Milagros are Real!

10/13/14

This week has been great! So many miracles have occurred! 

God has definitely put us in the right place at the right time.  I don't even know what to write about, there have been so many good experiences. And it has been a CRAZY week.  We taught 27 lessons this week, which was crazy.  Yesterday we had an appointment every hour from 2 to 8, on top of church and studies. We didn't have lunch and had a 15 minute dinner.  It was insane.  But somehow we survived it.  And we had a ton of great, super spiritual lessons that day.  And we brought members to our lessons which made them so much better.  We try to get members to as many lessons as possible, but these lessons were GREAT with the members.  

Anyways, to try to cover the great things this week here's my top ten:

1. Finding David (I was in a parking lot and prayed that God would lead me to who needed what I had to say, and I was led to David.  We've taught him twice.  God DEFINITELY sent us to him) 

[David's story is included at the end of this post.]

2.  Alejandro the investigator... he's the bomb. 

3.  We went to the Redlands temple last week! It was so awesome! 

4.  Sav's mission call!!!! To Boise, Idaho! I'm so stoked for her. Incredible future missionary:)

5. Our recent convert, Roxana, is an INCREDIBLE missionary.  We were eating lunch with her and an investigator in between conference session.  We got up from the table, came back, and she was telling him all about why the gospel was so great and how much it changed her life.  He has issues with tithing so then she basically taught the tithing lesson.  It was awesome.  

6.  Met and had a great lesson with Jacquline, who is SO spiritual and SO sweet!

7.  Left a great blessing with Jacquline's son, Byron and his gf,Yolanda.

8.  Carlos (member) got a ride to a lesson with us! That was seriously a miracle.  We REALLY wanted him there, but he doesn't have a car and we can't drive him.  But we prayed for a miracle and it happened.  And it was a great lesson! He could be an MTC teacher (and his picture is in La Palabra de Sabaduria pamphlet that we teach with so he's basically a celebrity).

9. Mario (investigator) is keeping commitments! 

10. SO MANY ANSWERS TO PRAYERS THIS WEEK!

Love you all!   Con mucho amor, 

Hermana Horne 

[David's Story]  We were OYMing (just like talking to people we saw) in the parking lot of Stater Brothers. I only needed to talk to one more person (because as a companionship we talk to 20 ppl a day). And I had ended up by the door of Stater Bros.  I thought I saw people coming out so I prayed to Heavenly Father to send the person that needed to hear what I had to say out the door.  I waited and waited and no one came. I looked up across the parking lot and saw a man standing by his car with the door open.  He had been there earlier but I hadn't talked to him.  But since he was still there and he was the ONLY other person in the parking lot, I went to talk to him.  I asked him if he had faith in Jesus Christ and he said not anymore.  So I asked him what had happened that made him loose his faith.  We got to talking and apparently his wife left him for another man (although they still live in the same house), he lost his job, he might lose his kids, and his wife was helping him with his papers (he's from Mexico) but that's probably not going to happen anymore.  I told him how dad lost his job and how having faith in Christ and knowing that God was looking out for us really helped us through hard times.  I also testified about the power of prayer.  That in the moments when I felt the most alone, that's when I prayed the hardest, and that's when I felt God's presence in my life. That got to him.  He agreed to have us come by and talk to him.  Then Hermana Juarez came up and testified of prayer as well, and we committed him to try praying. 

I called him two days later and he had prayed and he said it helped calm him down.  So I told him that was the Holy Ghost.  And we've met with him twice since then.  Our last lesson with him was last night, in an awesome member's home and it was great.  The member mentioned how God places people in our path when the timing is right, when we need it.  David said he knew that was true and pointed at me and said "And it's all her fault." I'm SO glad I went up to talk to him.  I was originally just not going to.  But God didn't send anyone out the Staters Bros. door (which is weird because it looked like people were going to come out), and I was led to David.  He knows what he's doing up there. So that was really cool.  And our lessons with him have been great.  He's still trying to find his faith, but he's willing to try, which is the first step.