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estan. so the question mark button doesn't work on this key board along
with various other buttons so yeah... anyhow, this week was awesome for
us! but if you looked at our numbers you wouldn't think so. our numbers
tell the story of how every single appointment fell through, how no one
wanted to hear the message, and how a lot of walking took place without
anything happening. so yes, that did happen, and stunk and was
hard.......but, then there's oscar!!!! so monday night we
had it in our plans to teach him lesson 2. but, that just didn't feel
right. so we studied it out the next morning and realized that he needed
a lesson that just focused on christ and the book of mormon. so we had
our awesome lesson planned. so we begin our day and of course we are
out of gas so it's potatoes in the microwave, that's not too horrible,
then we walk outside and its pouring!!!! so like i said, every lesson
was canceled, no one listened, and we were soaking wet!!! we walked
through the muck and junk of yukyty for an hour and a half. almost lost
one of my boots in the mud along the way. :/ and the whole time i kept
thinking we need to call hermana vanessa and make sure she is still
coming to the lesson with oscar. so i tell hermana arguetta and she says
okay we will at like five thirty. so five thirty
rolls around and i remind her about the call. so we make the call and
of course she is in a whole different country....... literally!!!!
Argentina!!! well hermana arguetta just loses it and can't stop crying,
so we head to the church kneel down and i said the prayer and i told
heavenly father that we needed a mujer and we know that no one can come,
but we need help. so we get up and talk about who can possibly come.
the bishops wife kept coming to mind, but we kept discussing and decided
on a different hermana. we called and she couldn't. neither could the
next 3 hermanas. so we called the bishops wife, and what do you know,
she could come!!! we only had 15 min. to get to oscars so we ran to
hermana sanabria and we head to oscars. we had the best lesson with him!
afterwards hermana sanabria tells us how her day just worked out
perfectly and she was literally just done getting ready when we called
and she was able leave immediately, which never happens she said. so
she was literally prepared the whole day by heavenly father. the spirit
guided us the whole day and our prayers were answered. :) oscar came to
church yesterday and loved it! he tells us every time how grateful he is
for us and the gospel. when he makes a commitment, he says it's his
responsibility and he keeps it! his date for the 29th of nov is
still on!!! we are so so excited but have a lot of work to still do.
he literally looks different now than the first time we saw him. the
gospel changes people completely! always follow the smallest promptings
of the spirit because the biggest blessings result! what if we hadn't
turned back to talk to oscar that first time and kept walking. i see
little and big miracles everyday out here!!! this experience of serving a
mission is one i would never trade!!! there's a man named juan who had
a stroke 12 years ago and can't hardly speak and move his right arm and
leg. he's such a sweet old man and absolutely loves me. he waves to me
about a hundred times during the lesson to make sure we haven't
forgotten him! this last time him and anjelica reminded me of grandma
and grandpa smoot when grandpa says something and grandma kicks him or
scolds him... hahaha :) it was the same, after we sang a hymn and he let
us know what a ´´great´´ singer i was and how he loves listening to me
sing... and anjelica kept stopping him and saying they both sing so well
dont they.. you both sing so well... right juan.. BOTH of them!! hahaha
:) he refused to agree. abuelos are the best here! well i love you and
miss you all so much! always keep the faith!
always love,
Hermana McDougal
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