Yesterday in church they announced a boundary change for the wards up here in Tehachapi. The Tehachapi ward (where I was) is really big compared to the Bear Valley ward (where I am now) so they took a chunk from T-hach and gave it to BV. It's just really funny that it happened right after I got moved. It's like the ward just moved with me :)
Miracle of the week: We were tracting and we met a lady named Ashley and the first thing she did was invite us inside and ask what message we had to share with her. So we taught her the whole Restoration and she was really listening and paying attention and wants to read the Book of Mormon and find out if it's true! She is so so awesome and so prepared! It was a huge tender mercy. I have had cool experiences tracting in the past that made me realize why we do it, but this was probably the most amazing one yet. And my companion Sister Dow, who hasn't been out as long, said that she now has a testimony of tracting as well. The only thing that will hold Ashley back is that she has to work on Sundays and can't come to church. But we are meeting with her on Thursday, and hopefully something will happen that will allow her work situation to change.
Bonnie is doing fabulously. SHE IS THE CUTEST OLD LADY ON THE PLANET! I will need to get a picture with her this week to show you how dang cute she is. And she is so prepared! We taught her the Word of Wisdom this week. We knew that she drank coffee because we saw it in her kitchen, so we weren't sure how she would take it. When we committed her to live the Word of Wisdom during the lesson she said "Yes, of course! I drink coffee but I will just have to stop." Wow, what amazing faith! :)
I got to meet Hong and Mike this week. They are our other investigators. It is really interesting to teach them. Hong has very limited gospel knowledge, so we have to keep things basic for her to understand, but her husband is very familiar with religion and has lots of questions. Some of his questions are super random though. We need to help him feel the spirit more and help Hong to understand what we're talking about. But I am excited to continue teaching them both!
Recently I have been reading 2 Nephi 2. It is only one chapter, but it has so much in it. I don't even know what keeps drawing me to it, but I ended up studying it 3 days in a row, and then in church we talked about the Fall of Adam and Eve, which is what the chapter is partially about. Clearly I am supposed to be learning something important from it. One thing that I've learned from it is that Satan's goal is for us to be miserable, like him, but God's goal is for us to have joy. v25 "Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy." The chapter also talks about how in order to have joy, we need to face opposition and to experience pain and sorrow. We need the bad to recognize and appreciate the good.
I have definitely seen that to be true, in life before and during my mission. Some days are really hard, but they make the miracles so much more sweet. I love me investigators so much more because of all the miserable rude people I talk to. God's plan is so good! :) We just have to recognize the good when it does come and to find joy in it.
I hope that you may all be able to find joy this week, in spite of whatever opposition you might face. Find the good in every day!
Love,
Sister Daelemans
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