Happy Monday everyone!!! And happy back to school week!!! I hope this last week was great and I hope this week coming up is even better!!
This week was the first week in the new transfer and BOY was it a good one!!! We have been able to work with more and more members and they are just the best! We had a lot of fun with teaching our friends this week and it's been a week of a lot of work!
Little story! A few days ago, we were calling Mia and she didn't answer which is SO WEIRD because she always answers. There was a knock on the classroom door and it was a sweet Online MTC missionary! Her name is Sister Farnsworth and shes headed to OGDEN UTAH woot! We got talking and she just started the MTC a few days ago! We asked her if she wanted to join us for a few lessons with Mia because lessons with cute Mia are in english! It's been so fun! Right after we met Sister Farnsworth, Mia called us right back! What a fun little miracle!!
I'll give you a quick update on our friends!!
-Mia has made a lot of progress this week, we were able to get her energy back and she is THRIVING! She is so ready and excited for baptism. We are really working with her mom to get some friends in the church because we feel like once we can get her a little more involved, she'll be more excited about Mia staying strong in the church as well!!
- I said last week how we were pretty bummed about our in person lessons with Ronak all fell through...well we made another lesson this week and the day of, Jose, his dad, texted us and said he had Corona so it wasn't going to ge good for us to come over! WOW! We didn't see it in the moment while we were sad about having cancelled lessons this past week, but God was protecting us!! So crazy!! We have been praying for their family like crazy!
- Patricia has been progressing a LOT this past week! She has received her answer about the Book of Mormon!!! On one of our calls this week, she started laughing and said that we had trapped her and that the spirit has been helping her believe these things she never would have believed earlier in her life! The next call she told us she believes the book to be TRUE. She is praying about her thoughts on being baptized and we have been praying right along side of her!!
- Okay also!! We were able to start having lessons with our friend Karem again!! She starts cancer treatment again on Monday but she wants to keep meeting with us.
- Last but not least I want to tell you about our NEW FRIEND Eloy!! He was a self reference from our first week here in Largo and we haven't been able to get a lesson with him. Whenever we had prayed about dropping him and allowing other missionaries in the future to see if it's his time, BUT whenever we would do that, he would answer the next call so we have kept him in our contact pool! This past week we FINALLY had a lesson with him and it was GREAT!! He all of the sudden started having time haha!! We love it!! We had another lesson with him on Sunday and WOW he has the strongest spirit!! After we told him about Joseph Smith, he looked at us and sat back and said "wow. How beautiful." He wants to more lessons and we are SUPER happy to be able to teach him!! God is good and this is definitely his work.
I have seen the Lords hand more than ever since being a missionary during this Corona Virus time! I want to share a quote from Elder Holland haha I know what you're all thinking, a week without a quote from President Nelson?! I know I know haha. I LOVE this quote from Elder Holland and it says:
"I promise you He is not going to turn His back on us now. When He says to the poor in spirit, “Come unto me,” He means He knows the way out and He knows the way up. He knows it because He has walked it. He knows the way because He is the way. Brothers and sisters, whatever your distress, please don’t give up and please don’t yield to fear"
Think of how much JOY and HOPE we can receive just by TRYING our hardest. We aren't in this crazy thing called life alone:) We have our Savior, Jesus Christ who has walked each step and is there waiting for us to ask for him and to follow him:)
My challenge for each of you this week is to find and attribute of Christ and study it and really try to incorporate it EVERYDAY. As we continue to become like our Savior, we will find MORE HAPPINESS than we could ever imagine.
God loves you! Christ loves you! I love you! HAVE THE BEST WEEK!!!
Love,
Hermana King :)
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