Hola mi familia!!
This week was crazy and exciting! We were able to accomplish A TON this week. Along with going to fun dinner appointments, having all our meetings, and doing a bunch of service, we were able to exceed our goal of 30 lessons, by teaching 31 lessons!! It was an incredible week of miracles.
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"Look, Hermana Tirado's Mom found us at Deseret Book!! You have no idea how badly I want to use the action figures I left at home whether I am teaching kids or not….haha"
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On Saturday we had an amazing miracle as God showed us HIS plan for us. As we have really been focusing on faith, I have seen this happen over and over again. We had planned to see an investigator that has been coming to the church for the past 8 years, but we had never really met (or taught). The week before she had said she would be free, so we planned her in for 5:30. Earlier in the day we called her, only to find out that she had something she had to go to. So instead, we went to a house-blessing party of our member's sister (Spanish people throw parties for every occasion. BOOYA.). After being at the party for a little bit helping cook and set up tables and such, at about 5:45 members of the ward and friends started showing up. And guess who walked in the door?? Our 8-years-coming-to-church investigator!! It was crazy how God confirmed the plans we had made, just in a different way than we expected. And it was an amazing experience because we just got to know her. We didn't focus on forcing a lesson, we just focused on getting to know her more. There is definitely trust between us now, and that will go a long way. We are so blessed!! Later that night, we left the party and went to stop by and see Sandra and family. We were able to contact them and see how they were doing, but they were headed out so we didn't get to teach a lesson. By this time, it was 8 o clock at night, we were on a road that is a little sketchy when it gets dark (meaning we only had about 45 minutes on that road before sundown), and had a goal to teach 3 more lessons. We prayed and then decided to just go walk up the other side of the street. In those 45 minutes, we were able to teach 2 people. One was just sitting on his porch, so we went and talked to him. He didn't say anything that would implicate that he was searching or struggling, but as we taught him, I felt so impressed that he was looking for God in his life. The next man we taught was fixing his fence, and after talking to him for a minute, we found out that most of his family is Mormon, and he wanted to know more!! We were really blessed to see God re-arranging our plans.
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"I got my haircut (after 9 months) by a cute Venezuelan Lady. It feel great because it's so light weight!"
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We are seeing a lot of success as we are meeting and talking to new people every single day. We still have very lofty goals for baptisms this month, and from a doubter's view, we would be in trouble. But we know that with God's help, nothing is impossible.
Yesterday we had a really powerful first lesson with a new investigator, Mayra. She has had the missionaries over before and she has a lot of really amazing questions about the Book of Mormon. We were able to testify of the importance of the book, not only in supporting the Bible, but in giving us the fullness of the Gospel and testifying of Jesus Christ. At the end of the lesson she was extremely excited to read and for us to come back to teach her more. She is so prepared!!! I can't even handle it. This place is BLOWING UP.
Love you all, thank you so much for all the prayers and support.
Love,
Sister Dodson
p.s. Funny story, yesterday we were street contacting and I went up to this man about our age and said "Hola! Como esta?" Come to find out, he was Indonesian... hahaha
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