I love being on a mission so much! It's
amazing to me how loving and merciful Heavenly father is. He is aware of
us and wants to bless us. In the words of one of my amazing STLs "God
doesn't know how to disappoint you. Only bless you."
It
becomes more and more evident to me each day how much Heavenly Father
is guiding this work. This Sunday we had a miracle! Since we cover 2
wards a lot of our meetings overlap. One of our investigators told us
she was coming to church. I will call her Martha. She's the one we found
in front of the church last week. Anyways, we waited for her but she
didn't show so we decided not to go to sacrament meeting but to go to a
meeting with the other ward instead. While we were sitting in that
meeting we got a text from the elders that said "Martha is here and she
is bearing her testimony." My jaw just dropped! Sister Van Valkenburg
and I bolted out of our meeting to find Martha surrounded by a bunch of
ward members thanking her for her testimony. Apparently while on the
stand she told the congregation that she thinks she has found the true
church. It was such a miracle!
Not to mention
this past week we had an AMAZING lesson with Martha and some people from
the ward. The spirit was SO STRONG! I know that this is Christ's true
church restored to the earth. Martha is starting to discover that for
herself too.
This area is SO AWESOME! We have a
ton of awesome activities coming up to kick off Christmas. Since
Thanksgiving is over and done with here Christmas is in full swing! And I
am in heaven! Not to mention the other day a wonderful ward member
signed up to feed us American Thanksgiving! I couldn't even believe how
kind they are! They don't just let us celebrate their holidays, but they
let us celebrate ours as well! I am in my home away from home :)
Yesterday
at church we sang "oh Canada" it was just another small reminder that
I'm in a completely different country. It really is pretty different
here.
Anyways, nothing too exciting happened this week. It is so pretty here! I can't even express to you how beautiful it is.
There's
a scripture that stood out to me this morning from the Book of Mormon.
It's in 3 Nephi 27:10 and is Christ talking describing misisonary work.
It says "and for this cause ye shall have fulness of joy and ye shall
sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea your joy shall be full even as
the Father hath given me fulness of joy; and ye shall be even as I am
and I am even as the Father; and the Father and I are one" I know that
the greatest joy comes from serving God.
Have an amazing week!
Sister Bloomfield