Obedience Brings Blessings, but Exact Obedience Brings Miracles 1.23.17

Hello!!

This week just flew by! So much great stuff has been happening!!

Monday: We went to Five Guys for lunch and there was a member there with his family. He introduced himself to us and said that we were doing great work. And HE PAID FOR OUR MEAL. It was the sweetest thing ever!! Made my day :) That night we had another awesome lesson with B--he's a rockstar.

Tuesday: Okay so at night we had an appointment with a potential investigator (S) that lives in an apartment complex--there are two doors on the second level and two doors on the first level. He lives on the first floor and another potential investigator (J), who has been sick for a month (poor lady), lives on the second floor. When we were going to S's for our appointment and accidentally knocked on J's door (I almost asked if S was there- luckily I didnt lol). But, she said she was feeling a lot better and to come back in a few days! MIRACLE! 

We also met other super awesome people.

Wednesday: Zone Conference! So fun! We had really good training about the Doctrine of Christ and we talked more about our goal of 340 baptisms in the New York Utica Mission in the year 2017. The theme was that we are soldiers in the Lord's army. It was really cool!

And we talked about being urgent missionaries and it was a really humbling experience. I've always tried my best to be very obedient and lately I've been getting a little laxed with a couple things. So I recommitted myself (and Sister R too) to being EXACTLY obedient and not even being a minute late and IT WAS AMAZING. We saw so many miracles because of it! The Lord really is blessing us!!

We taught a lady named C that night and she is super sweet and had so many great questions. She always asks us what we want her to read I love it. 

Thursday: A very productive and crazy day! We tracted in the morning and it was so nice out. Spring is coming! Then we went to the church for interviews with President, then weekly planning, then taught one of our recent converts. We were right about to head home for dinner and then we get a text...
Okay so a little back story. We texted our investigator M (coolest guy) on Wednesday to see if tonight would work to see him and we didn't hear from him so weren't expecting to see him until next week but then around 4:45pm we get this text. "Hey Sisters! Tonight works if it still works for you!" M lives by himself so we need another female member with us when we go. So we start calling everyone we know! It was a little stressful because I was driving and Sister R was calling and no one could make it so last minute (our lesson was at 8pm). So I said a prayer in my head saying "Heavenly Father, we really need Thy help in finding a member who can go with us to M's lesson tonight." And BAM! The next person we call says they would love to come and will meet us there! I LOVE THE POWER OF PRAYER. I was so excited oh my goodness. The lesson went super well too. The Spirit is so strong in lessons with M. He is amazing.

Friday: We taught a girl who lives right next to us (we met her the other day when she was walking her cat--it was dark and I swear it looked like a dog from a distance so I said "cute dog!" and she responded "it's a cat" and we all started laughing haha)  Anyway, we had a really good lesson with her and answered a lot of questions she had. She wants to go hiking with us which would be so fun if it actually happens. She's 33 and married with no kids. 

Saturday: We taught J (the one we talked to on Tuesday) and it went really well! She had a lot of really good questions and asked us about our lifestyle and she's already willing to give up coffee! She's so cool! She definitely has a lot of potential. We met a girl tracting who speaks Spanish who seems really interested and we gave her a Spanish Book of Mormon and are super excited to teach her more this week with the help of some of the members who speak Spanish.

Sunday: We stopped by a part member family's house and they let us in and we shared a scripture and set up another appointment. We are really excited about them. They are a cute Philippino family.

This week we were able to pick up new investigators and find a lot of solid potentials! It was so much fun!! I love missionary work!!

Sister Horne

 It's hard to tell, but WE WERE DRENCHED! We had dinner at a member's home that lives about    2 miles from us so we decided to walk to save miles. It was raining the whole time haha but was fun.

 CAKE IN A MUG. Sister R told me about it and it's about one of the greatest things ever! :)

Sister Anderson. She was trained by Sister Case right before I was. Love HER!