Tender Mercies

We had so many tender mercies of the Lord this week! We're really striving to do our best in this area and we've been seeing some results now! I'll give you some examples... This guy  has been coming to church and we had a lesson with him and it turns out... he actually knows this is true... but he just doesn't know it yet... he came to church by himself... and is real into everything! He's reading the Book of Mormon and even one of the members invited him over for dinner with us on Wednesday... and he was like "nah I cant... I'm going to Institute" hahaha. So we're going to have dinner with him on Thursday instead... And this other kid is preparing for a mission... he brought his brother who's a nonmember to church! And his brother hasn't been to church in 1.5 years since his brother was baptized! So that was a huge miracle! And this lady  pulled us aside and wanted us to teach this 10 year old who wants to be baptized!! ANDDDDDDDDDDD to top it off..... We had one of the biggest miracles since I've been here.... mabye even in my whole mission.... We were tracting and tracted into this elderly lady and we didn't get to know her a lot while we talked but surprisingly she invited us back!! So we went back just on Saturday and we asked her why she invited us back.... And she told us "I had a dream that I was talking to 2 young men and I yelled at them.... then God told me to talk to them and I yelled at Him to go away.  Ever since that dream I feel like God hasn't been near me or loves me... and when I saw you 2 young men... and I saw your bright smiling faces, I knew that I couldn't turn you away.. and I knew God was trying to speak to me!" Take in mind she told us this as she was crying... and the spirit was just so strong and we assured her that God loves her and this was not a coincidence that we knocked on her door that day! And then she went on to say she had never shared that dream she had with ANYONE... so we asked why share it with us... and she said again crying "Because you two are so pure.... you're the truth!!!" ....... o.O ..... :O ..... We were seriously so shocked..... when we got into the car after the lesson we just drove back to our flat just smiling and didn't even say a word to each other.... It was..... ridonkulous...! This increased my testimony of Doctrine and Covenants 123, the last verse..... It says "... let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God and for his arm to be revealed".... If we do all we can... which isn't much... God will grant us miracles.... just because we are trying, means everything to him.
I went on another trade-off with my zone leader Elder A... my same zone leader from the city... so it was awesome! We went from going on trade-offs in the city teaching in this building and street contacting to tracting and teaching in people's homes! We taught this awesome guy (we found him a couple weeks ago) and he's so good! He'll get baptized... he told me "You have no idea what you've done to me 'all'! <-- (he cant pronounce my name right so he calls me "all") Ever since you've knocked on my door, I've been searching high and low in my garage for that Book of Mormon I owned! I've been dying to read it!!" And so we gave him one and asked if he would read it and hahahaha he looks at us stern -_- "Are you joking!? Will I read it?! you think I wouldn't read it?!" then he goes on sarcastically - "Yeah just searched my garage for 2 weeks... YES I'LL READ IT!" Hahaha, he's so cool! 
 So this week.... yup... it was insane!