This week, mainly since Friday, has been absolutely crazy! So Friday morning, I finally reached the point where I decided that I should probably get my ear infection checked out, because my double ear infection from a month and a half ago had come back, so I figured I'd better be safe. We tried to call both mission nurses twice each, but neither of them picked up. We tried to set up an appointment, but the doctor wasn't going to be in until next Wednesday, so we were trying to figure out what to do. Finally, we called Sister Mackay to ask her opinion, since we couldn't get ahold of the mission nurses. We talked to her for a bit, and right before hanging up, she said that President Mackay was actually on the phone with the MTC talking about Sister Smith and wanted to talk to us after he finished the phone call. He then tells us that Sister Smith's mission call has been assigned and that they wanted her to go straight to the MTC on January 2nd, without going home, and that her actual envelope wouldn't get here until Monday or Tuesday, so they were going to send him the PDF and he'd print it off for her to open up, so we'd probably be going down to Fresno to open it. Well, a couple minutes later, he calls back, and says that the MTC called back and said that she'd need to go home to get some other clothes, but that she'd still go into the MTC on the 2nd. So actually, she'd be going home Saturday morning. So we worked on packing, and then we went down to Fresno and she opened her mission call!She's going to the Colorado Fort Collins Mission!!!!!
So then Saturday morning, we went down to Fresno again, and her dad came and picked her up. I feel like I kind of understand what it was like for my mom when she sent me off on my mission. It seriously felt like I was sending my own daughter off on a mission. How do moms do this? But I am super excited for her! She is going to do amazing things. The Fort Collins mission is super lucky!
Heavenly Father has really had a hand in our week. And most of it came because I got a double ear infection.
Firstly, I was trying to finish the Book of Mormon like President Nelson asked, but I still had a lot left, but President Nelson promised that if we would try, Heavenly Father would provide a way. And then I got an ear infection, so I had to put in medicated eardrops and lay on my side for a while. For both ears. So while I was laying in bed with eardrops in, I read the Book of Mormon, and I was able to finish last night.
Another huge miracle from this week was that we got a referral from some sisters in Washington who met someone who had literally been praying for another book of scripture! They taught her the Restoration and she absolutely loved it and she wants to be baptized!! We were trying to figure out how to contact her because all we had was an address, but we didn't have the miles to make it out to her house. We decided to get a member to drive us out there and we would at least leave a note. We were about to contact someone to ask for a ride when the Washington Sisters texted, saying that she had emailed them her number, so they gave us the number and let us know that she was still in Washington. The Lord provides. We were both sick by that point (I passed a cold on to Sister Walker), so we couldn't really go about the work very much, so the Lord did it for us.
I hope you take time this year to notice all the miracles in your life. The Lord loves us!
Sister Cate
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