It's raining in Utah?

You all keep mentioning the rain in Utah I cant help but giggle a little every time. You all need rain? I'll talk to the clouds here for ya ;) Isnt fasting so great? That leads into my miracle for the week here.

Our Mission President has invited us all to work so that we can have a baptismal interview every week among our districts. This means we sisters need to have someone ready every three weeks. Its really big. Anyways our district has been struggling a little to get this. We have so many amazing people but they are facing jsut a few rough trials they are struggling to overcome and so we havent had the interviews yet. So our District of 6 little white people from America began a fast for them. Miracles did happen. In a very different way than we thought. First, the Elders from Luo Dongs investigators- an 8 year old boy William and his less active grandma (who I origionally started teaching) he CAME TO CHURCH! the YiLan elders two of their girls (Rei Jia and her friend who I also started teaching) commited to a new date and are willing to live the law of tithing! And ours... two of our investigators let us know they dropped. BUT our one Margie (a phillapino I wrote about before) IS SO SOLID!!!!!!! She will be baptized this month! then the unexpected blessings. Because us sisters have been having little time with solid investigators we have been spending a lot of time trying to contact our less actives and strengthen thier faith. It has not been an easy process... especially cause now I am good enough In chinese that I can understand every mean word they are saying to us. But after calling and calling and praying and praying we had such a miracle! We called one her name is Yan jie mei, she wasnt in town. We thought a dead end but then SHE CALLED US BACK! She called us and told us "hey I just got back into YiLan where are you girls?" We set up and visited her that night. The next day after months of not coming she CAME TO CHURCH! Next, I have been trying to get a hold of a less active sister geng that lives nearby but each time its a no answer. We even climbed up 12 flights of stairs to try to see her she didnt answer. But we kept trying. And yesterday SHE CASME TO CHURCH! Family, I wish you could feel the joy I felt as I saw those precious sisters sitting with us. It was wonderful. I am so thankful for the strength of fasting. it truly will bring miracles. Continue to fast. Continue to pray. They will be answered.

And now for the funny awkward moments of the adventures of Sister O'Brien and Sister Thornley-

We often get to have time for knocking... which means we get to stand at the bottom of a HUGE building and ring the doorbells and talk to them from a speaker to try to help them feel the spirit enough to let us in. Well... yesterday we were ringing and one man let us up without even hearing us... needless to say he was having a party that night and thought we were just his friends (haha!!!!) Well then normally we would go back down and start ringing again. This time though Sister O'brien had us just go the next floor down and ring right at their door step (yes this is indeed a little rude) But we did. WHen no one answered the door I thought we were off safe. Op, spoke to soon a woman answered then and then most awkward thing ever- after introducing ourselves and asking a little about her she turns us down then says, "Hey by the way how did you get in here anyways?" HAHAHAHA AHH MAN so awkward! :) hehe anyway we learned our lesson. Just go back down and start over again. :) WEll everyone I love ya all hope you are all safe and happy!@

-Sister Thornley