Week of Miracles

It´s been a week of miracles for us. And I´ve really been blessed to have my faith strengthened in fasting too. The ward is doing a 40 day fast and this weekend all the missionarys in the mission did one too. We´re having a special week this week where we are trying to be perfectly obedient, we´re calling it the week of consegration (or however you spell that in english). Sacrificing those things that we have a hard time giving up in a n effort to turn our missions over to the Lord even more. It´s barely started and we´ve had miracles!

We found a family from Romania and there´s a couple in the ward that speak Romanian and so we can teach them.

We got a hold of a less active that wasn´t answering her phone.

A less active we´ve been working with for months came to church this sunday, and a different woman the sunday before!

And the biggest miracle of all, Karina. She had decided earlier this last week that she didn´t really want to get baptized, that she wasn´t ready. We´d been talking about the 3rd of May as her goal and she in the end decided no.

This Sunday the principles of the gospel class was giving by the ward mission leader and was on covenants, specifically the Abrahamic covenant. The spirit was really strong as he talked and, not knowing Karina had dropped her baptism date, talked to her directly about getting baptized ont he 3rd. During the end of the class I had the impression that we couldn´t leave the classroom without talking about baptism again, that we needed to talk about the 3rd. Just as I turned to Karina Hna Cerna came over (she´d been sitting with someone else) and started the conversation I´d been promted to have too. I don´t even remember what was said. Except for Karina saying, ´´ I don´t know if its the right choice, but I´ll be baptized on the 3rd´´. 

I couldn´t stop the big grin from spreading across my face. I have never felt such excitement and joy for somone in my life. Turns out she´d woken up that morning thinking ´´why don´t I get baptized?´´ and the lesson by the ward mission leader helped give her the last push she needed. So, so amazing to see the Lords hand. I can´t believe I´m so blessed to be able to witness this special moment for Karina! We still have work to do, but she has lots of support and love of hte ward and the Lord. 

Talking to some other members in the ward, turns out that we weren´t the only ones that had been fasting for Karina over the last few months. I was touched to see that this family cared about her so much, I´m so glad she´ll have friends when the missionaries leave. It´s important! When we leave if the investigators and converts don´t have friends, they´ll feel alone and lsot and probablly leave the church. So please, if you see someone new or someone sitting with the missionarys, talk to them! The missionaries can´t do it all :)

Love you all! Thank you so much for all your prayers and love :)

hna woolley

p.s. mom, my memory card freaked out and i lost a bunch of photos. thankfully the majority were on my other card, but i don´t have any photos to send. I´ll try and buy a new card soon hopefully.