Week 58 - San Rafael

Hola qué tal??

This week has been a pretty good one! It's fun to look back and see all the miracles that happen in one week. There's too many to count. This week we went on exchanges I was with sister Jeffrey in Novato! And let me tell you how amazing sister Jeffrey is, oh wait I can't! She's just to great to describe.

It was so awesome being with her she doesn't speak Spanish but the gift of tongues worked miracles and she really understood what was happening in all the Spanish moments we had!

We had some time for finding and how blessed we were! We went to one huge apartment complex and just started knocking. We didn't have too many people open the door but we were able to talk to people walking around. We meet one women who was a member and actually served a mission in Peru for the church so it was really cool to talk with her.

After that we meet a man doing his laundry and we talked with him about Christ for quite some time. He bore testimony to us about how he has helped him in his life. We shared a message with him and he told us we could go back and talk with him but before saying we could he told us it better be the same God and Christ he is talking about because if it's different we would have problems. We reassured him they are the same. :) 

And then another miracle! About four months ago when I got to Novato Hermana tribe and I tried so hard to meet with a part member member family, Brenda and Jonathan. We tried so hard but could never find time but the Lord works miracles everyday.

Brenda and her daughter

They recently moved to another apartment and contacted the Elders and asked them to visit with us. So we went and wow they are so prepared for more of the gospel! Brenda is the sweetest and cutest and bore testimony about the church and how she wants to go back and be an example to her family, she's working on sundays but is searching in the scriptures for a way to get sundays off. What an example!

We can find all the answers as we search and pray. And then Jonathan just already seemed like a member and said we can surely come back and teach them. Really the spirit works wonders and the Lord has prepared this family so much and we can see how he wants to bless them. It was SO exciting to meet with them and see the progress and spirit that they had. 

This week we talked a lot about gratitude, sometimes during the day it's hard to see the blessings and tender mercies that are given to us. Everyday life is tiring but if we really look hard every day we will see that there are millions of blessings each day. Big and even more that are small. We have such a loving Heavenly Father that wants us to know of Him that is so ready to bless us if we would only follow his simple yet powerful commands! I encourage you all to look for your blessings and then find a way you can improve this week so that you are worthy to recurve even more of the blessings that Lord has in store for us.

The Lord never ever stops blessing us but He must withhold blessings from us if we are not in accordance with his word. One of my favorite quotes is "si hoy eres un poco mejor que ayer eso es suficiente" so "if you are a little bit better today than you were yesterday that is sufficient" A little step towards our goals is how we accomplish great things.

Like this week when spiders prompted me to move my bed to find a window covered in mold. Step by step with the help of bleach that window is no longer disgusting. No Hermana Fosters were harmed as rubber gloves and napkins were used. We will leave off with that note, don't take non moldy windows for granted. :) 

Con amor,

Hermana Foster 

Alma Jaro

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