Conference Is So Awesome!!!

 To start off with we were able to watch the first session of General Conference with a less active. Unfortunately, his girlfriend was really sick. But our awesome less active, who really needs to be active, really loved Elder Perry's talk on marriage and the family life! We have had the opportunity to teach a new investigator this week. He is so awesome! We met with him on Friday and Monday. And yesterday he told us that he had a ton of questions for us. We cleared up some of the questions that he had found on the internet about the Mormon religion. But we also found out that he is soaking up everything about the church. He has even watched the one hour Joseph Smith:The prophet of the Restoration!!! And he just loved it. He keeps telling us that he is taking small steps, but in my eyes he is just leaping closer to our Heavenly Father and Christ!

           A mini miracle that happened after interviews this past Thursday. We received a phone call from, who we think is our land lord, informing us that she would like to show our apartment to a couple the next day. We scheduled for a time and quickly found out that it conflicted with our appointment with our new investigator. So we needed to inform him because we didn't have his phone number. I was feeling pretty good as soon as we got back home. So we wanted to start knocking an area close to our new investigator and then go over to change the appointment. We got to our knocking place and immediately found out that it was buzz boxed shut. It was just a couple minutes before 7, which 7 is normally when this complex locked up. We realized that the possibility of our investigators complex would be locked up, seeming that it was on the same buzz box system. We decided it couldn't hurt to try and see.

       We walked over and found out that the door was still unlocked! We were able to re-schedule the appointment and we decided to start knocking the rest of that section of the complex. We walked down the flight of stairs to the next door to knock on. We knocked on the door and a young woman answered. We used the initiative and invited her to watch the #becausehelives video. We asked if we could come back and tell her more. She was very happy and said yes! We made our way out the door and found the door to the complex to be locked! The buzz boxes had just turned on. 

          In my eyes it couldn't have been more perfectly timed!!!  The fact that we scheduled for the wrong time that conflicted with another appointment. Than having the need to change our appointment with our investigator. Going over to find out that the complex next to his was locked up. But ironically finding the investigators section to be un-locked and opened. And the fact of knocking on the 1st door to find the young woman home and able to share the initiative with her!! I really feel like this was a manifestation from Heaven! Coincidences just don't exist in missionary work. I have a strong testimony in that!'

        Hope everyone enjoyed conference! Have an amazing week and thanks for all that you do! Keep serving and helping!

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