Jan 13

Well... I have 9 minutes.  And I write these things religiously to make sure that you all know I am still alive every week, but I don't think my dearest sister actually posts them all in the same week haha so... sorry about that haha

anway.

This week was crazy! 

On Tuesday, we felt like we needed to go to Sebastapol.  Which is this little ho-donk town on the outskirts of my area.  We had never gone there and from what we had heard, there was little to no Hispanic population.  So we went... on a whim, just following the Spirit.  We had one address to go visit.  So we put it in the GPS and arrived at our destination.  Except it didn't actually exist.  Which happens a lot in missionary work.  And it was frustrating because we don't really have the miles to be driving down to this town for no reason.

So I had the strongest impression to knock on this one door.

And we knocked and no one answered.  And we knocked again, no one.  So we knocked one more time and nothing.

And so we thought, well.  I guess we will go home.

So we started to walk towards the car when the door opened.  And we turned around and this man was standing in the doorway with crutches.  His name was Sergio and he started telling us his life story.  Turns out that he had been in an accident and tore a part of his spinal chord, but through a miracle was able to function.  He was talking about his turn around and his faith when he said, "I know you ladies are here for a reason!  You were in my dream last night.  I think this is a sign from God".

Yes.  It is indeed.

Miracles happen.  We are going back tonight to teach him more.  And I am so grateful for that opportunity that I had to drive down to the middle of nowhere and find one of God's lost sheep who was clearly waiting for us.

So that was an amazing start to the week.  We then went to camp...  I don't know if I mentioned this last week, but a few of us were chosen to go to a leadership camp (namely the STL's and Zl's... I am neither.  But I was one of the lucky few who was given the opportunity to go!  And it was life changing.  Exhausting, but life changing.  It was definitely the kick in he seat of the pants that I needed!  The biggest thing I learned is that you can take God very literally on His blessings.  And He has promised our mission that if we contact 20 new people a day and do some other things, we will baptize weekly.

And we can take that to the bank.

The promises in the scriptures are true- if they came from a representative of the Lord, then you can take them to the bank!

Seriously!

So do it!

Anyway, I am starting to get a little sick.. so please keep my health in your prayers. I do not want to die here in California haha

I LOVE YOU ALL!  Stay strong(:

Love,

Hermana Bryant