Sprained Ankle and a Bunch of Miracles 9/12/16

Well this week was interesting but awesome all at the same time. As you may have been able to tell from the title of my weekly email I sprained my ankle! Last week on Thursday we did service for a member and helped you do some cleaning before her son comes home from his mission tomorrow! Anyways once we got home and I was changing I looked down and my ankle was two sizes too big. Ok maybe only one size to big. Anwyas I called the mission nurse and she told me I sprained. So we spent Thursday evening at the church doing any contacting through Facebook and doing some more planning for the week. In the end we had a miracle. We got a hold of one of our investigators who is super closed to being baptized and found more information on how to help her progress towards baptism. In the end it was a great blessing that we had to stay in to ice my sprained ankle.

This week as well we moved our Relief Society President into her new house. Man it felt great to do some good hard working labor. It was a little sad that none of the men would let us Sisters help with any of the big stuff so there were times we just jumped in and helped. I may be a women but I have a lot more strength then you think I do. The other fun part was their new house has a tree house. So of course the missionaries, aka the elders, the Martinos, and ourselves, along with our branch president were the first ones to the house. It was funny because as soon as we were out of the car and one person saw the tree house we were all running. We got up there and took some pictures. One of the Elders said it was like being in National Treasures. The tree house was suspended by two wire cords from the trees so when you walked around the whole tree house moved. So we had to be careful not to all stand on one side of the tree house. Later when our Relief Society President got there she told everyone not to go on the tree house. Oops. Oh well. We had fun!

Our last fun adventure would have to be yesterday. We were getting tired of taking our car everywhere and wanted to do something different. So I had the thought to walk. Our down town isn't too far from our apartment so we walked. We walked through town talking to anyone and everyone on the street. Then we headed down a side road that goes past the church and back into a neighborhood. So we started walking to a less actives house. We knocked doors and talked to people along the way. The night sky was beautiful and we had fun doing something slightly different for a change. Plus we got some good exercise in. In total we walked about four miles yesterday in the afternoon alone. I am grateful we took a more scenic route.

Funny but miracle story. We were out knocking doors and we talked to this Hispanic, who is so prepared to hear the gospel. She said she has been looking for God for a little while now and she is excited to hear what we have to say. The funny part is we were getting ready to leave and her son was holding his little sister. He pointed at her nose and said boogers. His mom looked at him and told him "They are here to preach the word of God not for funnies." It was so cute and great! Hopefully this week we will see her more and start making progress with her! I am so excited! Then later on in the week we found another person who we talked to who has so much potential.

As well this week we had a zone conference which was really good. Hermana Johnston, and I sung a song with two other sister missionaries, Hermana Spencer from the CCM and her trainee Hermana Spackman! It was super fun! The important part was what I learned at the conference. The main focus was becoming better personally. I by no means am perfect but I know that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the process of repentance I some day can stand before my God guiltless. I hope that we each can strive to find ways to become better people and to use the atonement to it's fullest! I love this gospel with all my heart and I know my Savior lives! I love y'all and I hope y'all have a fantastic week!

Con Amor
Hermana Ashford