It's that time of the week again! Monday always seems to sneak up on me, yet at the same time comes at just the moment I need it most!
Though this has been a challenging week, with the rollercoaster of situations going ever on, it has also been a very good week. Looking back on the week I keep remembering little stories that all have a common thread...
Remember David? He is an ever more interesting fellow. He has his own strong beliefs and that's ok, he also continues to meet with us and is loving reading out of the Book of Mormon. He has his own form of prayer but he has started to get excited to say the prayer "our way" at the end of the lesson. The spirit is so strong and you know he can feel the difference every time he prayers "in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
Craig is a Less-active member who we have been starting to teach. He said a prayer at the end of our lesson and his wife told us it was the first time she has ever heard him pray vocally! It was awesome!
Another Less-active member was having a hard week, last week, and we promised him that if he would pray everyday he would see his week improve. When we went to follow up he told us that it worked!! He had prayed, almost every day, and he saw a distinct difference in the days he started his day with prayer and the days when he did not. He is going to continue to try to pray daily!
After church on Sunday we were feeling a little discouraged because no investigators came to church and our numbers of things like that we have to report were all at zero. Well we decided to walk to an appointment instead of drive and we ran into a guy we have seen a bunch of times but never talked to because he is always rushing past on his bike. For some reason when we said hi this time he stopped and talked with us. He told us of some family struggles he has been having and asked if we could pray for him. So we all stopped right there on the main st. and said a prayer. Us meeting was a little tender Mercy from God to both of us because we got to help him and now we have a beautiful number 1 among all those zeros to report :)
We had the chance to help Jared make a 5 year plan this week, and we also made plans. We were setting goals and every time he had a question about whether a certain thing should be a goal we directed him to prayer. He may have gotten a bit annoyed but that's OK because if he sincerely wants to know the right path to take he needs to consult with God.
Last little miracle! Jeanette, who I believe I have talked about before, has been coming back to church!! She hadn't been to church in years but now she has come for the last three weeks! She even got up and bore her testimony in fast and testimony meeting! She talked about how she fell and broke her shoulder, and how she couldn't get up. She was out on a walk in the middle of the night and there was no one around. She said she realized that she wouldn't be able to get out of this situation on her own. So she prayed, and minutes later someone came and helped her home. She had been glowing ever since!
Prayer is so important! I have done a lot fervent prayer myself this week. I have felt the fog of stress and the winter months pressing on me recently but the more I pray the more that is cleared away and lifted. Help and answers don't always come immediately but they will come in time, and in God's own way, which believe it or not is the best way.
🙏Here is a quote about prayer, by Richard G. Scott, to wrap it all up in a bow!
"Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Actually, because He knows how desperately we need His guidance, He commands, “Thou shalt pray vocally as well as in thy heart; yea, before the world as well as in secret, in public as well as in private.”1
It matters not our circumstance, be we humble or arrogant, poor or rich, free or enslaved, learned or ignorant, loved or forsaken, we can address Him. We need no appointment. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer."
Love you all so much!! Hope this week is amazing and I hope you will always remember that the gift of prayer is ever available, and your Heavenly Father ever listening!
💙Sister Anna Peterson :)
Just some missionary life pics, and a video of Cucamonga the shoulder cat who ate sister Unferdorfer's hair!
Click this link to see: Cat eating Sister Unferdorfer's hair
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