This week was definitely an interesting one! Sister Trujillo and I are now famous!!! We were knocking doors around one of our ward members' houses and they got a notification from the neighborhood watch on their phone. The notification was a video of Sister Trujillo and I standing on a doorstep and the caption said, "Beware! Two crazy girls with bibles!!!" Needless to say no one opened their doors that night...... but I mean we did look gorgeous in the video!!
Jesse moved to Castic this week so we taught him our last recent convert lesson with him... It makes me sad, but I know that his new ward will take good care off him. Stephanie also moved this week, so we lost two of our investigators! She moved to Florida, and we are praying that she can find our church there. Our part member family, the Gills family, is doing very well, but they weren't able to make it to church this week.
We had a wonderful Zone Conference this week and I got to see two of my MTC buddies!! In our conference we really focused on how to bring more people to church and what we can do better to explain the importance of sacrament.
Sunday we were able to go to the "Face to Face" broadcast with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard. I really loved it!! One of my favorite things they said was that the only label we want to have is that we are Children of God. Always remember that, and let people know who you are! https://www.lds.org/
We have been trying really hard to find more people to teach. Sister Trujillo and I decided to do a YSA blitz. This is where we get to ask the other missionaries in our zone to knock in certain areas and if they find YSA (young single adults) they give them to us to teach because we are over the YSA. We had a fast as a companionship for inspiration on where to have the missionaries in our zone knock. We were driving home after an appointment and we got a call from our zone leader Elder Kerr and his companion Elder Noble.
He said, "Sisters what ever you are doing... ( immediately we both started panicking because we thought we were in trouble) keep doing it!! (sigh of relief). "We had an appointment to meet with our investigator at the "Face to Face" but he didn't show." We then decided to stay at the "Face to Face" instead of leaving early like we had originally planned. After the "Face to Face" we were going to bike to our dinner appointment but because we were in our suits, we decided to walk. We took a route that normally we would never have taken on a bike. As we were walking, we saw a young guy sitting on sidewalk and felt impressed to go talk to him. He was going through a divorce and was just kicked out of his house. He is interested in the gospel and wants us to teach him again'!!! The whole day played out perfectly for us to be able to find Matt. We will being handing him over to you shortly so that he can begin receiving the lessons!!!"
Our fast worked!! The Elders found someone for us!!! I want you to all to know that the Lord's hand is in our lives everyday. He listens to our prayers and helps us accomplish our goals. There is power in fasting!! It will bless your lives and the people you are fasting for lives as well. There is nothing more wonderful then sharing this amazing gospel with our friends and family! Be proud to stand up for what you believe!!
I love you all!! Sister Howard
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