Our investigators are doing well. La is set to be baptized this week, we actually dropped J, and O and his wife are being fellowshipped really well. We have a referral in the works of a less active who is hiding, but his wife just had a baby. We are going to hopefully get the address and go and visit them this week.
I increased my faith this week in accordance with this miracle! So, we got La all prepared for her baptismal interview, and I just had this strong prompting that we needed to teach her about repentance. I was confused, because I was pretty sure she already understood it, but told Sister Fuglistaler what I was feeling. We planned to address it, but then didn't for some reason in our lesson. The next day, we got a text from our member telling us that we needed to refresh Laura on repentance and faith. So, we hurriedly set up an impromptu appointment, and were able to meet with her. She was so concerned about mistakes she had made - mistakes she thought made her not deserve to be baptized. We taught a great lesson on the Atonement, and invited her to go home and pray and read about Jesus Christ, and pray to know that she is forgiven. That night, I prayed so hard for Heavenly Father to answer her, and in the morning, I felt so much peace. The miracle part of this, is that the next day at her interview, she was glowing because she said she had figured it out! I love La, and she is literally a miracle. I love that I get to just be on the backseat too, watching Heavenly Father do His work within her, because I know that it was only through Him and the Atonement that she was able to have her burden lifted.
Funny moment of the week, we ate at Chili's and were with our Rwandan family and their fellow shippers! While there, I was such a clutz and totally whacked my water and it almost spilled all over Brother W! Luckily, he dodged it effectively. It was funny though, because the Rwandan family got very quiet as they saw me spill my water, and they said, it is a saying in Rwanda, that when a woman spills water, it means she needs a husband. I just laughed! Such a funny night :)
(We asked her for any tips on helping us be better missionaries:)
Hmm..let me ponder what advice I could give you...I think there's a really good scripture that I read in my personal study - it's actually an Isaiah scripture - and I actually really love those. BUT, here it is. It's Isaiah speaking about the destruction of Syria, and if it's even possible to stand against God. But, apply it to missionary work...2 Nephi 20:15. "Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood." The footnote explains this verse is talking about if we can survive against God, which obviously we cannot. But another question that popped out to me, is can we survive WITHOUT God. I think if we compare ourselves to the saw, or the ax, and God as the person using those tools, we would be such ineffective tools without God. So, how do we let God use us as the tool? Since He literally can't be here, we need to qualify ourselves more fully for the Holy Ghost, and then have the courage to act on those promptings. THAT is letting God be the work behind missionary work. We need to do all we can to "Get out of the way of the spirit." I think if you talk to any missionaries about missionary work, the sweetest experiences of missionary work, the biggest miracles, are the ones where you feel like you are just on the backseat watching God do His work. Everything about missionary work is God's, we just need to connect to the spirit, and be His hands here - the instrument that He uses physically on Earth. Hope that helps!
Love you!
Love,
Sister Crabb
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