AMAZING FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST! how is it already august? Daddy- thank you so much for the package!!!! as always, i was amazed at your packing skills. how you managed to fit it all in is amazing and i had to eat some stuff right then in order to fit the rest back in the box. haha. it's still hot. every day. and so wonderful. we have had an amazing week of finding and teaching many people for the first time. two big highlights from this week:
on sunday night, i started talking to this mom on a scooter with her three little girls. we just talked about families and being a mother (she asked me how many kids i have.....uh......none). but i shared with her about my amazing angel mother and the strength my parents are to me. anyway, we set up a time to meet with her at her apartment. as we were waiting in the lobby i was so SHOCKED to see her husband come down with her to meet with us. i was just thinking, WOW A FAMILY! he seems like such a great father and he was participating in the lesson. i am so excited to keep meeting with them! the ward mission leader and his wife are coming with us this week. as we were talking with them and some of our other investigators this week, i just got this amazing insight into how the Lord is preparing these people. They are His children and His hand is in each of their lives. It's so exciting to hear people talk about their lives- they don't see how the Lord has been interacting with them, but we do. i love helping people gain the ability to feel the Lords love for them.
second highlight was a tracting miracle. we were knocking doors and a woman came out. she is like in her 30s and her name is claire. we were talking to her and her english is PERFECT which always throws me off a little. it's interesting when chinese comes out more naturally than english. haha. as we were talking to claire she seemed pretty interested but didnt really want to put down her information. we kept talking about her goals and how she is really driven. shes in graduate school studying government and she told us her big goal is to pass this test. as we kept talking to her about prayer, she suddenly blurted out "actually, i do want to put my information down." we kept talking to her and she blurted out again "another big goal i have is to have children. i really want to start a family" i really saw the spirit working within her as we talking and encouraging her to meet with us. i really saw how the spirit is the true teacher. she was willing right then to pray with us and she said it and now we're meeting with her on wednesday. we have been blessed with so many contacting miracles.
sister Hill is SUCH A GREAT COMPANION! we are seriously laughing all the time. i love being with her. i just feel like we are sisters. being in this ward with her is so fun. our ward is just fun! the relief society president, who is extremely pregnant, bore her testimony this sunday and mentioned how grateful she is that there are sister missionaries in the ward. she feels like we have been able to help so much with the less active sisters. i don't feel like we've down that much but i am so grateful that Heavenly Father knew the she needed support and sent us here.
we took our recent covert contacting and teaching with us this week. IT WAS SO FUNNY! she decided that we should go to carrefour because it has air conditioning and good food. so we went and started talking to people about our english class. there was this huge display of balloons and she asked the sales person if we could have some. they gave us some and she started handing them out to kids and telling them about english class. haha she is such a rockstar and is seriously inviting like EVERY SINGLE PERSON to english class. haha i love her so much and she is so solid.
this move call is so crazy. there are like 30 new missionaries on island and so many changes are happening with the new president. i really like him. he's very focused on our personal development and progress. i think that is how Heavenly Father views us. it doesn't matter as much where we are, or what our calling is, or what we are doing, as much as it matters who we are becoming and how we are using the opportunities He gives us.
i can't believe sister Hill is already half done with training. another move call like we just had and then we'll see what the Lord has in store for me. This work is amazing and it is all the same great work, no matter where we are or what we are doing. i am so grateful for all your letters and emails!! hawaii sounds like an adventure. sounds like you were hobos for a little while there. haha good olde times. love you all so much. i am praying for you! keep the faith. aloha
love
sister Newman
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