Mint Canyon is such an amazing area!! It is seriously on fire! We were able to find five new investigators this week just by knocking doors and visiting formers! Their names are Johnny, Samantha, Alexis, Latica and Cristy! They are all extremely cool people who just make me so happy! Sister Smulllins and I are having so much fun trying to figure out this area! We planned a day where we would drive out to an area far away from our apartments and then just bike for the rest of the day... well turns out we read the maps wrong and all the streets were so close to each other that there was no point to bike, so our bikes just sat on our bike rack for a few hours while we walked. Then we accidentally over booked ourselves and had a meeting with the relief society president at the same time as the bishop. We ended up saying a prayer to know what to do and the relief society president promptly canceled on us!
For fast Sunday we decided to fast for our area and we had a load of miracles happen because of it. We went to church and the ward was overjoyed to finally have sister missionaries serving in their ward. Multiple people got up and bore their testimony of the power of sister missionaries and we really started to feel the pressure of what we needed to live up to. The ward loves sister missionaries so much! They honestly want to help us in any way that they can!
We hurried home from church to plan for our day, but Sister Smullin wasn't feeling very good. I told her to rest and I would plan for us. I decided to plan around the area where we would be having dinner. I looked through the area book and found some part-member families to stop by and a few former investigators to try to visit as well. I decided who to stop by, picking everyone on the same street or streets next to our dinner appointment house. Two of the less active ward members I had originally picked to stop by were actually on a street way out of our way. I sat for a minute and decided to pick two other people and started to look for someone else but felt prompted to keep the original two I had down.
We were on our way to knock doors when we decided to stop by the two out of the way ward members I had written down. The first house no one was home. We walked to the second house. It was Sister Burgess's house and when she answered the door we could tell she wasn't having a good day! We soon found out that her husband had just been taken to the hospital because of a stroke! We were able to comfort her, and help her until her daughter could come be with her. After dinner that night we were trying to find another former investigator's house. We walked past two young men Christopher and Jay, we had a small conversation with them and left them a card with the church's number and web-site on it. Later that night we get a phone call from our zone leaders. A young man named Christopher had looked up the church's web-site and he really wanted to learn more! He called the church and was asking for missionaries to please come to his house!! They contacted our zone leaders and they were able to go stop by his house and get a return appointment!
Fasting for miracles really works people!! I know that Heavenly Father blesses us to be at the right places at the right time! He is always watching out for us! I love you all!!
Love, Sister Howard
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