The Missionary Life of: Week 72

¡Buenas tardes!! ¿Como estan??

This week was busy busy busy! We of course had many finding adventures. This week involved looking for an address on a lot of messed up confusing dirt roads where we saw tons of cow... and llamas... yep llamas like 6 of them so that was great.

We did meet and have the most interesting conversation with a nice man who was very drunk. Let me tell you those conversations are always pretty interesting. But there was a bunch of other things that were awesome!

We tried one other house before going in for the night and Hermana Jimenez was laughing at me because I guess in Puerto Rico if there's a fence around a house that's a no entrance sign and nobody enters. Yea so I've never heard of that here so fences aren't a thing for me everyone has a fence but they all have a door and people inside that need the gospel.

We got to visit with our investigator Aura. She is from Nicaragua so she invited us over for lunch and had us help her cook which was fascinating. Prays for her and her family that they can continue to get better and that a baptismal date can go through for her!! She's so close and feels the difference of the gospel there's just a few more things that need to happen for her to get to that font!

We also were able to have zone conference and I was able to go to MLC which was filled with such a great spirit where I was able to learn so many things.

But I'll share the really cool experience from the week.

So we had a little bit of time after MLC and before dinner to visit someone. So we decided on an investigator we had that we hadn't seen for a little bit, Navidad. So we drive to her apartment complex and we park and we walk up to the door. I had been there the previous week so I was just all confident in knocking this door right cause it was hers. Let's not mind the fact that there was a child car seat right outside the door and that Navidad doesn't have any young kids. We totally both disregarded that and knocked and a nice Indian women answered named Rawand... ha not Navidad... but come to find our this women from Palestine is the in the United States speaking English and is married to a Hispanic so also speaks Spanish.. what? Yep trilingual. But she just started talking away with us as we did the missionary thing and continued to contact her despite our obvious confusion at her not being Navidad.

We ended up having the best conversation with her about how the world is crazy but how Christ is such a comfort to have. She was a golden contact as she told us she didn't understand why there were so many different churches in the world if there was only one God... say what?!? But it was just a great conversation and we got her number and left her with a pamphlet and her telling us she would call us when she got her schedule for the next week.

Right before we left she thanked us for talking with her and for not just leaving when she wasn't who we had been looking for. She said she felt a weight lifted from her shoulders as she had talked with us and that she was so grateful we had knocked on the wrong door so that we were able to meet her.

WOW! If the plan of God isn't the most perfect thing I don't know what is. Our confidence in knocking that door and disregarding all the signs of it not being Navidads house. We came to find out later that we had walked into the section of apartments right before the entrance to Navidads, they all look exactly identical we just somehow got the one right before hers by a NOT coincidence. And the blessing of continuing to contact was see with Rawband, what would have happened if we would have just left? A huge opportunity would have been missed my testimony was so strengthened by her.

And she also told us that she usually works all day Saturdays but that this Saturday she had gotten the day off somehow so she was glad that we had found her. How amazing. :) The Lord is in charge of this work and will guide us at all moments to his children that are ready because they are out there everywhere always. Have I ever said that I love being a missionary? :)

Not to make this email to long but one more thought before ending, a story that was shared at one of the meetings this week. There are so many things that we believe in this church and one of them is that we hold the key to how we can gain eternal life to go back and live with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ again.

So imagine this. you're in a train station. There are people everywhere that have tickets to the same destination and the train has arrived for them to board. All of these people with tickets believe that they have the ticket that will take them to paradise but those of us that didn't purchase those tickets are more than wise because we know. We know that the tracks aren't finished and that at one point on their ride they will be destroyed.

You are around all those with tickets and you know the secret to saving their lives... Now it's your choice will you save them or not?... You have the fate of their lives in your hands and will choose what to do with that... You are there amidst the crowd and you have a choice by talking and trying to tell someone that they are wrong; you might bother, confuse, or even offend someone in the process. But you know what they don't know and the only way they can even begin to know and make a choice of if they will board the train or not is if you open your mouth and tell them. So what will you choose to do?

Love you all!!!! ¡Espero que pueden tener una semana buenísimo llena del Espíritu y feliz! Gracias por todo de sus oraciones y para su amor.

Que tengan un buen semana,

Hermana Foster