Lyndel!
Its fun to hear that you are having so many vacation
days. I'm glad you're forcing yourself to take them. I too am waaaaay
stoked for Christmas. I keep looking at my calendar on the wall to see
how many days I have left until I get to talk to you all. Your Johnny
Lingo lesson sounds good :) Don't worry, you'll have a lot more
opportunities to teach people about their self worth, especially the
girls. Sending things to the mission home is better seeing as I have
been having a lot harder time getting packages. I will get it after Christmas though because we are having a meeting on the 12th with Elder
Richards and that's when we will all get our Christmas packages. I'm not
sure when the next meeting will be but sometime in January. If you send
it right to me you may have more of a chance getting it to me in time
but also the risk of it getting stuck somewhere. Its up to you, but I
would recommend the mission home.
This week was amazing! So probably the most amazing experience of my
mission happened this week that just showed me that I really have been
an instrument in the hands of the lord and that he really does answer
prayers. So on November 13th sister Dean and I were dooring and the last
door of the night we met XXXXXXX. She immediately invited us in and we
got to know her. She is super friendly, probably the funniest German I
know, and very humble. She shared with us that she didn't know why she
was here, so what her purpose on earth was. We shared with her a brief
introduction of the plan of salvation and left her with the pamphlet.
She was terrified that the world is going to end on the 21st of December
so we told her we would come back the 22nd. She doesn't like fest
(planned) appointments at all so we were careful not to push our luck that's why we
said we would come back December 22nd. Well I couldn't stop thinking
about her and have just been really excited to be able to go back to
her. On the 26th, so last Monday. All our set appointments fell out that
normally don't so Sister Dean turned to me and asked me what we should
do. I thought about the area for a second and then said we should stop
by XXXXXXX's so we did. We klingeled and she answered the door and again
told u s immediately that we should come inside. She said she had to
tell us something as soon as we sat down. The evening of the 12th, XXXXXXX prayed for the first time in a long time to God that he would
help her know what her plan is in life. She told him that she felt as if
sh had no plan or direction, and she asked him to send his angels to
her to help her find her way. Well we showed up the next day and talked
to her about ''the plan'' and she told us she thought her eyes were
playing tricks on her when she read the word ''plan'' on the front of
the brochure. We left and she said she read the pamphlet EVERYDAY since
we left. She said everything she read was things that she just knew to
be right and she had thought her whole life but other people had said
she was crazy and had devil ideas. Well she loved the brochure so much
she let her mom read it but her mom never returned it to her. She knew
her mom would never give it back so the evening of the 25th she prayed
again that God would send us to her again to give her another plan of
salvation pamphlet and that if we were the right church to send us. And
when her door bell went off the evening of the 26th and she opened it to
see us standing there in the rain she about had a heart attack. She
said it was too crazy and couldn't be a coincidence and that the Lord
really does listen to her prayers. She told us that she had to have
every book that we have and she has to listen to what we have to say.
She is so ready for the Gospel. I had recently been feeling down because
my spiritual promptings come differently than other missionaries and so
sometimes it just makes me feel like either I'm not paying attention or
I'm just not receiving any. Well I prayed the night of the 25th that I
could really be an instrument in the hands of the Lord. That he would
show me that I really am doing good and helping and the fact that XXXXXXX prayed us there twice was the biggest answer to my prayers that I
do follow the promptings the Lord sends me and I really have been an
instrument in the hands of the Lord to bring perhaps one soul to
repentance. And let me tell you, it has been my greatest joy. I shared
the story with President Kosak and he had tears in his eyes and said I
had to send it to him today so he could send it to the area presidency.
We met with XXXXXXX again on Saturday morning because she had to cancel
our friday evening appointment so she invited us over for Breakfast
because she just couldn't wait to meet with us.
People do get way cranky in the winter but when we've got smiles on
our faces it helps. Bruder XXXXXX has his baptismal interview on Thursday
and his baptism on Sunday! He picked out who was going to baptize him
yesterday. He is so awesome and is going to do this. He is so excited to
take this step in his life, a little nervous but he knows its right and
that the church is true!
I hope you're doing well. I miss you and love you bunches!
-Ariel Nell
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