Feliz Cumpleanos: My wonderful Aunt Bee!!, Sweet Kaylee!!!
A little bit about this week! We had a great week, we had tons of
miracles. Our first counselor wants us to work with less actives, so we
are on operation finding lost sheep. It's great because we lost all of
our investigators! So it's been great!
On Wednesday, our bishop told us to go find this less active named
Angelica Escobedo. Her home just happens to be right down town. So we
were like, YESS, OUR WARD IS DOWN TOWN, our area is definitely the
city, we just work in one little area where most of the Hispanics are,
this less active is pretty down town, so we set off Hermana
kohlhase and I. It was at 6:00 on Wednesday and we were all bundled up,
mother coats, scarves, hats, 2 leggings, all of it, and we rode the
train. (Train and bus contacting is really just the best) we rode
pretty down town and had to take the bus, and then we walked and
walked and finally got to her home. Her home was a house with 4
or 5 different floors (like every house here in Chicago) and so we
start at the bottom and start to knock and no one was there, then we
get to the top, the last floor where she could be and we said,
"man, she isn't here!" So, then we are walking all down the stairs
when, bamb, the door opens, and Hermana kohlhase and I looked at each
other and we knew it was them, so we ran down the stairs and there was
an Hispanic looking lady with a ton of clean laundry. Prime moment.
"Hi! Can we help you?" Us. Her. "Hi Hermanas! Sure!"...... Angelica it
was! So we went in, and got to know her and her two kids. Her little
sister was also there. She has two cute kids and has been a member her
whole life, just very less active. We had a good time and we showed
her a video and then we asked, "Angelica, can we teach you every
week?" With tears in her eyes, she said, "Si Hermanas." Then she wiped
the tears away and said, the Elders try to visit me, but my husband is
never here, and I just want Hermanas, and here we came! What a
miracle! So we will be helping her! It was a testimony to me of how
the Lord works. We found her just in time to do some service and get
on good terms with her. Also, her husband isn't a member. We are going
to be going to them every week for sure :) We are now just going to
hunt down all of these less actives we have, while still trying to find
new investigators! On Sunday we also saw Angelica's dad, he is in a
different ward, so I didn't know him. Hermana kohlhase did, and she
said "that's her Dad!" And we told him we found his daughter and
he looked at us, tears filled his eyes, and he said, "Hermanas muchas
gracias." That is the gospel.
Miracle: El Hermano Villanueva and Oscar are officially active and
they BLESSED THE SACRAMENT. The poor Hermano was so nervous, it took
him around 5 times, but he did it! Also Oscar (his son who is 20) got a
new calling, he is the NEW ASSISTANT WARD MISSIONARY LEADER,.... when
they announced this I literally (literally) jumped up. I almost
yelled, but I restrained. But I was just SOO happy! Oscar has changed
so much and will do AWESOME in this calling, (hopefully help him to
serve a mission) PS, their family will come see us in Idaho. Practice
some Spanish fam.
Other miracle: We taught Rafael again! Hermana Calderon (his neighbor
who invited him in the first place) went to his house with us and was
like, "Rafael, do you want to be someone? Are you going to meet with these
missionaries? It will change your life! You will know why you are
here! Will you be honest and keep to your word to meet with them?"
(Love Hermana Calderon with all my heart, boldness with love is one of
the best things I have learned on my mission) and he accepted and had
a great lesson with him! We taught the plan of salvation, and we know
that poco a poco he will come to church.
Family, covenants are why we are here! Heavenly Father wants us to
make them. And when we do he expects us to do our part and when we
don't, we are breaking those covenants with him. That's why we are
finding these less actives, they are breaking covenants, and really
it's just hurting them. I know we will find success in this! We will
help them remember their testimonies and help them remember the
covenants they made with Heavenly Father! All my life my goal is to be
a valiant covenant keeper. I have realized that the mission really has
just been like an MTC, or CCM, for the rest of my life and I love it.
Love you all!
All of me loves all of you all!
Hermana Hammond
Before and after sugar bomb fried food!!
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