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| Sisters Wahlen, Seymour & Hudgens |
Sounds like you had a busy week! Is it scary that
Heidi can drive now? I can only imagine because y'all were scared when I
did. But who knows, maybe Heidi learned from my mistakes and is a better
driver than me. I haven't driven in 5 months, so who knows what kind of
shape I will be in in 13 more months! I really like what you did for the
New Beginnings video, I think you should definitely work on getting it on the
church website. Then I can show all of my investigators and members how
cool my mom is!
I had a super busy awesome week as well. We had a
mission wide fast for new investigators and I can tell the effects. This
was a week of miracles! Wednesday I went on exchanges with the Sister
Training Leader Sister King. That was a crazy day. The night before
we got 3 referrals which was crazy. We haven't gotten a referral in like
two months! They all happened to be in the same place as well so we made
plans to go and contact them. We went to an appointment with an
investigator at 11 and while we were reading 3 Nephi 11 the Spirit was
incredibly strong. Sister King and I were almost crying and our
investigator was balling. It was great!
We then went to contact our referrals. Two of them
weren't home so we went to contact the 3rd, a Vietnamese guy named Bihn Nguyen
(pronounced Ben Winn). We knock on the door and we ask them for Bihn.
He says that 3 Bens living there. We ask for Bihn Nguyen and he says
that they are all named Bihn Nguyen. Sister King and I are at this point
very confused because the guy at the door does not look Vietnamese at all.
So we ask for the Vietnamese one and he says that he isn't home. We
then walk away and knock on a few doors before we turn around and see an Asain
looking guy and think, oh, maybe this is the one we are looking for. We
start talking to him and realize that he is deaf. I happened to have the
paper for communicating with the deaf the ASL elders had given to us and a
notepad so we are writing messages back and forth and he agrees to let us send
the ASL missionaries to him. And this is the great part, his name is also
Bihn Nguyen. We left that whole incident laughing to ourselves because
what are the odds of us finding two guys with that name and none of them being
our referral?
We then walk to contact a former investigator and Sister King finds a dollar, that was pretty cool. We talk to our former investigator and she says she isn't interested but to talk to her secretary and we had a good conversation with her. I also fell down when I went to put on my boots and got a huge bruise on my arm. But Sister King and I both just had to laugh at the sight of me just tipping over. That was a really crazy day.
We had dinner with this family this week that has a little
girl that reminds me so much of Grace. Same age, height, build, and cute
little smile. Made me miss her and just want to run up and hug and squeeze
this little girl. I actually do miss my little Gracie!
Another miracle, we had the best Sunday ever! Two of
our investigators came to church. Their daughter was totally in love
with nursery so they were able to stay for all three hours. Gospel
Principles was amazing, the Spirit filled the whole room. We were talking about
Spiritual gifts and everyone picked two and we shared. Mark and Regina (our
investigators) participated and at the end right before we were going to have
the prayer, Mark asked if anyone felt they had these gifts. Four or five people
shared experiences where they felt they had these gifts and by the end half the
people in the room were crying including Mark and Regina. It was
amazingly great.
So that has been my week, it was great. Even better
the sun came out this week so we weren't freezing like we were last week.
I didn't even have to wear tights and a sweater for like the past three
days!
Love your favorite sister missionary,
