A God of Miracles
April
14, 2014
I’m pretty sure that has been my subject line before, but it’s just so true every week! The Lord is truly working in His vineyard here in Bolivia and we see miracles every week as we strive to be obedient and do the Lord’s will. Hermana Ence and I are working hard here in Central 2, and we are starting to see the Lord’s hand more and more here in this area. I think I mentioned last week that we had some challenges finding investigators and did a lot of walking around, contacting and getting rejected. Well, this week, I strove to humble myself more and try to forget about my personal "success" in the mission, to remember that it’s not about my "success," it’s about doing the Lord’s work and giving all the glory to Him. We also looked for what more we could do to just give a little bit more of ourselves to this work and decided to fast. And this week, we saw miracles. Our big goal in this zone has been a noche blanca (a night where everyone in the zone baptizes together in one huge baptismal service) on May 3, so we have been searching for investigators that will be prepared for baptism that day. At the start of this week, we had only one person that had accepted baptism for that day, but during the week, we taught a lesson to another woman and invited her, and she also accepted that baptism date. We were excited and determined to work hard to get the two of them to church, knowing that if they didn’t go to church this Sunday, they wouldn’t be able to get baptized on May 3. Then we kept working hard, looking for more people. Well, on Sunday we were praying hard that these two investigators, and more, would be able to come to church, and we went out to look for them. Both of them fell through and couldn’t come, and we were pretty disappointed, but I just tried to remember that even if we’re the only companionship in the zone that doesn’t baptize in the noche blanca, that’s okay because it’s about doing this work in the Lord’s time and learning what He wants us to learn here.
But to our surprise, although these two women didn’t come to church, two sisters that we met one night when we were lost and asked for directions, did come to church, AND they brought a friend with them! And apart from that, an investigator who was learning with the elders who were in this area before us, but who has been avoiding us since we got here, came to church too! We could never find her in her house and she had always fallen through on the lessons we scheduled, so just a day earlier we had decided to stop looking for her. But it appears that the Lord has other plans for her, because she came to church on her own yesterday and said we could visit her this Tuesday!
We also found several other promising investigators this week that seem quite interested and could be more baptisms for the middle or end of May. All in all, it was a good week. I am learning a LOT about the importance of faith, patience, perseverance, and humility in this area. It doesn’t matter if the results don’t come fast or if it doesn’t look like people want to listen to us. What matters is that we give it our all, and I know that the Lord will give us the miracles that He wants to give us, in His time. Thank you all for your love and support, and remember to always trust in the Lord and the daily miracles He sends.
Love you all! Have a great Easter, and I invite you all to remember what Easter truly represents:
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And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and btemptations of every kind; and this that the word
might be fulfilled which saith he will ctake upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his
people.
12
And he will take upon him adeath, that he may bloose the bands of death which bind his people;
and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with
mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to csuccor his people according to their infirmities.
(Alma
7:11-12) I love our Savior for what He did for us. I invite you all to study
more about His atonement and resurrection in this special week.
Love,
Hermana
Chelsie Faulk
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