Oh wow! This week was the bomb! Literally..like we made a bomb out of baking soda and a gallon sized container of vinegar during District Meeting....! Haha it was awesome! Our district leader is really into using visuals to get his message across! We were learning about the steps that it takes to get people to come to church! The vinegar was the people, the baking soda was the members and Ward council! It was way fun!
Adventure of the week:
We came out to our car to leave for the day on Tuesday morning, and our back left door was open a crack! The contents of the dash were all over the front seats, and the little cord/circuit thingie box lid thingamajig was off and the cords were exposed!! Holy Toledo!! Our car was broken into!!! Luckily, all license and registration are in place, nothing was broken, and the car runs smoothly! The little booger took only one thing! My flash drive!!! How rude!! Well enjoy the EFY and MoTab!! Hahaha who knows? Maybe it can be the beginning of a beautiful conversion! Music is pretty high up there with ways to connect to the Spirit!
This week we had an amazing experience with a sweet member! We have been using music a lot in our teaching lately, singing a song and bearing testimony with scripture. It truly is fun! We were visiting an elderly sister in the ward whose husband died just about a year ago. We were prompted to sing A Child's Prayer for her and share some scriptures on that. As we sang, she smiled and was just touched! As soon as we finished, she told us that that exact song has been stuck in her head the past few weeks and that she couldn't remember the whole thing! She was so grateful that we sang that song for her because she was able to learn how it goes! It's the little things like that that just bring a smile to my face! <3
We had another miracle happen! (so many!) There is a 17 year old less active named Stephen in our ward, but he is never home. :( He and his sister were baptized about 2 years ago and Sister Bloomfield, unbeknownst to me, has been praying to run into him on the streets because he is never home. Yesterday, we did! It was so cool! He was with a friend and we said hello...as we crossed paths on the crosswalk! Oh no!! We were only able to say hello! :( After the exchange, Sister Bloomfield was so grateful to have seen them, but said simply "I hope we get to see them again soon so that we can actually talk to them." I said "we will!" Less than an hour later, right outside our house, we ran into them again! Heavenly Father is so good! We were able to talk to them longer this time and it was just so good! I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father that looks out for our needs!
Another miracle! And this one's a doozie!! Once upon a time it was Wednesday night, and we have coordination meeting for Willoughby ward at the church 8:00 every Wednesday. So we come pulling up at about 7:45 to get to our meeting, and see a car parked right smack dab in front of the front doors of the church. As we drive by the car, I think I recognize her as a ward member and feel prompted to back the car up to talk through the windows. As missionaries, we are not allowed to do that without a backer outside of the car! But...ya know...when the spirit says to do something....you do it! So I backed er up and we said "hello!" to the lady! Turns out, she isn't a member of the church, and had parked her car there because she "feels good" there! We were ecstatic!! :D We had about 10 minutes before the meeting, but the Elders and Ward Mission Leader didn't appear to be there yet, so we said we would love to give her a short church tour before our meeting if she would like! She said yes! So we had an amazing church tour, taught a bit of the Restoration, set a return appointment for TONIGHT (so excited) and had just an amazing experience! Come 8:15 we had said goodbye and sent her on her way with no sight of the Elders! We then received a text from them saying that coordination had been moved to the ward mission leader's house that night! BUT they sent the message at 3:30 that afternoon. Our phone didn't receive the text until after we had been at the church and met MariLou! Oh it just built my faith SO MUCH that Heavenly Father is in the details of the details of the details!! I know that there is a very important reason that we didn't receive that text message until later! We wouldn't have gone to the church if we had gotten it on time!! It was such a cool experience!! :D
I am so grateful for all the miracles great and small that Heavenly Father blesses us with! :D
have an amazing week!!
love,
Sister Van Valkenburg
ps. Pictures of Halloween Costumes and your smiling faces would be much appreciated!! <3
My sweet companion and the chocolate/banana/Peanut butter pancakes we made! We couldn't just do the regular mix! ;)
We tried donairs for the first time! Yummy!
The ward trunk or treat! ...We switched nametags! Cuz that's all we can do! XD
I got a little excited for Christmas last P-day and bought chocolate countdown calendars...! Now it just needs to be December 1st!! XD Merry Christmas!! :D
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