Miracle and Stuff!!

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Hey y'all! Well another week has come and gone and time is starting to go by pretty quick! (Ahhhh!) I hope you all had a great week! We had some pretty awesome things happen this week!

Monday:  We hung out with the zone for the last time before transfers and that was pretty fun. Oh! We also went to Walmart for the first time since I've been here and I was so happy!! I love Walmart haha. Yeah that was pretty much the highlight of the day.

Tuesday: MIRACLE!! So we had a salmon barbecue at 5pm with one of the wards and it was so great to try and get to know more of the members and just talk to them. We stayed for about an hour and a half and then we went off to start contacting some people. The first house wasn't too far from the park we were at so we went and checked it out. Well, this house was SKETCHY! There were a ton of motors and there was a boat on the lawn and so much other stuff. Walking up to the door was even more sketchy. It was covered by bushes and shrubbery and I was just thinking "if I wasn't on a mission there is no way I'd come to this house". But we knocked on the door and we heard dogs barking and then this older guy opens the door and says "are you the Mormons"? We said "Yeah, we are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." and he says, "Oh ok, one second". Sister Cluff and I just looked at each other with a confused look and then he walked out and started talking to us. He told us how he has had missionaries before and he really liked some of the stuff they taught him. We knew he had never read the Book of Mormon and so we got on that topic. Sis Cluff shared an awesome experience about how the Book of Mormon helped her and spoke to her. After she shared that, he just broke down right in front of us and he knew that it was the Spirit that was there. I testified of the Book of Mormon and the Spirit was so strong. He said how he hasn't felt that for a while and we really stirred something in him. (Then we got a little side tracked and fed a deer with him haha. And it eat a piece of bread and an apple right out of my hand!!) We talked about a lot of different things but the last thing we talked to him about was the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The crazy thing was that that morning we were practicing teaching that simply! It was amazing! And at the end I asked him if he would finally open up the Book of Mormon and read at least a page and he said he would and then shook on it!! It was so awesome and we set up a return appointment. It was just so awesome!

I FED A DEER!!

Wednesday: We went out with Sis Bray from the Mt. Erie ward and visited a lot of less actives pretty much all day. It was pretty great.

Thursday: We had district council and got to meet all the new missionaries that got transferred into our district. It was awesome and now I'm not the baby of the district anymore! We have two brand new missionaries so that is awesome! The whole district except for 1 is under 9 months so it's a pretty young district. But yeah, we had some good lessons with some members and recent converts that night and it was great.

Friday: We had service at the zoo that morning and well Dave took us back to the reptile room. He had us clean the outside class of the snake cages...yeah not fun. There were a couple that kept lunging at the window when I would be wiping the glass. Oh man, I was so out of there!

Pics from the zoo.

We met a lot of super nice people later that night. We went and visited a former member and she asked for a pamphlet! We are going to go visit her again sometime soon and see how we can help her.

Saturday: Mostly weekly planning to be honest. We had dinner with some members who just moved in not too long ago and it was so much fun getting to know them. We had a lesson with Pam and earlier this week we heart attacked her door. When we went over she had all the hearts taped on the back of the door! It was so awesome!

Sunday: Church was great! We had a less active there because her oldest daughter told her they needed to go to church. It was so awesome to see them there and they said they had a very spiritual experience. After church we had meetings with both ward mission leaders and those went pretty well. We had a lesson with a recent convert right after those and we talked about the Atonement and how she can use it in her life everyday.

Well that was the week! Sorry it's kind of long but had to share that experience from Tuesday. This week I was reading a talk by Elder Homer from this last Conference titled "Hearing His Voice". It is an amazing talk and I recommend reading it! A quote I like is "in a world with so many competing voices, our Heavenly Father has made it possible for us to hear and follow His." It is so important for us to listen to the voice of our Heavenly Father. Satan will try to confuse, but if we tune into what that still, small voice is saying things can become clear. I know this too be true and I'm trying my best to do this everyday. I love you all and hope y'all have the best week!

Kia Kaha
Sister Twede

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