dear everyone,
this week was pretty great! we had a couple of amazing miracles
the first was marie-francine. we have been trying to get in touch with her for a long time but nothing ever worked. finally, we were able to meet with her and we had a really uplifting lesson. she has had a really hard life. an unhappy childhood, got into drugs and bad things as a teenager, and has been searching for peace and a better relationship with God her whole life. she told us there were moments when she found it, when she could feel the spirit, but now she can't and she know she is missing something. we were able to show her the Book of Mormon and she is so excited to read it!
the second miracle we had was we had a mini missionary with us this weekend! her name is brenda and she is from the quebec ward where i started my mission. the stake did a big activity this weekend, so we all had mini missionaries from all over the whole stake. sister ellsworth and i were a bit worried because our days haven't always been super busy and we didn't want soeur mosiman to have a bad experience. we prayed so hard and as always, the Lord provided!
saturday our day was full of lessons! we had only 1 set appointment, but we passed by many others and had great lessons. at the end of the day, soeur mosiman told us how special of a day it was for her. we were so grateful and relieved! sunday she was with us, too and we did many pass by's and only spoke to a few people, but at the end of our time together, we had a HUGE miracle! for the past 4 or 5 weeks there has a been a boy coming to church. he is 16 and is friends with a couple of people in the branch, but he comes to church all by himself on his bike. we have been talking to him and trying to set up a lesson with him every single week, but there were many reasons why we couldn't, etc, etc. well, sunday he called US! and asked what we were doing monday night and we said nothing so we have a lesson with him tonight! it's a miracle! after the call soeur mosiman asked if we had people call us a lot to make appointments and we told her that never happens!
this week we were also blessed to do some service outside! we had great weather for a few days. we did gardening and were able to help some of our branch members out. that was a blessing for us!
this week i've been reading in the Book of Mormon the book of Mormon. the people are so wicked. there are wars and they do not want to repent. they boast in their own strength and they did not call on God for help. and many times in the verses it says, "God was not with them." that scares me! i cannot and do not want to imagine a world where God is not with us. reading these scriptures made me appreciate more the Gift of the Holy Ghost and prayer. we do live in a world that has many bad things, but we have a promise that as long as we are faithful, Heavenly Father will never abandon us. i know this is true. He wants us to call on Him for His help and the help of His son Jesus Christ. He loves us.
I love you all!
love,
Soeur Paine
pictures:
our mini missionary
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