dear electronically connected countrymen (and women),
you know i usually begin e-mails (and journal entries) with beginnings that begin with something like "this week i" or "today we" or something similar. i feel that it's kind of annoying how repetitive the beginnings of my e-mails must be. is there some other way that i could commence mine epistles!?
And it came to pass that missionary work has been very fruitful in this portion of the lords vineyard during these last seven days. we saw miracles and many many many answers to prayers as we worked this last week. let me give a few examples.
when i came to farnborough we didn't really have that many people to teach, and due to the fact that this area is a lot more suburban and less populated than my last area i really felt like it was hard to find new people to teach. so me and Elder Linden talked about it and we decided to start making our prayers more specific, and to start specifically praying to find a family to begin teaching. long story short we have seen our prayers answered time and time again and we've been blessed with more new investigators this week than i have ever found in such a short space of time. more than i've found in some months!
i'll share a few examples.
this last thursday we started our day by praying that we would be led to new people to teach and that we would be led to them or that they would be led to us. later that day after we started teaching a great potential named lorraine we decided to do some finding in the area. we set aside an hour and set a goal to find and teach one new person on that street as well as set up a return appointment with that person. we knocked for the entire hour and had little to no success. then when we turned the corner to start our walk back a lady walked up to us and said she was looking for spiritual guidance and was wondering if we could help. (Whaaaaaaaaaat!) we went to a nearby park and taught her about the restoration. she told us that she has always been a christian but that she has always been confused by the tumult of opinions and war of words (so to speak) and that this confusion is what caused her to come to us seeking guidance. she absolutely loved the restoration and told us that she thinks this is what she has been looking for. we realized after we left that everything we prayed for was granted. someone was led to us and we were able to teach one new person and set up a return appointment.
the next example happened on saturday. we had been praying to find a family to begin teaching for a while now, so as we started to do some finding around the local chapel we said a prayer that we would be able to make at least one specific return appointment from our finding that day. the very first door that we knocked a woman opened the door with a child in her arm and two around her feet. as we began talking to her about gods love for us and her family she was joined by her husband at the doorstep. as we talked and they listened the spirit came so that when we asked if we could return and teach them more they accepted gladly and set up a time with us and gave us their phone number so we could confirm later. as we walked away from that door me and Elder Linden were ecstatic. not only had the lord answered the prayer we had just said but he had also answered the prayer that we've been repeatedly offering since we got to this area.
these aren't the only cases that we've seen this week and i don't really have time to talk about every miracle we see each day but i learned something important from these two instances. first and foremost i gained a firmer testimony that the lord answers prayers. i also learned that sometimes the answers will come quickly and even immediately in some cases. but that sometimes the answer will be after many many many prayers. sometimes after we have then done all that we can do. but he does answer. i love this work and i love being a missionary. god loves us all and is eager to hear and help us and this is at least one reason why he commands us to pray always.
thank you all for your love and support
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