I have never been more tired or more fulfilled in my entire life. This week have quite possibly been the most crazy week of my entire life as well. But, first things first...my trainee is Sister Bitter! She is from Logan, Utah and is fantastic!!! She is very knowledgeable (which you need for this area) and is super excited to work and be obedient! She is definitely one of my graces this week, and I know we will do great things here in Zionsville!
It is so cool to start seeing some of the fruits of the labors of Sister Harris and I. This week because of the work we put in the past 2 transfers, we received 3 NEW INVESTIGATORS!!!!! AND we found 1 on our own accord, with an outstanding total of 4 New Investigators!!! There name's are Soy (Asian man from rest home) Julie (Roman Catholic) Jeff (had friends in High School who were members) and Josh (we found him tracting this week, and he actually put in sprinkler system for the Indiana Temple!). Definitely a new record for Zionsville as far as I know.
On top of all of this, we've had crazy car issues. It started Friday when our car told us we had a low battery, so we called the Elder over the cars, Elder Summers, and he told us to set up an appointment with Firestone at 8am the next day. We went through the day with minimal problems until...we were in a residential area and because it has been freezing (like 0 degrees) we took a U-turn, but because of all the snow, we couldn't see a cement block that was probably 5 inches higher than a curb. Then not only did we hit that, but we got stuck....Sister Bitter tried pushing us out, but wasn't strong enough, so we went to the closest house, with the lights on and knocked on the door to get help, and the man was already putting on his jacket to help us get unstuck. While he was pushing our car out, another young man stopped and asked if we needed help! God loves us. We had ample help to get unstuck, and were so incredibly grateful for that! (Not to mention it was dinner time so we were super hungry.) We made it home, had dinner, but after that, when we got in the car the lights were flickering and the car would die when it was idle...oh no...so we cancelled our nightly appointments because we felt way unsafe driving this car. We called our District leader and he gave us some pointers, and definitely helped me feel peace through all this craziness.
Next morning, we prayed so hard and with so much faith, we could make it to Firestone (just across this super busy street named Michigan Rd) and there was a ton of frost on our car, but to conserve the battery we didn't want to turn on the defroster...so we drove with the windows down so I could stick my head out the window and see where we were going....yep, definitely praying when this happened too. When we go to Michigan Rd there were no cars on it. I have never seen that before! I thanked Heavenly Father and we crossed the road. We made it to Firestone in one piece without our car dying! After 2 hours of waiting there (and trying to study) they sent us down Michigan Rd to the Ed Martin dealership because they said they could fix the battery cable for free. We prayed again and drove to Ed Martin and made it. We explained to them the situation and then started waiting again. We visited a less active by a shuttle they provided and then got lunch and went back to Ed Martin hoping our car was fixed. They told us they needed to show us the car....uh oh. So apparently hitting the cement block did more damage than we thought. We had hit the Achilles heel of the car. Apparently that had shifted back a lot of the car parts and they needed to be replaced, costing a total of $3,000 worth of damage. They found out what happened to the car by shear "luck" they said, hah we know who was guiding them though (once again, thank you Heavenly Father), and they said the car was undrivable. They were amazed we were able to drive the car to Firestone and the Dealership with minimal problems. Woah. God was definitely watching our for us. Anyway, we were driven home by the shuttle and informed our car had to stay there. We called Elder Summers and he said we wouldn't have a car until Monday.
So....this made our life a lot more complicated. We ended up walking in the subzero temperatures to the rest home for Bingo, and for our lesson with Soy. We completely missed bingo because it took an 1 1/2 to walk there but we had our lesson. The Spirit guided the lesson and it went from a lesson about the Book of Mormon, to a Restoration lesson, to teaching Soy about baptism and inviting him to be baptized. He said YES!!!!!!!!! We set his date for February 11th :) We were elated!!!! It was totally worth walking through the bitter cold and snow to have that lesson!!
God blesses those that are diligent and work hard. I am so grateful for the increased faith I have seen as I have trained this week. I have grown in confidence in more ways than I imagined possible. God definitely knows what I need and what I can handle. This is only a small portion of the miracles we saw this week too! "The church is true, the book is blue!" as Sister Bitter would say. I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father who is mindful of us and loves us more than we can comprehend. Look for miracles in your lives. I promise they are there!
Serving with a Smile,
Sister Bradley
A book exchange we found! Guess what book we put inside?? :)
In our Eskimo clothing and ready for the walk to the rest home :)
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