Salutations family.
Sounds like everyone had a good week. Relaxing full of laughs and love and time with the family. Its what Christmas is mostly about. Cool. Well I had a good week. More growing, its good for me. Had a cool experience that I wrote about to President Roney so I may just be doing the wonderful copy paste right now.
Lately I have been feeling like I have been having a really hard time feeling the spirit and that I havent really been an instrument of the Lord. It was really really getting to me, I may have cried about it a time or two. Anyway, yesterday I had an incredible very sacred experience. It was something that I have never experienced before. We were doing personal study and it was getting towards the end of the hour. I was reading in Daughters of My Kingdom when I thought of an ami that we have that lives just down the road from us. I had a very strong prompting to call her. I did just that but there was no response... I deceided that maybe it was just in my head. Then, not even two minutes later I felt a very strong prompting, as if someone were speaking to me, say, Go to her apartment. I thought I was going crazy. She didnt answer her phone, she wasnt really a progressing ami and we were at the point of dropping her. I told Soeur Klingaman about my feelings and she said okay lets go. So we cut our studies a little short and we got our coats on to leave. I was not in any hurry until I felt this same voice saying "dépêchez-vous" (hurry up). I then told Sister Klingaman about this and we started moving faster, almost jogging down our road to this amis home. When we arrived she was not home. I was so confused. How could she not be home. I had these promptings telling me very clearly exactly what I needed to do. Was I really making it all up in my head? Am I seriously that bad at feeling the spirit? We left the building and started for the tram to go to a less actives home. On the way there Sister Klingaman contacted a man that did not let her speak very much but he was telling her why we need a restoration and that the true church of Jesus Christ has been lost and changed. I was not right next to her for the contact so I dont know much else about what was said but they exchanged numbers and we will hopefully be seeing him and his family in the coming week. Maybe I did listen to exactly what the spirit was telling us to go to Esthers house but maybe it wasnt Esther we needed to see. It was the fact that we were in the right place at the right time to meet Pierre. I dont know what will come of this but I do know that Heavenly Father has us do things that we do not always understand. We must be willing to listen and obey the promptings of the spirit. That is when true miracles occur.
I have been praying for miracles to happen very fervently lately. Today another cool experience happened. Actually about an hour ago. We were getting off at the bus stop to come to the church to do our emails. We were in the back of the bus and the same time we got off a man got off the front of the bus and he said, hey! you're missionaries right? I wont lie, I was kind of like oh no, whats he going to try and argue about... but he didnt he told us that he was taught by the missionaries a little over a year ago and that he really liked it. We asked him if he would like to learn again with us and he said yes. Wow miracles! I love that when we pray for something and the Lord knows that we are truly waiting for the response he will give it to us but if we are not ready to receive hes not going to give us anything!
Um so Sister Klingaman likes to right down the stupid stuff I say, since I have nothing left to tell you, I will share some of my famous quotes.
"its funny how that light can turn me on... um... i mean... its funny how turning that light on can wake me up..."
"I've never had zucchini with bread....oh you mean zucchini bread?"
" I dont want to get married right after my mission, but I dont want to be single forever. I'll just live with my parents"
Well I must admit. I think I have become more blonde on my mission. Or maybe its just more apparent to me. Who knows. Either way, I am learning and thats the point of missions right?!
Sorry I dont have any inspiring words to welcome in the new year! Someone watch the ball drop for me! I will be sleeping like a little baby. No fun parties or anything tonight. We are not allowed.
Love to you all!
Soeur Kimberly Addis
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