Look for the tender mercies in you life...

Well i really didn't know if i was going to have anything great to write about this week because, i feel like everything is the same all the time... i do the same thing over and over, just in a different part of this town... Visit less actives that are never home, knock on doors that are never receptive, schedule appointments that always fall through. When that phone rings and it's the investigator on the other end my mind automatically goes to... "well there goes that appointment" and sure enough.... they cancel. I guess maybe i need to hope that maybe they are just calling to confirm the appointment... ha ha right! it's hard to have hope when everyone of them turns out to be the same! Rejection after rejection! I realized this wasn't going to be easy... but week after week of what seems to be failure really starts to ware on me! That is how this week started, and...well... ended too, but Heavenly Father showed me some tender mercies for not giving up and calling it quits at night when our appointments fall through. 

Story time!

So to set the back ground for this story...Sis. Reese and i contacted into this 19 yr old girl named Sunshine (very unique name) super sweet and super soft spoken she said that her mom had learned from the missionaries but told them not to come back after awhile but Sunshine still wanted to learn but she didn't know how to get a hold of the missionaries... we were so excited! we invited her to conference that weekend, but when we called her again, her phone was disconnected... we tried for a couple weeks after that and didn't get anything, so we let it go for a while. So on Tuesday night we were visiting teaching with some of the ladies in the ward, they went over to visit with one of their less active ladies that they teach. We got to know this lady and she is so neat i just love her, then she told us that she had a god-daughter that wants to get baptized but she didn't know how to go about it!  So she told her that she needed to talk to the missionaries and learn about baptism and what it means to be baptized etc... so she already wants to get baptized, she just needs the lessons... But the story gets better! So we are talking and i ask, "what is her name" and she says "Sunshine, she is 19" My mouth about dropped open... she said "yes that is her real name" i agreed that it was a unique name, but a name i had heard before! "I know your god-daughter!" i said. "is she super soft spoken"  "yes"  OH MY WHAT! how awesome is that! Wow tender mercy of the lord... not only has he prepared someone for us to teach, but he he has given us another chance with sunshine! We are meeting with her tomorrow! i can hardly wait to meet her again and marvel  in the awesomeness of the circumstance! Ha Ha

Next experience....

So we are working with an excommunicated member (on the road back) and she is married to a non member that has some very strong feelings about Mormons. we were talking with her at church on Sunday and I had been afraid to ask before, but i finally asked her " so... do you have to retake the missionary lessons, and when can you start taking them?" she was like.... "ya know... im not really sure!" we finished talking to her and she took off... we met up with her again about 30 mins later and she cam walking over with the bishop and she said "bishop said we are good to go with the missionary lessons!" HOW GREAT IS THAT! I am so proud of her she wants this so bad and she is working so hard to get there despite her husbands opinions! I think her husband will come around eventually though. We went over there and he sat in  the room the entire time we were talking to her, he was on  the computer the whole time, but i know he was listening. he is a great guy though ive talked with him and he is friendly! he just doesn't agree with the the Joseph Smith story...  

How bout another....

We were tracting and we came to the end of the street and i looked at one house and said lets knock that one... and sister cefalo picked one to... a bright turquoise one with black shutters... she said... i like the color of that one... lest knock it... so we knocked her pick first... i told her since it was her pick that she was gonna take the lead at the door....the lady answered the door and s. cefalo froze... ha ha oh i remember those days, so i stepped in... i asked the lady if we could come in and pray with her and leave the saviors peace and blessing on her home... she was right in the middle of a timed test, but she still let us in and i surprised s. cefalo and told her that she was going to say the prayer.. and she did awesome! the spirit was so strong, i know the lady felt something. i bore a quick but powerful testimony about prophets and then we asked if we could come back and she said YES! it was one of those appointments that fell through, but it was still a neat miracle! :) 

We finally got in with one of the LA (less active) families that we have been trying to get in with for the past 3 months! and they are such a neat family. we are going to invite their oldest daughter to come with us on a team up with sunshine! yay

Well family it's been a pretty good week when i stop to think about it... sometimes it is hard to see  the lords hand in our lives, but if we really stop and look... we will ALWAYS find that he does indeed have his hand in every aspect of our lives. I continue to find reasons to love this work...

family i love y'all so much i hop yalls week is going well...

Look for the tender mercies in you life... 

have a blessed week

love,     

Sister Dannika Nielsen