President Anderson shared these wonderful stories in his letter this week…

I love how you as missionaries have humbled yourselves to allow the miracles to happen because of your obedience, even to stay obedient when discouragement says otherwise:

 

“This past week was tough on Monday and Tuesday. Both these days we went harvesting but had no success. We knocked I don’t know how many doors. We couldn’t find nobody to bless. So Wednesday came and just before we left our apartment, we got down on our knees and offered a prayer to ask God where he wanted us to go. We both felt like there was some family just waiting for us… Where? We did not know. So we asked God. We felt prompted to go to the lower part of our area. When we first arrived to the area we felt prompted to go to, we pulled in and said another prayer, asking if this is the place where we needed to be. We both got confirmation that it was the place. The first door we met an amazing family, a family of 6. Those who were old enough, accepted to be baptized. We went to the next door, same thing met another family. After five doors, we had five blessings, with 5 families preparing for baptism. God truly is there and will guide us to the people who are ready.”

 

I love how you as missionaries work with diligence and excitement, which humbles you, as you are obedient in finding souls to invite to Christ:

 

“I have been studying a lot about diligence this week and it’s interesting to see that diligence is a lot more than just working hard-it’s doing it with excitement and with a good attitude that will spread to everyone we contact! We really noticed that this week! Usually as we harvest, we only get a few blessing every street..but on Monday we knocked only about 6 doors, 4 of them answered that we were able to bless, and 3 of them (3 couples) accepted to be baptized with a date! It was the best hour of harvesting I’ve ever had!”

 

I love how you as missionaries give your all in getting souls to Church and when you are at the end of your hopes, God blesses you for your efforts and your faith, even indirect blessings:

 

“Sunday we went to round-up and found no one at home.  We have been struggling so much to get anyone to keep any form of commitment and it has really slowed things down.  My level of commitment was decreasing subconsciously as we continued to face this discouragement.  As we sat in Sacrament meeting I was pondering over what I could do better and I couldn’t help but think I needed to drop my nets and get back to work with my whole heart…  I said a prayer that I could get back on track and it was as if a great storm subsided in my heart.  As I looked back up, an investigator came in and sat down.  She waved to us from across the chapel.  I smiled and said, ‘At least God helped us get one person here.’  Then I turned back to look at the podium and watched another one of our investigators sneak in.  Her arrival was unexpected since we dropped her two weeks ago.  I got back to thinking and said, ‘That is a miracle, now we doubled our investigator attendance.’  As I said that in my mind, two more investigators  walked in and joined us in the overflow.  Doubled again.  I felt God’s love again and knew that He was helping me to keep going.”