Hey Fam!
The world turned green this week! most of the trees grew leaves this week and wow this place looks amazing :) It rained most of the week so Missoula really looks like Portland right now. There are also tons of people out and about. I feel like most people just hibernate for like 9 months but now are ready to just let loose in the streets. We had some amazing things happen this week!
We are teaching a bunch of people right now and I did not say anything about a Sister investigator last week because we were not completely sure she was going to get baptized last Saturday but she endured through her trials and was baptized! I apologize for not writing very detailed letters about all the people we are teaching but she has truly conquered miraculous things in the passed few weeks! We started teaching her about 6 weeks. She grew up in another faith but has not been very active in the church. The guy she is living with is LDS but had not been to church in a few years. He is now active and has overcome the same trials as she is. They both had smoked for years and had tried quitting multiple times before but never could. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and told her she needed to quit before she could be baptized. She had had many spiritual experiences that helped her to know the Gospel truly has been restored but was afraid she could not quit. She had committed to quit Saturday the 19th. We had an appointment with her that night but had no idea the struggle she was having that day. We had promised her that whenever she felt the craving to smoke if she picked up the Book of Mormon and read that God would help her and take away the craving. She told us that in the morning she had been really having a hard time and she was planning on telling us when we came later that night that it was too hard and she can't do it. She prayed to receive strength and said she felt the most warm, comforting feeling come over her and she knew God had heard her prayer for help. She said this feeling stayed with her brought her to tears. A couple hours later she was having cravings again and said she prayed again for help and literally 2 seconds after closing her prayer our Bishop, Bishop Hanni, called her and said he felt he should come over and visit. Bishop went and shared the new video on Christ, #BecauseofHim, and once again she was brought to tears. Later after Bishop left she started to feel the same again and decided to read the scriptures. She was reading just as we arrived. She was crying when we got there and said that God had answered her prayers 3 times that day and now she knows she can do this! She quit smoking that day and has remained smoke free ever since. I have no doubt in my mind that God is aware of us and our personal needs. I have no idea how He does it but somehow He is able to cater to ALL of our needs. I know that because our Savior suffered for us that He can help us and enable us to do things we can not do on our own: Just as He helped Linda quit smoking so she can enter into the waters of Baptism.
I absolutely LOVE being a missionary! We get to see things I never dreamed we could. God truly is in the details of our lives!
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