Hi! Wow! This week went by so fast! I can't believe it's Monday again. The time here in Santa Maria goes so fast, and I don't like it! I feel like I don't have enough time to do everything that I want to do and to enjoy every moment. But during the day, during lessons or service projects, or even while we are driving in the car with Hermana Jeronimo I stop to think abou how blessed I am to have such precious, and more than anything, sacred moments with the children of our Heavenly Father.
Okay, here goes the miracle of the week. In our area we have some investigators that neither I nor Hermana Jermonimo know, but file says that they are a referral from the church office. Their daughter in Alabama asked that the missionaries go and visit her parents. So, one day we decided to give them a call. The wife answers and our conversation goes something like this, "Hi Sister, we are the new missionaries, Hermana Cuevas and Hermana Jeronimo. How are you?" "Oh, sorry sisters, but I can't talk, I am mourning my husband." "Okay!" We didn't know what to say! So we just told her that we were praying for her and for her family and if they needed anything they could call us. And that was it. Then, then next day we had two missed calls from that number and a voice message. The message said, "Hi missionaries, this is Maria, you don't know me. I am the daughter of Irma. You talked to her yesterday. I just want to know if you can call me when you get a chance." Okay, so we called her and she said that she was the daughter from Alabama! The file said that she was a member, but she later told us that she has not yet been baptized. But she told us that she came to visit because her father has passed away. She said that the first thing she saw when she got to the house was a Book of Mormon on the dinner table with our phone number. She called to thank the missionaries that had come to visit her family. Then she asked if we could meet the next day. So we met at In-and-Out with her and her two younger sisters. She said, "missionaries, I want to ask you to teach my sisters the message of the restoration." Then we taught them. Then she told us, "okay, now sisters, can you teach us what we need to do to live with our Heavenly Father again and to have eternal life?" So then we taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ. All through all of this we also taught them the Plan of Salvation.
Wow. It was such a cool experience! Maria told us that she is going back to Alabama in two week but that we wants us to continue to teach her family. We will let her know how it goes :) I know that our Father has a perfect plan and that we can all be instruments in His hands.
I leave you with a scripture and with an invitation from a prophet from the Book of Mormon and with in invitation that I give to you and everyone that I love.
25 And it came to pass that I began to be old; and, having no seed, and knowing king Benjamin to be a just man before the Lord, wherefore, I shall deliver up these platesunto him, exhorting all men to come unto God, the Holy One of Israel, and believe in prophesying, and in revelations, and in the ministering of angels, and in the gift of speaking with tongues, and in the gift of interpreting languages, and in all things which are good; for there is nothing which is good save it comes from the Lord: and that which is evil cometh from the devil.
26 And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye shouldcome unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as anoffering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved." Omni 1:25-26
Hope you have a great week and can see the hand of God in your lives :)
- Hermana Cuevas Da
Silva ♥
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