaking about faith, I was learning about faith as well and my faith was being strengthened. When we listen to the Spirit as VC sisters it is able to reveal things to us that we have not realized before about the presentations or it connects gospel principles to the tour that usually you wouldn’t think of right away but that gospel principle always helps the person taking the tour. It is so amazing serving here! Anyways, so before I was even done fasting that day, all my fasting prayers had been answered! It is amazing how the Spirit works and how Heavenly Father is right there to help you, we just need to reach out and grab His hand. 

Another awesome thing about this week, I met 2 criminal justice majors. They were a married couple. One of them was an attorney and one taught at a university. The woman was the one who taught at the university and she gave me her name and told me to email her when I get off my mission and she would love to talk. And she gave me some tips. Then we went to dinner at a member’s house and they said their dad had been a CIA agent and they knew someone who started an anti-human trafficking group and that they could get me the name of it.. And then! Two days ago, a woman came into the VC and she was talking to the senior sister forevvvvvver. Then after a few hours the senior sister asked me to take her to the Christus statue. So, as I was doing that she was sharing with me a little about why she had come in. She is a non-member and she was a human trafficking victim. But she said that today is the day it’s going to change and she is going to get the help she needs. She was such an inspiration to me because she believed so fully in God and Jesus and she knew that they were there to help her. She had already seen multiple miracles that day and then when I told her I wanted to go into anti-human trafficking she paused and then she was like, God has given me so many miracles today and now look, here is another one. He has led me to someone who wants to stop this evil from happening. How many miracles will he give me. And then we talked for a bit and I showed her the Christus and bore my testimony and truly what a miracle it was that I was the one to take her because we had 5 other sisters on shift, I just happened to be closest to the Christus at that exact moment. God is so great! 

I love you all so much!!!!!

Sister Cammack