We ding dong ditch thank you cards. Though we don't ring the doorbell. It's fun.
So the last 36 hours have been crazy. On Saturday night, we got transfer calls, and we didn't hear anything about us, so Sister Grammer and I thought we were staying. Well, we get a call at about 10:20am yesterday saying that there had been a mistake and we are getting doubled out. So we're both leaving. So we've been saying goodbyes and packing (I hate packing) and trying to get everything in order. I'm going to be going to Chowchilla, which is way up north (so I will be doing so much driving tomorrow) and I'm getting doubled in, so my new companion and I will both be coming in new. So we know nothing. That'll be exciting. But I hear that she's super nice, and that Chowchilla loves their sisters (though they haven't had any in a while. We're opening the area to sisters again.) So you'll hear all about Chowchilla next week!
We have had so many miracles this week. I don't have time to record all of them, but I'll record as many as I can.
So on Monday, we stopped by this apartment complex with a ton of potential investigators in it. We were talking to someone, and someone drove up and called us Sisters. So we talk to them and find out that they are members who used to live in Tulare, and that they're just visiting. It turns out that their less active son lives in one of the homes we've tracted before, and we even helped his girlfriend bring her groceries in once! Apparently we also gave her son a picture of Jesus, which made a huge impact on them. We had no idea that their son lived there, but God did. I think it was a huge miracle for the parents that even though we didn't know he was there, the Lord did and He took care of him.
On Tuesday, we visited Diana. It was amazing. She is so eager to make changes in her life and to bring her family closer to God. We asked if we could visit 2-3 times a week, and she said that was exactly what she needed to actually go through with changing her life! And she wants to involve her husband!
Then we got a call from someone in the Colorado Denver Mission presidency telling us that a less active and his wife were moving into our ward, and that they want ministers and that the wife, who is not a member, is so prepared to receive the blessings of the gospel. Then we stopped by them a couple days later, and it was a gated apartments and the gate was open (huge miracle. That never happens!) and then it took a us a while to find the apartment and parking. So we are walking over there and we start talking to this lady who is walking the same direction. We then meet her husband, who asks if we've come to meet them, and we had totally just happened to start talking to his wife! It was amazing! And they're super sweet, and they love the missionaries.
We had a video call with a less active and he said that he wants to come back, and wants to read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover, so he wants us to come over once a week to keep him accountable. Which was awesome!
But the bigger miracle was that right after we ended the call, we saw that one of our investigators, Jose, was online, so we called him up right then, and he picked up! We saw his daughter, found out that he and his wife actually are married, and shared Moroni's promise, and we committed him to get the Book of Mormon app and listen to it in the car. So that was a huge miracle!
So we have been working with this family in the ward for a while, and this week, I was able to talk with their 10 year old granddaughter and find out that she does know a lot. Then we went back yesterday to say goodbye, and I didn't realize how much of an impact I'd had on Roxie. She really didn't want me to leave, and she made me promise to come back. And for a while now, she didn't want to say prayers (she was fine with other people saying them, but she didn't want to say it), but yesterday, she said the prayer (with my help) when I asked her to! And she asked us to talk about the scriptures with them! It was so cool. She will definitely get baptized fairly soon, and there is no way I'm going to miss it!
Steven is progressing so much! We had an amazing lesson with him and the Mineral King elders on Thursday, and he really understood it and committed to be baptized on July 14th! Which is my birthday! Best birthday present ever!! And then we taught him again yesterday, and he had seen a miracle during sacrament meeting that really confirmed to him that God knew him and loved him. He is so excited to learn, and he knew that if he hadn't had the trials in his life, he wouldn't have the friends he does or the opportunity to learn more about the restored gospel. And then at the end he prayed and asked God not to send Sister Grammer and I to Africa. It was awesome!
So those were the main ones this week. There were tons of little tender mercies, but if I wrote all of those down, this would easily fill a book by the time I finish my mission. Not that it won't anyways...
While I'm totally going to miss Visalia, and I will definitely come back later (that's the nice thing about having family in San Jose), I'm excited to start this new adventure!
Love you tons!
Sister Cate
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