Family!! :)

So, President told me he wanted to extend my mission by a month or so and I told him  if that’s what God wants. So is it okay if I come home in November?........ hehehe just kidding ;)))  I love you all so much you are the best!! I couldn’t stay away from you all too long! :)

So this week we had to drop Bianca and her family. We were super sad but they stopped answering our calls and the door but we know that one day they will be ready. Just planting seeds! This week we were super blessed to find Damian. Let me tell you this kid besides Julia is the most elect person I have taught. Sister King and I prayed specifically before knocking on doors to find a person who would accept everything and who was in their 20s or so and had a child. As we were knocking, we weren’t having much success but as were passing this house we saw a young black man (actually Jamaican) sitting on the top of his car. He looked really sad and so we asked if we could give him a card.He came over and we said we are also in the area sharing prayers with people can we share a prayer with you? And he said yes! He said you guys came at the right time! I was super frustrated. I have been going through a hard time trying to get custody of  my 16th month girl because the mom is crazy and it’s been hard because I want to be able to raise my girl up right and have her be in a loving home. He went on just telling us his life story. He said I know God is real because you could have seen or helped with anyone else on this street but he sent you to me and I know you were sent here for a reason. It was a very powerful testimony. We then asked him how old he was and he said he was 23. We then testified that we were sent here by God and that we prayed specifically to find him! We said a prayer with him and he cried during the whole thing. He felt the spirit so strong. He is the most humble and charitable person I have ever met! He doesn’t have the best living conditions by any means. It’s really sad but he is super happy all the time. He wouldn't hurt a fly! He is just so Christ-like and puts others first! It’s amazing. After the prayer we invited them to be baptized and he said yes and that he has been thinking about being baptized. We were so happy! Ever since Tuesday we have been seeing him. We taught him the restoration and he loved it and just understood everything! He reads the Book of Mormon and loves it. He can’t read very well or understand it, but he reads it because he knows its right. During the lesson we talk about it and go over it. He is so faithful. We also taught him the plan of salvation and focused in on how families can be together forever. Because he loves his daughter and wants to be with her for eternity. He loved it so much and said he wants to go to the celestial kingdom so bad. After that lesson we asked him to say the closing prayer and in the prayer he said "please bless that I can get baptized on May 30th and that my daughter can be there even though she won’t understand it I still want her there. I am so grateful that Sister King and Sister Heacock found me, they are a blessing, they have helped me so much...." It was so the most humble loving prayer ever. He talked to Heavenly Father like he was right there and that he was his best friend. The spirit was so strong it made me and Sister King cry. On Sunday he wasn’t able to come to church because he couldn’t get it off and he said he tried real hard but his boss wouldn’t let him. He said that all throughout work he kept thinking I needed to be at church, I need to be at church. He said that today he is going to ask for Sunday off right away. He said he started looking for another job so he can have Sundays off. He said he just felt so bad he couldn’t be at church. So we had to move his baptismal date to June 6^th. He is super excited and so are we! It is going to be amazing. We just have so much love for him. I wish you could meet him! He is so amazing. Specific prayers are real!

Finding him reminded me of this poem "In heaven we were the best of friends. We did everything together. One day a grand council was called in heaven. We knew it was an important event. Everyone was there, Moses Noah and Jesus Christ. Father presented a plan and we voted for Christ to be our savior. After the council we ran to get in line to receive our life package. In the bustle we got separated. I received my package and ran to you. You were sitting under a tree. We opened our packages, mine said I would be born at a time when the gospel was restored on the earth. It said that I would have good parents and the fullness of the gospel in my home. I jumped for joy and we hugged each other. You were so happy for me. Then you read yours. I saw the tears in your eyes and I asked what’s wrong? You said that you would also be born when the gospel was restored but you would be born in a different place and the gospel would not be in your home. You looked at me straight in the eye and said friend find me, no matter what it takes or the trials you have to endure, find me! And bring me the gospel!" 

Some other exciting events this week, While we were going to knock the other day we parked in the grass and when I opened the door there was a storm drain right there. When I got up, the phone that I forgot was on my lap, fell onto the ground. As I went to go pick it up it slipped right into the storm drain and went "ker plop" Yup right into the water filled drain. I went white. Sister King was on the other side of the car and I went around to her and said "ummm Sister...." and she was like "what?!" "Ummm the phone is in the storm drain" and she was like "shut up!!!" We both burst out laughing, like roll on the floor laughing, because it was just so ridiculous and that it would happen to us. But we had to get the phone out so we looked into the storm drain and the phone was lit up so we got palm fronds and sticks and string and tried to make a shirt shovel to get the phone out. It was 7 when we started and we had to work fast because it would soon be getting dark. Well after a half hour we weren’t having any luck and it was starting to become dusk so we decided we needed to ask someone for help. Right across the street was a nice man who offered right away to help us. He lifted up the storm drain and started racking things out and getting all the water out and finally an hour later at 8 we found the phone and all the pieces. Yay!! But after being in rice overnight our little phone didn’t survive and we got a new one. Yay for adventures!! It was a great time.

Thank you so much for the vitamins! They are great! Huge but great! :) Also glad you got the pic from Sister Blake a family in our ward who is amazing. She is just so sweet! She doesn’t have anyone on a mission right now. She has two teenage daughters who are awesome but she always makes sure that we have what we need and it was so cute she started getting emotional as she took the pic of us. It was so cute we love her so much! 

So about Sister Boga that amazing less active! We went and saw her and her husband last night and she made flan cheesecake! It was good! Not as good as dads of course. Dad should try and make one!! It would be amazing! She is always making sure we are doing well and that we are fed. She feeds us so much! We found out her husband is super into 80s music so we bonded over that. It was so much fun. They have a concert to go every month of the year. It’s funny. 

This week in personal study, I was reading in D & C section 138:55-56 and I love it because it talks about how we have already been taught how to be missionaries! We were taught in heaven by the greatest teacher, our loving Heavenly Father. We just have to put off the natural man and trust in him that he taught us well enough and trust ourselves as well because we know this! We know how to teach! We were pre-ordained!  Just always remember our potential. It’s super powerful and just boosted me up!

I hope you have a great week!!! I love and miss you all!!! xoxoxoxoxo :)))))  

Briaunna