So for the week we saw so many miracles all from a huge test of our faith. We as I think I told you all recently have been very investigator-less and so our time is required to be out on the streets or knocking doors. So thats what we have been doing. It took so much prayer to accept this. I think sometimes I feel that if we are not teaching in a lesson at every half hour and getting a baptism every week then I am not doing the Lords work correctly. I know it is so important to do this effectively and we have the potential to get a baptism each month but I hope to also keep it in perspective. But the fruits of our labors as my companion says are starting to bloom.
We found 5 new investigators this week! SO GREAT and as we did this we were able to be happy the whole time! Another huge miracle was that we have been praying for someone to be able to be baptized while we are here together and werent sure how this could happen because they have to come to church several times before they could be baptized and the past 3 weeks we had had NO ONE at church. :( But we got a miracle call. A girl who had been an investigator for years and years and never got baptized called us and told us, Hey Sister Yao. I went to my friends baptism. And I want to come back. I wanted to start crying. I am so excited to see where this goes.
I also realized this week that our motives are very important to the work. We are only able to do as much as we think we can and as our faith requires. I realized that my purpose my drive before was to be an exactly obidient missionary and do whatever the Lord asked of me with full heart and be valiant in doing it. Then I was thinking, So Kim, why do you want to help these people be baptized? My answer at that time was, because thats my purpose thats how they come unto Christ and because President Day expects us to get one a month. WHOA! Slapped myself dont worry. I did it. Then I took some time to pray really hard to help me have more love for these people and desire their eternal salvation. I learned from my companion that I need to look at these people as my brothers. My sisters. And I need to really WANT to live with them MY FAMILY for eternity and thats why I want to help them. So that they can be there with me. It worked. IT was that night that we found the investigators. I really do love them and I am excited for it to keep growing.
Okay so for the funnies of the week. We were biking at night among the houses inbetween the rice fields. I am in the lead and I see a huge black dog in the field tense up as we come up. I get a little afraid that it will chase after us. Well I pass and it didnt come. I look back to check on my companion and right then I hear her scream WHOA SISTER THO(R)NLEY (the parenthesis are so you know to put in a new zealand accent on the r) DID YoU SEE THAT?! and yes yes I did I did see the dog jump at her but thankfully it stopped. SHe then starts laughing that was the first FROG I have ever seen here! -okay so yes I am like HUH? That was not a frog darlin and turns out the Lord blessed her to not get hurt by distracting her from teh dog jumping at her by catching her eye on a frog that was on the other side of the road. She didnt even see the dog at all.
Next thing so sometimes we get little critters in our houses here.. Well I am also a bit paranoid we are going to come home and have a stranger in our house so I always check and flip on all the lights as we come home. Well I came into my studies room flip on the light and see something black move out of the corner of my eye, scream and jump. It was a little lizard on the wall. HAHA Then it was right next to me this morning as I was studying good little guy eat ALL The mosquito!
Well that is pretty much it! I love you all! Have a great week!
-Sister Thornley
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