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We had a week full of miracles that's for sure! It was pretty crazy!
So we had appointments fall through and met this awesome Philippino
guy named John. Haha, he had just stepped outside and started to smoke
when we contacted him. He wasn't super religious and didn't like
church much so he believed he was fine just to personally communicate
with God through his feelings. We were like, ok. But we asked if we
could share a message and we taught him briefly about the restoration
and he was pretty curious about it. So we were able to give him a BofM
and teach him how to pray.
Then he wasn't able to meet last minute so we had a member with us and
decided to try by a less active. As we parked on Milford St. We looked
over and saw Johnny!
Little background - we met Teresa (member) last Sunday when our
bishopric went to give her and her mom and brother (Johnny) blessings
because of some turmoil that was happening in the family. We asked if
we could meet with Johnny on Tuesday and share our message with him
and he said sure. On Tuesday we drove up and he was ready to drive
away because he got called in to work and he hardly ever could go to
work because he cares for his mom. So we just met with Teresa instead.
We tried texting Johnny but he wouldn't reply
So it was a miracle that we saw him a day later, taking a break from
work, on Milford st. So cool! We had a good lesson with him - I think
all I can say is that it was super powerful but he has a lot of anger
to work through. I think Alma 10:5-6 kind of describes Johnny at this
point - but he's super cool.
We had quite a few people at church yesterday! The big news is that
Heriberto, Connie, and April came. Sister Colson and I randomly found
them and started teaching April back in April and we thought she would
have to get baptized in the Adams Ward (in a different mission)
because her mom (Gigi) goes to that Ward and is the only one that
takes her to church. Heriberto is inactive but will go to church
occasionally so he came with his girlfriend Connie and his active son
Isaiah and Isaiah's wife and little girl. It was so good having them
come to church :)
So we've been struggling getting Vanessa to stop drinking coffee.
She's been drinking it ever since she was 13 and loves it for the
taste. Anyways we bought her some hot chocolate and encouraged her to
drink that instead. The problem is we couldn't keep buying her hot
chocolate and she doesn't have enough money to go get herself some and
they only serve coffee at every meal. It's either coffee or water :(
so we were like, dang, that's temptation staring you right in the
face. However, she had just run out of her third box when this person
who works at the nursing home asked her where her hot cocoa was. When
Vanessa said she was out, this worker went and bought her some hot
cocoa and we've had members bringing it to her as well. Vanessa saw
that as a miracle! And so did we :)
Haha, we did this awesome missionary lesson yesterday during third
hour and it was so funny! So we had members of the Ward help us with
some role plays - scenarios where they might be able to spread the
gospel. We had the Butler family pretend to be a random family playing
outside in their yard and their neighbor (Brother Barry) would try to
contact them and invite them to church. We also asked a member to be
Brother Barry's inner voice as he tried to figure out what he should
say etc. It was so funny! We would pause the role play at a certain
point and then asked the members what Brother Barry could say to
spread the gospel. It was really cool :)
That's about it for this week! I love you all so much! It's Sister
Cook's birthday today!! Thank goodness I saved some of those balloons
you sent me mom :) Love you all so much!
Love, Sister Dunn
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