Week 19: Christmas in May

Flowers blooming in front of the Visitor's Center

Hello everybody! This week has been such an amazing week! We have seen so many miracles in our area in just a few short days.

I was really able to experience D&C 84:85 (verse 85 Neither take ye thought beforehand what ye shall say; but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that portion that shall be meted unto every man.)  in person Saturday afternoon. 2 Elders came in with an investigator and right before they walked in I was told that they just needed a teaching room so I went to go greet them and take them to a teaching room. But before I could do that one of the elders looked at me and said, okay, we are ready to start now! And right at that moment one of the senior missionaries hands me the tour slip and says, sorry! I forgot to give this to you! So, I started the tour without knowing any background information. Luckily they wanted to do God's Plan so I was able to look over the tour slip a little bit and pray to know what the investigator needed to hear. I still wasn’t quite sure what I was going to say by the end of God's Plan but I just started talking and the Spirit told me what needed to be said and even gave me a few inspired questions to ask. I was so grateful! It was amazing actually having the Spirit work through me like that and to be able to still give the investigator a growing experience, even though I didn’t have time to prepare.

Our Bishop put us on the cover of the program for Sunday....

Then Tuesday was the huge miracle day. We were on shift in the morning and it was unusually slow, we only took one tour. But it was still a great tour, it was four women from Texas and they were all converts so we got to have a testimony meeting in the middle of the tour and the Spirit was so strong. Then after shift we went to go deliver a Book of Mormon and Bible to a referral from mormon.org. We had seen her a few times before but she was never very open. So as soon as she opens the door she goes, Is that my Bible and Book of Mormon??? She was so excited! It was amazing! So of course we said yes and went on to explain the books of scripture a little bit more. Then she goes, okay so when can you come over next week? We were so blown away! Investigators never ask us to come teach them! Then we called a less active member who has multiple kids who were investigators but they had all moved away recently. And she told us that they are coming to visit soon and are hoping to move back here! Then we went to a less-actives house who never answers the door or lets us in and she answered and set up an appointment with us for later this week! It was so awesome. Then we had to go to the visitor’s center for the rest of the night, so while we were there we decided to call one of our old investigators who dropped us. She apologized and said she has been really busy and we set up a time to meet for next week! I am so amazed and so blessed to see how many miracles that God has given us. This area has been quite slow lately but that is all starting to change and I am so excited to get to teach these people and help them learn more about God and their Savior and how to draw closer to them. 

Fun story, a couple came into the visitors center this week and the woman pulled our director aside and said that her boyfriend has been wanting to get married for years (she is less-active and he is a recent convert) but she has always told him no. She decided that she is ready and said that she was going to tell him at the Christus statue today. So, our director and his wife took them through God's Plan for Families (a presentation on families we have here) and then led them to the Christus where she told her boyfriend! Then they all walked over to the stake center right after and got married!! It was so crazy! No one knew what was going to happen except for her. 

I saw this video on lds.org this week and I love it and the title that they put with it, Distracted by Doubts or Focused on Faith. It is so easy to become distracted by not only our doubts but about others as well. But we are able to overcome these doubts and help others understand as well as we stay focused on our faith and keep Jesus Christ as the focus in our life, not as one of the side things that we think about occasionally. We need to keep the faith to walk on the water and not sink, but because our Savior is so loving we know that He will always be there when we stumble or start to sink. https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-01-024-wherefore-didst-thou-doubt?&cld=HP_TH_18-5-2017_dPFD_fMLIB_xLIDyL1-A_&lang=eng

I hope that you all have a safe week and I love you all!!

Sister Cammack 

We made a gingerbread train this morning with the Johnsons! We decorated it to look like Christmas in May! So there were flowers and snow, haha it was a great time!

 

We decorated our table in our house all fancy! It was so fun.