I AM a missionary lol This place is really interesting though...I love love love the people and the ward but we don't have any investigators! we almost had one (this dry Mormon and he cancelled on us and the people who said they'd come to church didn't show up lol we're still working though. You asked me though to share any spiritual experiences and I had a great one (there's lots but not good stories) a couple days ago...So once upon a time we we texting a lady in our ward about a potential investigator and then she sent us a text that she meant to send to someone else. We found out that the dog of the family we were going to have dinner with that night had been put down that morning. I got all sad for them cause, we all know I'm the crazy dog lady. We asked if there was anything we could do for this family, and this person actually gave us an idea! (You know how you always ask if you can help but no one lets you do anything for them and are just like "oh no, we're fine") She asks if one of us is an artist, so I tell her I kind of am, and she asks if I could draw their dog for them, and make it specifically for the 13 year old daughter in the family. She gave me all sorts of ideas to make it special for her and so I pen this picture for the girl with a tree and her standing with her brother and their dog. I was super focused on this drawing for a while just praying to make it special and right. I couldn't remember what these kids looked like for the life of me, so I just guessed....also I had never seen the dog before, so I made him up to. Meeting them, I was excited to see the kids WERE blond and blue-eyed and looked really similar to my little sketch, and after dinner and the song we sang (Sister Sacher and I love to sing hymns for our message) I gave this girl the picture. They all freaked right out! The dog looked just like theirs. Like same black scraggly fur and size and ears and I even drew him kind of standing on his hind legs in excitement, so they show my a video of how this dog always stood up and danced around. It was amazing, I really know that by letting myself focus on making this picture important, that the Spirit drew it through me. So....yeah, that the best so far!
Thanks for the advice on the Spirit too. I learned a great analogy at the MTC, where the Spirit works a lot like the stove.It can be turned on really high, making the soup boil and stuff, but it can't stay on that level all the time. It has to be turned down to a simmer more often than not, but that doesn't mean that it's off or that it isn't cooking the soup. Spirit can still be there even if he isn't screaming at you. It should usually feel natural right? But when I don't know what He's telling me, I won't lose faith(:
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