I have never in my life seen a fall season as magnificently
beautiful as this one. Honestly, the colors and designs that Heavenly
Father has given me to appreciate here are absolutely more breathtaking
than my lungs can handle. I'll send you some pictures...
This
week has been filled with miracles. Like space jam packed into a pickle
jar of peppers that's how awesome it has been. And guess what? It is
all because Heavenly Father cares about His children enough to inspire
us. So first of all it was late at night and we were driving down the
road right? Just cruisin. Then as we are driving, I see this girl
walking down the road, and im like... nothing actually I don't even
think about it... But then the Holy Ghost starts nagging me and telling
me to go back and talk to her, so then I tell Sister Roundy and she
thinks I am crazy but she says to turn around anyways. So we turn around
and park and then start running after this girl. At night. On the side
of a road that isn't even lit. Luckily we ran quietly so she didn't know
until we were closer and then we called out to her. We caught up to her
and started talking. She said her name was Jasmine and she was just
coming home from work. She was like "Now what do you want since you went
through all the trouble to park and run after me in the dark? You
obviously after somethin probably for some Chruch" And so we said that
we had a message for her that would make her happier than she had ever
been before in her life. She automatically said "Alright, so your
Mormon." WHAT? hahaha it was awesome. We kept talking and gave her a
Book of Mormon, and she said she would read it just because we went
through the trouble of talking to her!
So right
after we got back in our car we went to visit a family we hadn't seen
in a while, and the Mom, Fannie, let us in right away! We talked for a
long time and she told us that she had been having a really hard time
with her family, and especially her son. She said that she felt like
Satan was trying to destroy her family through her son, and that the
house had a feeling of darkness in it, and especially in his room.
Fannie said that even other people commented about it when they would
walk into her home. We told her that Christ's power can overcome any
darkness, and testified of the principles of the Gospel to her. We said a
prayer with her, and then had a crazy experience that I will never
forget. While I was praying there was a point in the prayer that I felt
something in the room change. I didn't really notice it at first, but
after we ended, Fannie started crying, and said that at the beginning of
the prayer she felt like this weight or something heavy weighing her
shoulders down, but that towards the end she felt it lift off of her and
her shoulders literally got lighter. She was still really troubled
about it though, and started grabbing her arms and clenching her fists
in agitation and crying harder and said "What is happening?! This is so
weird, I don't know what is happening!" Then she said that she felt it
coming back and she was getting heavier again, and she started crying
even more and we could tell she was really scared. So we decided to sing
a hymn with her before we left to calm her down and give her peace. We
all sang 'Be Still, My Soul' and after that she was herself again. When
Sister Roundy and I left, we said a prayer at the edge of her yard. It
was the craziest experience I have ever had!!!
Well,
we went out a couple days later to go visit some people, and we were
driving home, and then I felt the nagging again!! The spirit told me to
go back to the street we were just on, so we looped around and went back
to the street, and got out of the car. We had no idea what to do so we
started walking, but then I looked around, and there was this man
standing in his doorway, and I went up to him, but he didn't speak
English... I have never wanted to speak Spanish so badly in my life. So
we called up the Spanish Sisters!!! We handed him the phone and they set
up an appointment. It was weird, but it worked! Then Sis Roundy felt
like we should knock on this one house and we practically had a lesson
on his porch! His name is Luis and we gave him a Book of Mormon, an
invitation to the Primary Program coming up soon, our contact info, and
then sang 'I Am a Child of God' with him and his little daughter before
we left. It was awesome. Then we met this crazy man who when we asked
his name hesitated for like 18 seconds and then said it was "John." He
told us that he was Israelite, that the Jews and Jesus were black, and
that everyone except them were going to be burned when He comes
again. It was one of the weirdest contacts I have ever had haha, also
because he thought we were Jehovah's Witnesses at first and
started going off about the 144thousand deal... I love Jersey.
ALEXIS
IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON WEDNESDAYYYY!!!!!!! She had her interview
yesterday and we are all so excited!!! She is literally just an angel.
She spent all Saturday
night practicing the baptismal questions, and then bought herself a
white dress for her baptism! haha she is adorable, and we are so
excited. In fact, the mission president's wife, Sister Taggart invited
her and us over for lunch yesterday after church. It was awesome, but I
was almost scared out of my mind.... but it was good. :)
We went to the Trunk or Treat for a few minutes on Saturday
night, and HOLY GOODNESS!!!!! This ward goes all out!!! everyone was
dressed up and the trunks were ALL SORTS of decked out!!!! It was the
coolest trunk or treat I have ever seen with my eyeballs! Honestly, you
have all got to step it up this year with your Halloween parties,
because my ward here in NJ has definitely got you all beat!!! I mean our
Bishop brought a tow truck!! One of the trunks basically had a pool of
water with alligators swimming in it. It was amazing. I wish I could
have taken pictures of everything and everyone there, but that would
have been weird...
Also, we did a Family
History booth at a little street fair thing they do here called Bottle
Hill Day. It was really fun and we had a ton of success! We were able to
get about 37 packets to deliver to people who want to know more about
their Family History! Even though we weren't allowed to proselyte at the
booth, we are praying that it will bring just as much talk about Jesus
Christ when we deliver them! I am so excited!
I
have this theory here on my mission that since I am here on the Lord's
time, and since He is the Master Planner, that He has every lesson of
every day of every week of my mission planned out perfectly the way
that He wants it to go. The way I know if I am doing what He wants me to
do is if I see miracles happening, and things working out and the
Spirit guiding me where to go, what to do, what to say, and who to talk
to. Those things don't necessarily result in success number wise, but
they result in a successful missionary. If I am obedient to the
promptings of the Spirit, I will find success. I have even felt this in
lessons when I open my mouth and let Him work through me. And I am SO
SO SO thankful for that, because there is no protein whey in history
that I could find that kind of success by my own power and plans and
works. That's why we have a loving Heavenly Father! :)
Anyways,
I am sorry I took up like half of your life telling you about all this
stuff haha, but thank you so much for all of your prayers and support
and attractiveness. Know that I am praying for you too! Love you a
TON!!!!
Sister Baine
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