Miracles on Miracles

This week we had quite the adventure! To start off me and Hermana Hanson went to Colombia for exchanges on Wednesday and Thursday. It was so fun to see another area and learn from the sisters there, she gave us so many good ideas. 

On Thursday (might have been Wednesday honestly can't remember) was Mexican Independence day, we were fed looooots of tacos that day, pretty much best day ever. 

We had two awesome miracles this week.

 

The first one was a family we met at English class. About 20 minutes into our class my comp had the impression to go check the parking lot to see if anyone else was coming. Well turns out there was this family of 10 in one big ol' van who was waiting because they didn't know how to get in the building. 

I'm just there teaching the alphabet in English and in waltzes this family and they were the sweetest EVER. I got to talk to them and turns out they had moved from Nicaragua 8 days ago. Literally 8 days. We ended up talking about the gospel and then they asked about our church. I honestly didn't think they were gonna come because we invite like everyone to church and most don't come. But Sunday morning, in waltzes this family of 10, even the grandma came. It was the best thing ever.

The other miracle was being able to visit with a member, Isabel. She is inactive and for about a year the missionaries have been trying to get in contact with her. We happened to drop off a birthday present for her daughter, not really thinking it would go anywhere. And bam. She invited us over again, then again, and again. We've been to this lady's house 4 times in the past week. She's coming back to church I can just feel it.

Something I've been thinking a lot about this week is the faith and strength of the Hispanic members we get to work with. For those that didn't know, we don't have enough people for a branch yet, so we are still just a group that meets in an English ward. We are able to translate the meetings, but it's still not quite the same as full Spanish church. But these few faithful members come every week, with a big smile on their face. Most of them immigrated here 10-30 years ago. I honestly can't imagine how hard it would be moving to a new country, knowing nothing about the language or culture, just in hopes you can provide a better future for your family. They have such resilience and their faith is truly inspiring!

My spiritual thought this week came from a talk I read by elder Uchtdorf. It's called "the merciful shall obtain mercy."

 

The quote I liked from it was, "haven't we all, at one time or another, meekly approached the mercy seat and pleaded for grace? Haven't we wished with all the energy of our souls for mercy- to be forgiven for the mistakes we have made and the sins we have committed?"

This was such a great reminder to me that everyone is just trying their best - everyday. It can be very easy to pass judegment or say harsh things to people. But at the end of the day, we are all sinners, just trying to do better each day :) 

Love u all