Showing posts with label November 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November 1. Show all posts

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Miracles Happen

Hey again Papa:)
You get 2 emails because you sent me 2. haha but this one you can send to the family so that everyone will get off my back! jk, i love you all!
oh, but first of all, to answer your question... I´m really not unorganized at all. My concerns had more to do with having to be in charge. i don´t like responsibility. but it´s been ok! God is helping me:)
and speaking of God, I have a couple stories to tell this week! 2 miracles
firstly... we were walking down the street one day and a lady yelled at us from her window on the other side of the street, so we crossed, and the crazy woman is trying to ask us a question, but there is like mach 5 wind outside (not even joking) and we can´t hear a word she´s saying. seriously, it was miracle enough that we heard her call to us from the street.
so she yells, ¨i´ll come down!¨ and we´re like... please do. so she comes down and says, ¨i was just wondering if there´s a mormon college around here¨ and we said, ¨nope. but can we come in?¨ and she said, ¨sure¨ and told us how her daughter had gone to the church before and they talked to the missionaries, but in the north. they just moved here from Cordoba. Anyway, They´re really great!!! and it the mom, grandma, and granddaughter that live there. the granddaughter is the one who went to the church before. so we set up an apt. to go back in this next week. miracle number 1
miracle 2... Gustavo. He was a reference from the elders, a street contact. we were trying to find his house yesterday but forgot the map in the pension and so we decided to go visit some other people, and then on the way back ( oh, we were with a member, Gabriel) so we were talking to him and just happened upon the street we were looking for before! gustavo´s street. so we found his house and he let us in, and told us he had talked to an elder, he couldn´t even remember his name, but that it changed everything. he went out that day looking for a fight. and the elder came up to him and said, ¨how´s it going brother?¨ and he said he didn´t know why he didn´t yell at him or insult him even though he was really angry, but he just answered, ¨not good¨ and the elder told him he should go to church. Gustavo promised him that he would and they parted ways.
It was a five minute conversation, but for the rest of the day, good things were happening to him. He had left his house that day, ready to kill someone (literally, a guy owed him money and he went to get it from him. he said, ¨i had my knife in my pocket, and if he didn´t pay me, I was going to kill him¨) but after he talked to this missionary, he hid his knife somewhere on the side of the road, and picked it up on the way back from talking to the man who owed him.
He told us, ¨I just want to know the path. I´ve never gone to church in my life but i want to go, because i promised that elder! and i don´t know if your path is the path that God wants me on, but I´m willing to follow it. I´ll do whatever i need to.¨
yep... that´s miracle number 2. I was like.... ¨umm... ok. We´ll teach you¨ :)
so, that´s that! Those people who say that God doesn´t do miracles anymore are absolutely mistaken! I was always ok with just having little miracles, but i´m not gonna complain if He lets me see big ones too ;)
Anyways, Times up! but i love you all bunches!!!! Be Good!!!
Love,
Hermana Jones