3 Baptisms and a Potluck

The movie is called "3 weddings and a funeral" right? I can't Google stuff to verify but I was trying to be funny... Holy cow this week! I don't even know what happened. They aren't joking when they say the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days.

Let's start off with some miracles shall we?? 

▪R-, D- and J- got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm honestly honored and blown away by God's mercy and goodness in letting me participate in their journey. God truly prepares people and although R-'s seed took 20 years to grow I'm grateful I got to be here to see it bloom. And get this?? Their family got a 24 hour notice to leave their home on the day of their baptism. I think that's a pretty good excuse to call it off but their faith is so strong and nothing was going to stop them this time. It was a very special occasion.

▪S- and A- (the 2 middle daughters)  have decided they want to get baptized too!! We've set April 14th as their date. And it would be even cooler if J- can receive the priesthood because he could baptize his daughters. Super cool. We're hoping to get them all to the temple.

▪So one day we were volunteering at Habitat for Humanity and this guy comes in and sees us and goes "sister missionaries?..." and were like "have you seen missionaries before?" And he's like "of course, I'm kind of a prodigal son" and he said he'd really been having a rough go of it lately and was debating just packing up and buying a one way plane ticket to Salt Lake and start over. He felt he should go to Habitat and donate all his stuff and he saw us and was just awestruck. He couldn't get over it. The elders gave him a priesthood blessing. Just a cool experience of being in the right place at the right time. 

▪So somehow every time Sister Hunsaker and I try to visit someone who lives a gated community, a car somehow passes by and we can follow behind them and get through the gate. EVERY TIME. Like how often do cars drive into private communities? Moral of the story: gated communities aren't that gated.  Nothing stops the missionaries. 

▪We had another awesome contact due to the rescheduling of appointments. Often times I'm disappointed when people flake out or aren't punctual to appointments but then I'm always reminded that the Lord is constantly guiding us. If we hadn't gone to this house when we did we probably wouldn't have met K-. We shared with her about the plan of salvation on the doorstep and about how the gospel could answer all her questions. She almost got emotional. We felt the spirit so strong. 

▪The Book of Mormon is a miracle people!!! We had a contact with this sister of a less active and she was Methodist and had a few misconceptions about it. When we told her that it was translated from an ancient record of the people in America everything changed. She was so intrigued and when we gave her the Book of Mormon she was so grateful. And that's not the first time I've seen that happen. There's something different about the Book of Mormon. If you haven't read it recently. DO IT. 

I'm looking forward to this next week! It's going to be crazy but I like it when it's busy. We have Zone Conference tomorrow which we're giving a training at. Wednesday we're going on exchanges. Friday is our temple trip and then we have General Conference!! Everyone write down 3 questions you have and bring them to conference. I promise they'll be answered. Don't forget to see the hand of the Lord in your life. It's there everyday.