This was another awesome week! It started out fantastic last Wednesday with the Yankees losing, and has just been a lot of fun since then.
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| Sadie reassured her Dad of her allegiance to The Reds…."I really do hate the Yankees!" |
We have been focusing A TON with members and less actives in family history work, and on Thursday we had a really special experience with Jorge's (Lego kid, recently baptized) family. His parents were baptized around 10 years ago but they haven't been really active. Martha, Jorge's mom, had her father die when she about 3-years-old. She has heard that before he died he had attended an LDS church a couple times in Ecuador, but she didn't know much more. We decided to look him up on familysearch.org. He immediately popped right up, and to our surprise, we find that all his temple ordinances have been done, except for sealing to parents!! With more investigation, we found out that her dad had actually been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ONE month before he passed away.
Martha's uncle had finished the temple work, since he is a member as well (Martha doesn't have much contact with him). The spirit of Elijah just filled the room. It was so incredible to see her excitement in finding out that her father was a member of the Church!! After that, Marta's older brother walked in and told us that he remembered the baptism of their father because he was there. It was crazy!!!! I definitely believe that Martha's father had an impact on her conversion 10 years ago, even though he was on the other side of the veil. We are blessed with ancestors who know the truth and who are doing all they can to make sure that we can return to live with them.
Thank you for your prayers in helping us to find people to teach!! We have been praying as well and were blessed with a really neat miracle on Sunday. We have been focusing on street contacting, and even though it scares the heck out of sister Vicino, she is doing an awesome job, and we are being blessed for it. On Sunday we were sitting in ward council when we received a call from an unknown number. We rushed out to answer it and on the line was a woman named Angelina, asking us where the church was located. Turns out Angelina was baptized when she was 12-years-old, has been inactive for years and years! Her son just moved here from Mexico and together they want to start going back to church!!! We were kind of freaking out!! They didn't make it this week, but we are continuing to contact them. It's crazy how God blesses us with new people to teach who are ready to hear the message of the restored gospel, whether they've already heard it once or not. It's awesome!!!
On the more hilarious side, yesterday we found a 30-ish year old man from Morocco. We started talking to him about God and he started asking questions about what we do as missionaries. We explain how we leave everything behind to serve The Lord and do our thing out here. He asks if we left boyfriends behind too. Sister Vicino says no, and then he turns to me and says, "And what about you Sister Dodson?" I say no, and then in the thickest Middle eastern accent I have ever heard he says, "You look for one? You look for me?" Oh man I was dying! Hahahaha. I let him down pretty easy, but definitely we will be sending some elders over to his house to teach him. What's funny is that chances are, God lead us him and we probably really were looking for him.... Just not in that way... Haha.
Love you all! The Church is true and we are so blessed to live in a country with religious freedoms where we can exercise our God-given agency.
Love,
Hermana Dodson
Thank you for your prayers in helping us to find people to teach!! We have been praying as well and were blessed with a really neat miracle on Sunday. We have been focusing on street contacting, and even though it scares the heck out of sister Vicino, she is doing an awesome job, and we are being blessed for it. On Sunday we were sitting in ward council when we received a call from an unknown number. We rushed out to answer it and on the line was a woman named Angelina, asking us where the church was located. Turns out Angelina was baptized when she was 12-years-old, has been inactive for years and years! Her son just moved here from Mexico and together they want to start going back to church!!! We were kind of freaking out!! They didn't make it this week, but we are continuing to contact them. It's crazy how God blesses us with new people to teach who are ready to hear the message of the restored gospel, whether they've already heard it once or not. It's awesome!!!
On the more hilarious side, yesterday we found a 30-ish year old man from Morocco. We started talking to him about God and he started asking questions about what we do as missionaries. We explain how we leave everything behind to serve The Lord and do our thing out here. He asks if we left boyfriends behind too. Sister Vicino says no, and then he turns to me and says, "And what about you Sister Dodson?" I say no, and then in the thickest Middle eastern accent I have ever heard he says, "You look for one? You look for me?" Oh man I was dying! Hahahaha. I let him down pretty easy, but definitely we will be sending some elders over to his house to teach him. What's funny is that chances are, God lead us him and we probably really were looking for him.... Just not in that way... Haha.
Love you all! The Church is true and we are so blessed to live in a country with religious freedoms where we can exercise our God-given agency.
Love,
Hermana Dodson
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