The Lord's Timing

4 Mar

When I was with Elder K. Week 3 of Transfer 1 back in the City... we got this referral named Anfon.. so each night when we set goals and made plans to contact and teach referrals... We put on our To-Do List.. "Anfon"... Each time we tried to go it always got pushed back... because he was about 20min walking distance from the City so we didn't have time to go..And finally.. Week 3 of Transfer number 2 with Elder G... We had been preparing for Zone Training Meeting the whole day and still hadn't finished. But we felt just in the middle of it... "Hey... Let's go see Anfon!..." So we both agreed the Spirit was telling us we needed to go. We booked it across the City only having 1 hour to go see him and come back before our MCM... But as always.. on the way we got held up talking to people and giving out English Class Flyers.. But we get there about 5:40.. Super late!... And we found that the address was this place called 'Campus Lodge'.. so it looked like a phony.. So we were bummed but we were like.. "well we came all this way.. let's just go knock on it.. "... Then right as we were about to.. this guy walked out and was leaving then took a second look back and said.. "Wait!... Are you Mormons?"... We were like... "Why yes.... yes we are =D..." Then he introduced himself as a Less active member from Taiwan!... And he said.. "I'm the manager of this place... students lease a room here for a year when they study... I have 22 Taiwanese students who want to learn... perhaps we could organize a time we can have lunch and you can meet them all!".... We were dumbfounded... "Why yes..... yes we should have lunch with all of them ^_^"... Then I asked... Well we actually came here because there was someone named Anfon that wanted to learn here...

He asked the receptionist... "Do you know an Anfon here?"... She replied.. 'There's no one with such name that lives here'... Then he just brushed it off and went off on his way after we exchanged numbers....

We realized how PERFECT and amazing the Lord's timing is!!... If we had not followed every prompting to talk with certain people for certain amounts of time... for example.. I had 1 distinct prompting whilst talking to this semi-interested girl from China.. "Wrap it up.. Perishing souls elsewhere are waiting for you".... So I did and we got that just at the right time!... If we got there any later... The manager would not have been there... and we would've asked the recpetionist for Anfon... and she would've kindly said he doesn't live here... and we would've left... having missed the potential blessings he had in store for us.... And that's what it's like with any thing in life... you can choose to slack off on your mission... you can choose to not fulfill your callings to your fullest ablilities.. you can choose not to follow promptings... but just know... you are missing out on far greater blessings Heavenly Father has hand made just for you!.. 

Miracles are every where... They surround us.. But are we aware enough to capture them?...

10 Mar

 I have an exciting miracle for this week! So if you recall a month or 2 ago... my email about 'desire' and how when I was on trade-offs.. My District Leader and I found 2 New Investigators in the space of like 30-40mins... One of them... her name was K from China... she was progressing really well.. they were going to set a baptismal date with her until she said.. "I'm actually going back to China in 1 week for a month to get married.. I don't think my husband will approve so I probably won't join"... So that was pretty sad... but when she got back this past week.. she called up the Elders and said.. "Hey, I'm back!... And I want to join the church!".... #miracles.

I had the greatest joy though when the Elder who was teaching her came up to me and was like "Ohhh my goodnessss! I'm so happy!!! This is the best day everrrr!"... To be able to give that joy to a fellow missionary just by simply finding someone for them to teach... was priceless...

On top of that.. and just as great as baptisms.... is RE-ACTIVATION!... For rescuing someone who has already made those convenants is sooooooo amazing!... We were able to have 3 amazing people back at church this past Sunday!... Working with Less Actives is so great when you can have them recount their spiritual experiences... The Spirit immediately floods the room when it happens. But yeshhh there's a few miracles for you!

17 Mar

As for this week!!... WOOOO!!! It was an absolutely incredible week... BEAST... or as the spanish say... bestio.... We will be having 2 miracles this weekend.... or another word they call it... baptisms. C is from China.. he had been smoking for 8 years and has quit cold turkey with the 15 step program!.. He's truly been a miracle though.. The only reason he met with us in the first place is because he had a super powerful experience with prayer in China... and he planned to be baptized in a church there but his preacher moved so he had no one... then when he moved here to Sydney.... he met us :)

And on top of all... Tis transfer week... so even with the feeling that I have (of being transferred)... What better way to leave than with witnessing a child of God entering with Him in a promise... It is truly humbling... and a miracle... to be apart of the greatest work in the world... The gathering of Israel... I can truly feel strength whenever I kneel down at night to pray.. that I am apart of an +85,000 full time missionary force.. That not only you and the family... but people every where are praying for missionaries... So I thank you for continually having faith that I am able to do this with His help.. and with yours.

 

Mar 25

Sooooo the shock of the week! My companion got transferred!! o.O. So it's officially stamped I'll be dying in the City for my last 12 weeks! And what's cool as, my companion Elder W, He's been out 7 months but he's gun as!! He's from Texas, speaks spanish.. assigned Korean speaking.. and he went to Harvard majoring in statistics and economics... to say the least I love him..he's beast!.... And shock #2 of the week... FAIR DINKUM KATE IS IN MY WARD!!! Yes.. Kate Ball.. I've already seen her heaps! We went out to dinner last night.. it is like the weirdest/coolest thing ever!.. She's such an amazing returned missionary though.. I took her to Spanish class and she was going to town, teaching this Colombian investigator.. She's already fellowshipping and cleaning up the chapel.. every thing you wish a member could do and she's doing it.. #cousins. So yeah it's going to be exciting.. She's gonna be here when I give my last talk in Sacrament and all... I'll tell her to record it.. 

Another miracle.. Our investigator C got baptized!! WOOO! But for now every thing is going awesome! New Transfer = New Start... so I'm going to be applying every thing that I have learned and teach it to my new companion before I get transferred to NZ.