Hey Family!!!!

Damien’s baptism was amazing!! He just had his interview  for the priesthood! He has the biggest testimony of keeping the Sabbath Day holy. It’s amazing. He loves the ward so much and he says after he leaves the church he gets in the car and prays and thanks heavenly father for letting come to church. I love that kid so much! 

Gregory dropped us. It was sad:( He said he read the Book of Mormon and prayed and said that this isn’t something he wants to do right now. It was a bummer. So we started from scratch again but we saw lots of miracles this week!

The first one was towards the end of the evening and we felt like we needed to be in a certain part of our area and we didn’t know quite why. We went and visited all the members and less actives in that part of town but none of them were home. We knew we needed to be here for a reason so we decided to knock on some doors. We prayed about what street we needed to knock and we felt like we needed to go to this particular street. We knocked and knocked to no avail. Then we saw a house that caught our attention.  We went to it and sitting outside was Erin. Erin is in her 40s, black and has been looking for a church to go to. We said a prayer with her and she loved it and we invited her to be baptized and she said yes. We were so happy!! We set a time to go see her this week! She is so open and excited to learn about the gospel!! She was our miracle. We were so happy that we followed the Spirit that led us to her.

Our other big miracle that happened this week was yesterday. It had been a long day filled with knocking on many doors. We had knocked in two apartment complexes and no one let us in. It got to the point where we were begging Heavenly Father to let us find somebody who needed the Gospel. We wanted to find a family who were looking for peace. We had an hour and a half left in our day and we decided to go to a different apartment complex. We drove by one and we felt that we needed to go there. We went and found a place to park and started knocking. The first 4 were unsuccessful but we still kept going. On the last door we found George. We told him that we were representatives of Jesus Christ and that we were here to share a prayer with him. He accepted and we asked what we could include in the prayer and he said that his dad had died a year ago and that he and his family needed peace. After we prayed, he was in tears. We testified and said that we knew his dad had sent us to him that night. We invited him to be baptized and he said yes right away. He was like yeah so where do we do this baptism?! He said he and his sister have never been baptized! We then asked him how old he was because we thought he might be YSA and he said he was 25 but he was engaged which means he is ours! We were so happy. It was just what we prayed for! We are going to go and see him and his family tomorrow! It was such a blessing. 

On my mission I have gained a strong testimony of specific prayers. Like very specific. When we are specific with the lord and the things we need and we have that vision and faith and trust he will give it to us. The scriptures say knock and it shall be open unto you, ask and ye shall receive. Heavenly Father does listen and answer prayers, it just takes faith and diligence.   I have learned so much about prayer on my mission. It’s amazing. It’s something that I love to do. I can’t wait to go home and just talk to my Heavenly Father and tell him about my day. I have never felt so close to Him. I can honestly say he is my best friend.

Sister Smith is boss and I love her so much! She is so sweet and we get along great!! Today we are going fishing as a district with a member so that will be fun! It’s exciting to change things up a bit lol 

Thanks for that scripture and quote dad!!! I loved it! Super motivational!! :) Thanks for all your love and support!!! :) You guys are the best!! :) Love and miss ya’ll tons!! :)

Briaunna