Wow, Wama.......that is super scary....but that is truly a blessing that dad went out to be with her, i will forsure be praying much for her and clearly will join the family in the fast. I have come to gain a true testimony of fasting....truly one of the strongest ways to recieve divine help.
Lots and Lots of things have happened this week, first off in our area we are having TONS of success with working with members in all phases of the work! Its interesting how as we worked more with the members, consequently we had 7 investigators that attended church and are becoming truly converted!:) its funny because in total there were about 15 people there in the sacrament meeting that were parts of incomplete families that we had invited! There is this family we found this thursday that was INSANE!! so i was on exchanges with a Zone Leader and we were heading to an appointment and we had 10 minutes before the lesson and we saw an middleaged man on his patio with his grandson playing and i felt the strong impression to contact him and as we started talking he didnt seem so interested....but we asked if we could enter his patio and talk with him for 10 minutes and he said yes, and the first thing we did was gift him a book of mormon and testify on how it is the book would change his life and he paused and said "i think i have one in my house" and went to look for it and then he came out with a huge picture of his daughter and son getting baptized in our church!! and then as we entered his apartment he had pictures of missionaries and thier familys on the walls that were 20 years old! as we asked him if he had ever been baptized he responded no but that he went to church for years and years with his wife and kids but didnt remember why it is they never were baptized him and his wife.....then all of the sudden his wife "nelly" walked in and as she saw us this light just lit up in her eyes and she then shared with us all her amazing memories of the church and then explained she was never baptized because she wasnt divorced yet with her ex husband at the time...but now is! and all she has to do is get married now and with out us saying anything she looked at "Juan" (Her husband) and said "Hey! we gotta get married and start going back to church so we can be sealed together!, Elders when is the next ward activity and what time does church start on sunday?" we were just in shock.......we told her how the following day there was a Ward Family Home Evening and she said "WE WILL BE THERE!!!" and to our surprise she was there with her son and grandson and aswell sunday!!! It was incredible how the lord truly means when he promised that the "Feild is white all ready to harvest" we are just to thrust in our sickle and it was super cool to see how this family is super prepared and will be able to achieve many things in thier lives:)
I am so grateful for the tendermercies of the lord:)
Love you!
Elder Collins
Photos: August 27th (two year mark) lunch at Applebee's:)
today at our zone activity, the cutest little 2 year old chinese girl and her mother wandered in and i got to play basketball with her as my comp and two other missionaries spoke with the mother:)
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