Jan 11, 2010

This week was soo awesome! I feel like I say that every week, and every week really is great, but this week so many amazing things happened! We were able to see 14 less actives and teach a total of 31 lessons. one of the less actives is a husband of a super active lady and they have to little kids. He's agnostic now and he's only been inactive about a year but it has been heartbreaking to his wife. we were able to talk with him a lot about his mission and by the end of it he had tears in his eyes and told us he needs to rethink his decision of not going to church and he realized how many amazing experiences he had on his mission. The PEC is working with us to give the priests a lesson on missions and sharing experiences of peoples' lives changing and we are asking him to come and share some experiences from his mission so hopefully he will come. Step by step everything turns out okay. And we had the most amazing tracting experience! We have been too busy to tract for the last 2 months or so and this past friday we had visited everyone on our list or at least tried to so we had an hour before our next appointment and even though it was freezing(the record low day!) we knew we needed to go tracting so we asked Sister Mullins to pray about a street and we gave her a map. She told us Woodlands was coming to her mind and I haven't ever heard of that street so I asked her where on the map it was and she said she didn't see it it just came to her mind. Well I looked up the street names and there was a Woodlands Dr. Woodlands Ridge or Woodland Hills Ct and the First one was in Bryan so it wasn't even in our area so I said are you sure it's not Woodland hills or ridge? So she prayed about it again and she said nope Woodlands Dr. Since we teach the Chinese, it's our area if the investigator is Chinese so we just went over there and figured this person we were suppose to find was Chinese. Well to make a long story somewhat short we got there and knocked the first door, no one was home. Second door, he wasn't interested. Third door Sister Mullins decided to knock it. (It was her first door to knock on) She said we're here to share with you the Book of Mormon and the lady said Oh Come in! It's so cold out there! So we taught her the restoration and answered questions and the spirit was soo strong throughout it. At the end she told us her husband wasn't a believer and that they had just moved from Washington State where he was a professor and now he's a professor at A&M in Geology. And then like a ton of bricks it hit me and I knew who they were! I said oh my! Do you know Lacey and Tracey Wulf? and she said "yes Tracy is one of my husband's grad students!" The wulf's are in our ward and a few months ago we had dinner with them and we asked them if they had anyone we could visit and they told us about his professor and their family and then at the end decided it wasn't time yet. So I knew all about her family and I know the Lord wanted them to be taught so when they didn't give them as a referral he figured out another way for us to find them. And it taught me an absolutely huge lesson that the Lord is so mindful of us. We are doing HIS work and he is always going to be there to tell us where to go and what to do, but so often we don't listen for that answer. Fortunately Sister Mullins did and the result was wonderful. So that's a couple awesome stories! And one door we knocked on the lady only knew Spanish and Sister Ireland and I did a door approach and conversation is Spanish! We both know a little spanish and we've been practicing lately, but the words just flew out of our mouth faster than I knew them. Of course with the help of the Lord all things are possible. This week was truly amazing and I'm so grateful for my calling. It's freezing here in Texas... Friday we actually had a record low day...ever! Like it had never been that cold in Houston before. Hopefully it will warm up soon! Love you guys!
Sister Davis