This last week was such a miracle week for us! I love Qualicum Beach more and more every day, and I am so grateful that I get to serve here with Sister Gibb! She really is just the best. this week we have really focused on following the Spirit while finding. It's really cool. We focused super hard on our goals, but when we were talking to people, we tried our best to make it all about them, and what they needed, not just teaching them about the gospel, and it has really helped us. We saw a ton of really cool miracles, and we were also able to identify things that we can work on to become better missionaries. I feel like this was one of the most productive weeks of my mission, even if my key indicators weren't as high as they usually are.
So G is doing really well. Last week (the week before the one we just finished) he ended up going into the hospital because he had some really bad chest pain. Turns out some of his arteries were blocked and his one stint was failing. So on the 29th, they put four stints in his heart, and he was back home by the 1st! It was actually a super cool miracle, because he has been struggling to quit smoking, and because he went into the hospital, he couldn't smoke! He was there for about a week, and while there, he decided since he had already made it the first few days, he just wasn't going to pick up with smoking when he got home. When we talked to him the first time after he got home, he was super excited, and told us that in not smoking for those 8 days so far (10 now!) he had saved $80! That is a ton of money! he even said that he could pay tithing and still save money not that he is not smoking. He's just the best.Also, super cool miracle yesterday where we got to see a seed that someone else planted begin to blossom. We tracted into this woman who was going through a bit of a hard time. She told us the coolest story. Back when she lived in Winnipeg, she was going through a rough time, and ended up talking to her sister who passed away, asking for some help. Well, a couple hours later, the sister missionaries showed up at her door. One of them had the same last name as this lady's sister! No joke. She spent a little bit of time with the sisters, but it didn't really go anywhere. So yesterday, when we knocked on her door, she thought it was crazy, because she has been going through a hard time again, and she was looking for help, and we showed up. And apparently her maiden name is the Polish version of Peterson. I kid you not. I don't know if it means anything, but she was blown away. Anyway, she is super excited to see us again. Then, a little while later, just before 9, we were trying super hard to talk to everyone and use the last few minutes of the day to our best ability. We spotted two people walking down a street, so we ran over to talk to them. Lo and behold, they are investigators from Los Angeles who are on vacation! So we were able to teach them a short lesson. I am almost positive that their missionaries were praying that these two would run into missionaries on their vacation, because that is exactly what I pray for when my investigators go on vacation. I am so grateful that we were being obedient and trying to talk to everyone and using every moment of our day wisely. Unfortunately, I probably won't ever know what happens with them, but I am glad that I was hopefully able to play a small part in their journey into the gospel. this is really the best work ever. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the gospel. Yesterday, we had a special stake conference, which included a Canada wide broadcast from Salt Lake, with Elder Perkins of the Seventy, Sister Linda K Burton, Elder Holland, and President Eyring. I was especially touched by part of Elder Perkins talk. He told the story of an Elder Johnson from Alberta, serving in the Toronto mission. Several months into his mission, he was struck by a car, and carried 50 feet. They thought he wouldn't make it, and he was nursed for 5 months in a Toronto hospital before he was able to be transported home to Alberta for additional recovery. He underwent 18 hard months of rehabilitation, learned to live with one blind eye, and one deaf ear, and WENT BACK TO FINISH HIS MISSION. He could have accepted an honorable release, and no one would criticize him. But he knows this is the only place to be. He knows this is the Lord's work. At the end of the story, Elder Perkins made a very pt point. If Elder Johnson can do all of that, we can give up anything, be it job, school, hobbies, relationship, whatever we need to, to do what God has asked us to do. We just can't hold back. God has given us too many blessings for us to hold ourselves back when He asks for our help. When the Lord commands ( or just asks, it's the same thing!) we need to do it.
No comments:
Post a Comment