Hey everyone,
I really do have an awesome companion. She likes to sing Ariel to me in the mornings. Our neighbors on the other hand not so awesome. We found out yesterday that they are using our water and they have been putting their trash in our garbage bin. Also, did you know that cats sound like babies crying when they are arguing? That woke me up last night! Oh the joys :)
No but really, this week has been a time for enduring to the end. Isn't that just how life is. Up's and down's. We saw a lot of miracles though as we pushed through and still kept our booties out working.
The coolest thing happened this week when we were out street contacting. We walked up to a lady sitting on our porch and she immediately said "Okay, I know who you are, you don't even have to do your shpeal, I have found Jesus and I do not plan on be converted to Mormon" We were a bit stunned as we had only said hi. Instead of walking away though we continued to ask her about her relationship with God and offered to at least share a card with her, she of course said "I already have them all" but MWAHA we had a new one from the Because He Lives video. She accepted and we began to walk away. As we did she started talking to us again and I could tell as she looked at the card the spirit literally softened her heart, you could see her whole demeanor change. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Those are the things you only hear about right? UMM NO, it really does happen. We were not able to set up an appointment but I know one thing is for sure. She felt the spirit.
Another miracle that happened this week is that we were able to teach an investigator who is really close to being baptized but just needs to quit smoking. We have tried and tried to make an appointment since I have been here but it hasn't worked. Finally after this whole time we sat down with him and talked about baptism. Joey is SO ready to be dunked. We are just working with him on addictions. Those are SO hard and it makes me SO grateful that the Savior knows EXACTLY how to help him even if we don't perfectly.
Okay so want to hear something funny now, but not so funny in the moment?
Here we are at the house taking a BREATHER and all of a sudden the door handle starts rattling really hard. Sister Cook and I's heart started racing and we really had NO idea what to do. We call the elders immediately and they were like "oh no one is breaking in, it's probably just two nice guys" OH WE COULD HAVE KILLED THEM!!! It was them at the door. They totally saved their butts though because they had brought us chocolate cake and potato chips and sprite. The day before we had been talking about things we crave. It was SUPER funny later but my gosh, today we are getting pepper spray for our bags!
Well I hope you all are doing really well. Don't forget to pray :)
Love,
Sister Engelbrecht
p.s. it is starting to get REAL chilly here! We were wearing COATS INSIDE!
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