The Lord loves us over here!

[From Amanda's message on Aug 19, 2013]


Hello!

Wow! Milagros este semana!

We really wanted to reach our goal this week of having 7 lessons with members present. By Saturday we had had 5, so we needed 2 more on Sunday. We had one scheduled with Carl, and we were praying for one more.

We ended up getting to have a lesson with a lady who's not a member but has been coming to church for a year! We're excited to work with her.

Then Carl cancelled so we went to visit them and see what's wrong.

Okay so Carl needed tons of help at his house cause he is disabled so we put together a service project for him! That was super fun. He loves the church so much and knows this is what he needs. His girlfriend told us yesterday that she's not ready for this right now though :( We hope he'll still want to learn in the meantime, but they said they'd talk about it.

We were a little sad after that but I remember the words of Elder Lynn G. Robbins who visited our mission. He said, "Success is to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." I told my companion, we still have a miracle scheduled for tonight!

So we called a member in our ward to see if she could come out with us, and she didn't answer. We talked about what we could do and we decided to pray for guidance. The second we finished the prayer the phone rang, the member called us back and said she could come out with us!

We didn't have an appointment but we went to visit a new family we've been teaching and ended up getting to have a great lesson with them. She told us after that she'd been feeling like she hadn't been contributing to the work and she'd been praying for an opportunity to help the missionaries. So we were an answer to each others prayers! And we were able to achieve our goal! Then she told us that she'd been praying for Spanish speaking sister missionaries in this area, because she thinks that will be just the thing to touch her husband’s heart. He is Peruvian and was taught by Spanish sisters before he was baptized. He's been less active for 20 years, but she is praying we will be able to touch his heart.

We were so grateful to the Lord for blessing us with these miracles. I wish I had time to tell you about them all. We've had a ton this week! We found 7 new investigators! The amount of teaching we've done this week was quadruple what the elders before us had been doing. They were working really hard and they were great missionaries. The difference is that the Lord wants everyone in the ward to think we're like these incredible all-star missionaries, so he is blessing us with tons of success and miracles and it's making everyone in the ward get super excited about missionary work. They are seeing all the success we are having and are trusting us. That is helping the work roll forth a lot in this area. It's so awesome. We're just being obedient, pleading with the Lord for miracles, and having faith. He is using us to help the ward members do missionary work. It's so exciting.

I love you!

One happy missionary,
Hna. Cannon