Faith and Miracles

Hola todo!

This past month there has been a big focus on finding new investigators. It's always a struggle talking to random people, when you know they either think you are a Jehovah's Witness or selling them a timeshare. But we do it, and we're often rejected, and we make new friends, and we see miracles.

This week we had a couple wonderful miracles! The first- Edgar is feeling better! After a few weeks of being in and out of the hospital, he is home and happy again. The first thing he says when we call him is "when are you visiting me?!" And before we could start teaching him Saturday, he informed us that he already called Hmna Casado to drive him to church. :) yes, Edgar is doing great.

Do you remember Andres? The recent convert in Aurora, that got baptized in September? Well, he has a cousin named Felix. She and her husband Pablo live here in our area! They went to visit Andres a while ago and saw the hermanas there visiting, and caught interest. The hermanas in Aurora gave us their info. We've been trying to contact him for nearly a month, and this Sunday we received a call from Pablo- they wanted us to visit that night! We went and they are so prepared! Pablo said he saw the change in Andres and wants to be a part of it. He also said he only visits Andres once every 3 months, and it just happened to be the night the hermanas visited him. Miracles are real! We will be teaching them again next Sunday!

We also taught lots of cool people, had our zone conference where we gave a training on finding, had a big long Missionary leadership council which was awesome, and a million other things! We went in exchanges with the Rockford hermanas, but forgot to take pictures. It was wonderful though! I was with hmna Lewis, who only has a few months in the mission but is already so great!

A cool change: we will now be going on an extra exchange with each of the hermanas, where we go to their area and help them find new investigators. Which means we will have 4 solid days that no one will be working in our area! But that's ok, I'm super excited. Double the exchanges, double the miracles. 

Here's a cool quote to think about:

"Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is not something ethereal, floating loosely in the air. Faith does not fall upon us by chance or stay with us by birthright. It is, as the scriptures say, “substance …, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith emits a spiritual light, and that light is discernible. Faith in Jesus Christ is a gift from heaven that comes as we choose to believe and as we seek it and hold on to it. Your faith is either growing stronger or becoming weaker. Faith is a principle of power, important not only in this life but also in our progression beyond the veil. By the grace of Christ, we will one day be saved through faith on His name. The future of your faith is not by chance, but by choice."

Elder Neil L. Anderson October 2015

Con amor,

Hermana Hokanson