All the new trainers and trainees
New trainee, Hm. Visick
7/20/15
It has truly been a week of miracles, in so
many ways. I know now, more than ever, that Heavenly Father knows each of
us, individually,
and He hears our prayers. I can't begin to describe the joy that I feel in
having that knowledge. I'll share an experience that I had here in the mission
field that was a testimony of that to me...
This last week was
transfers and I was called to be a trainer, but we were also doubled-in to an
area, so neither myself, nor my companion, Hermana Visick knew any
investigators or really who we should work with. We decided to try to
visit some former investigators. Before our day started, we pulled some
names of former investigators out of our area book and started to look through
them and find the people that we thought we should visit. I had picked
out some names that I felt good about and put the rest of the names back into
the area book. But when I came back to where I had been sitting there was
one name that had been left out. I intended to put it back in the book,
but as I picked it up, I felt that we needed to visit that person, Sergio. As I
read his record, nothing really stood out to me, but I still felt that we
needed to visit him. So I put his record with the rest of the names we
were going to visit, figuring we'd get to it.
We planned to visit a
couple of other people first, but when we got in the car I again felt like we
needed to go visit this Sergio guy. So we went. We pulled up and
the house looked empty, but we decided to try anyways. As we walked up,
the door opened. A man walked out and asked if we were the renters.
We explained who we were and asked if Sergio was there. He told us that
the previous tenant had moved out a couple of days ago. I was a little bummed,
but we asked him if we could share a video with him about Jesus Christ and he
let us right in. As we talked to him a little more we found out that he had
been sober for two years, but relapsed when we went to Vegas two days
ago. He was "racked with guilt" and beating himself up about
it. We testified to him of the power of repentance and that Jesus Christ
is there to help us along the way, even if we do mess up. The whole time
we were there he kept talking about how amazing it was that we were
there. We testified to him the God knows him and is aware of his needs,
and that's why we were there. And I too know that that's why we were
there. Heavenly Father was aware of this man and his feelings of
defeat. He sent us there to answer this man's prayer. At the end of
our lesson with him we knelt in prayer, but before he offered the prayer, He
looked at us and said, "God works in mysterious ways."
I know, without a
doubt, that there is a God. He knows us and loves us. Every single
one of us. The saint, the sinner, and the in-between. It doesn't
matter who were are or what we've done. We're all children of a loving
Heavenly Father and he's there for us.
I know that us showing
up at this man's house was an answer to his prayers. And Heavenly Father
has answered my own personal prayers in ways that I never would have
expected. It's incredible how He works.... in mysterious ways.
I love you all so
much! Never forget that you have a Heavenly Father who loves you and hears your
prayers.
Les querio
mucho,
Hermana Horne