The Errand of Angels: Week 23 God's Schedule

Hi Everyone!

How are you?! How was Mother's Day?! Did all you women get treated well?

This week was absolutely amazing! Its spectacular what can happen when we strive to dedicate every moment to serving God and putting our faith fully in Him.

Our number of lessons increased dramatically over the last week. God blessed us tremendously as we followed the Holy Ghost on how to find. Saturday almost every moment was inspired. I feel so blessed and humbled. God's hand is in this work. I know that there will be hard weeks in the future... no doubts about that one ;) but I also have no doubt that this is God's work. He is watching out for us. As we strive to put all our focus on Him, He will allow us to do His work His way. Wow, do I ever love being a missionary.

I am still going through my Refiner's fire, but striving my best to learn and find joy. It is exciting to become more Christ-like.

Oh, and we invite everyone to be baptized in the first lesson. We have not had a "no" yet!! Everyone says yes to either soft commit (after you find out this is true...) or hard commit (on a certain date). Now, we have just 1 date set because some of those people disappear, but the beautiful thing is that we invite! Man, I love being a missionary. There is something so powerful about the message of the Restoration that rings true to all that hear and moves them to act on that truth and desire to be baptized. This is not a shy work at all.

So, highlights of the week:

Skyping with my parents for Mother's Day (obvious highlight)

Seeing dolphins in the wild

Eating a frog leg (yes, I did that)

AND:

Heavenly Father truly controlling every step of our schedule!! There are way to many highlights to share about this, but here is an example:

Saturday, 11 May:

Had studies/meeting go late, but only had a few established appointments.

Headed over to a recent convert. Stopped when we didn't feel right about it. Prayed, and decided to head to our first appointment early and talk to everyone along the way and see who Heavenly Father wanted us to find. The first person in our path (who we wouldn't have met if we weren't heading to the recent convert) prayed with us, opened up about her son with addictions, gave us a referral for him, and wanted us to come back.

Got to our appt on time. They weren't there. Left some info. Went to a potentialinv across the street. Not home. Prayed. Was going to leave but felt like should knock on a door across the street. Very not receptive. The potential inv came back home right then and we were able to give her a Book of Mormon and have a quick lesson.

Left for the recent convert again. Felt like we should go back and knock on the one neighbor. Did. Not receptive. Before we left the person we had the first appointment with came back. Was able to talk to her and her mom. Awesome.

Was biking away and felt like we should stop by another potential inv. Did. Prayed with her. Biked to the recent convert (nursing home). Had never been there. Felt inspired to use a bike path that we had never used. Met a lady in an electric wheelchair. She knew the recent convert. Very receptive to gospel. She traveled with us to the nursing home. The recent convert was walking into the main area right as we came in. Had a lesson with both of them. The security guard listened in to the entire thing. It was an awesome lesson.

Got a steak dinner. Had a spectacular lesson with a part-member family.

Then felt like we should visit another potential inv. Went on a street that we only go on to visit them. Met a lady, taught her, soft committed her to baptism.

Yeah, that is kind of what happens when you follow the Spirit. Things are awesome. I love it when God controls our missionary work.

One more highlight:

Yesterday we felt like we should change our plans at night and visit a returning member. Went there. Not home. One the way back felt like we should tract a street, but only like 5 minutes before we had to head home. Knocked two doors. No time now. Felt like we needed to knock one more. We can only get home after 9:00 if we are in a lesson. Prayed and moved forward with faith that the door would turn into a lesson. It did, and a new investigator. It was awesome. I love how the tiniest promptings from the Holy Ghost can lead to such amazing blessings.

Your invitation: Compliment someone who looks like they are having a bad day. It goes a long way.

Have a great week!

Sister Jenkins