First off, my heart goes out to the Robbins family and the Vegas Valley, my prayers are with you!
This week we had a pleasant surprise when tracting. We had a little time before our appointment and we decided to tract a street. We talked to two people, both of which were not interested, but pointing us to a house that had "11 people" living in it. After 2 people telling us we decided to knock on the door. A teenage girl answered the door and invited us in. . .so we walked in, and the neighbors were right, there were tons of people in that house! One lady who identified herself as Niki asked us if we were in the Mishawaka Ward...Members? Wait what? We thought we knew where all the Mormons were haha turns out she had just moved in 3 months ago and her records hadn't been moved yet. She is living with her sister and her family, her dad, and a friend is staying with them (hence all the people) and we found out she is a convert so none of her family members are Mormon! They were super friendly so hopefully there is some potential there!
We have really been trying to work with the part-member families here in Mishawaka and by some miracle (see they are everywhere!) we were able to find this lady after loads of finding (and talking to her ex-husbands grandma haha yeah, we get pretty creative)! We were able to go to her home right when she was leaving and meet her!! I think I am starting to understand what it is like to be the Shepherd looking for His lost sheep in the wilderness because to Him "none of them are lost." (3 Nephi 27:31)
Last but not least I am grateful for the words of the Prophet and Apostles this past weekend. It is truly inspiring to know we have men called of God on earth to lead us in these tumultuous times. We saw blessings as we watched it in the home of the Garay family and with a Less-Active. The Garay home was busy, little children running around, but the messages of the Prophets sounded clear and the messages sunk into their hearts. Sara started quoting the talk about serving those around us to her children, inviting them to love one another. Luz who told us in times past always had to be doing something during conference, sat with us to take notes :) We showed a talk to a less-active who's 9 year old daughter goes to church by herself, and she was encouraged by this talk and opened up to us about her reservations when it comes to church. We were able to invite her to pray about those things and she was able to learn from herself by the Spirit that it is so important for her to be an example to her daughters.
Something that stood out to me in particular was the countless speakers who shared stories of following the counsel of the messages last conference. Totally reminds me of what we do as missionaries when we extend a commitment, we follow up! It is so special to know that even the apostles follow the counsel of the Prophet, Thomas S. Monson and they experience the blessings he promises and more. If you have not watched all the sessions of General Conference, I invite you to do so! You will be blessed by the messages, you will have more peace, the Spirit will be able to inspire you, and you will draw closer to God and in the words of Elder Uchtdorf "your life will be better." What greater things could we want?
Serving with a Smile,
Sister Bradley
Pictures:
And they say missionaries are boring...
Our district is 1/2 new missionaries!!! It's a good time!
Lesson with the Elkhart sisters! We passed off one of our investigators to them!
Someone decided to set off fireworks Saturday night, we figured it was probably in celebration of conference :)
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