Miracle 2: The power of repentance (Luke 15:7)
Miracle 3: Baptism! What a powerful experience! Madeline got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday. It was wonderful! After the baptism, everyone was saying congratulations to her and she started crying. I went up to her to ask her why she was crying and she said "Because I am happy". My heart melted. It was the cutest and most innocent response ever.
Miracle 4: We had an investigator, Malia, that came to the baptism. Malia has met with sister missionaries in the past that she still keeps in contact with and she was SO excited when she met us. She has a lot of love for us. I invited her to the baptism because I was giving a talk and she said in the past if we ever had to give a talk she would come to support us. She wasn't really progessing, though. At the baptism, I was standing on one side of the font with Malia and my companion was on the other side. When Madeline came up out of the water Malia turned to me and said "if I want to convert, what do I have to do?" Woah! Okay... So we talked and she also had a chance to talk to the bishop and receive a priesthood blessing. Her obstacle right now is that she has to get married. I'm excited to see what will happen.
Miracle 5: There are A LOT of inactives and we have been working with a few families and a lot of them came to church on Sunday!
Miracle 6: The power of prayer. We engaged one of our less actives, Edna, to pray and ask Heavenly Father what she needs to do with her life right now. She actually did it! And she got an answer! She said she knows she has to start reading the Book of Mormon again. We've been reading a lot with her and you can just see that she is becoming happier and happier and the light is rekindling in her eyes. She is one of the inactives that came to church and she just had a big smile on her face. We saw her later that night and asked her what she thought and she said "I loved it because when I'm there I forget about all the worries at home".
There are so many more I could tell you, but I think you get the point. Heavenly Father is really watching over us and all of His children.
Funny story: We were at the Thomas Family's house having our lesson under a mango tree. He was telling us a story about this man who didn't agree with some aspects of God's creation like why there is a big tree with a strong trunk and long, strong branches but all it grew was little fruit. In his mind there should be great big watermelon or pumpkin growing from these strong branches and not from a vine on the ground. One day he was sleeping under this tree and one of the tiny fruits fell right on the middle of his forehead. He woke up, looked over at the little fruit and thought "Okay, maybe God was right". Hahah the funny part, though, is right as Kila said the fruit fell, a mango fell and hit the table and scared us all! Kila said "see, good thing it wasn't a watermelon or pumpkin". Heavenly Father has a little sense of humor, too (:
Lots of love for you all! I hope you enjoyed your thanksgiving! There is LOTS to be thankful for!
Sincerely,
Soeur Stahura
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