Sisters Do As Sisters Should: Miracles Happen!

February 24, 2014

Family!!!!

It has been such an amazing week! We have been so blessed to see SO many miracles. It is the best thing ever!!

So I am just loving this area and being out here with all of these wonderful people. I don't know if I ever told you but we are over 2 wards out here and I love it. Both of the wards are amazing and are really trying their best with missionary work. So since we have dinner appointments ever single night, we have decided that we are going to use this to the best of our abilities! at the beginning of the transfer we started calling them in advance and asking them who they know that they could invite for dinner. Then, if not, when we are there for dinner we share a short message and of course ask them who they know. Often times, they don't know anyone at the moment but we have tried something new that is really good. We bring a map of the town that they live in and we ask the parents to prayerfully pick one of the streets for us to contact. From the times that we have done this, the members usually end up picking a street that a friend lives on and they tell us to go and contact them! We didn't think it would turn out that way but it has been so wonderful. Now we are just going to invite them to invite those people to their homes the next time we come over! It is so great. I love doing member missionary work!

As for our investigators, they are so great! I don't think I have told you much about Inga, but she is wonderful. She is a lady from Latvia and she is the most humble and sweet person ever! We have been teaching her and she has a date to get baptised on the 15th of March. She has a cute family with two kids and a husband and we asked her if we could teach her husband. So, we taught him this last Saturday and it was so good. We taught him the plan of salvation and he really loved the idea of getting to be with his family forever and not just "until death do we part" is what he said. Anyway, at the end of the lesson, we started to explain the celestial kingdom and he started talking about baptism and how he wanted to be baptised so that he could be there with his family! So amazing! So we asked him if he would prepare to be baptised on the 15th with his wife and he said yes! ahh such a miracle. I am so excited for them to get baptised and he is already saying how he is excited to go to the temple in a year and get sealed with his family! I love teaching families and seeing the happiness and unity it brings!

We also had another really great miracle this week. We were out at night trying to find someone who hadn't been to church in a really long time and the church doesn't even know where they are anymore, that type of thing. So we went to the house and no one was there. Well, we decided to go tract a couple of houses before our next appointment. We started and it was dark and kinda scary... haha (that is just me being a baby) but we knocked on some doors and no one was really interested. Then, we decided to just keep going. We got to a door and I turned to Sister Griffith and said, "This is the door where the person we need to save is going to be behind". Anyway, this cute, young, American girl answered the door and quickly invited us in. She is from Oregon and grew up with a lot of Mormons and currently her really good friend is serving a mission in south america. She told us how earlier that morning she was wanting to start going to church and she was wondering which one she should go to. She said, "I think there is a reason that I met you today!" (So true and we were so happy that she realized that) So we shared a short version of the restoration with her and she said, "Wow, that makes so much sense. I wish I would have learned more about this before". She then asked us if we could say a prayer with her and we asked if she wanted to learn more and quickly said, "of course!". We are seeing her this week and I am so excited! We just became instant best friends! Such a miracle. AHH I know that the Lord really does prepare His children to receive His gospel. I have been soooo blessed to be able to witness it so many times.

Well family, I love you all so much. Keep being you and keep being the best. I love you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

Love, Sister Ellsworth