Christina

March 24, 2014

Hola everyone,

     This week has been pretty interesting. My back pain came back and I have to go back to the hospital again to get it fixed. I hope this time it fixes the disk for good. Not very fun. Transfers are this Wednesday and sister Baird is leaving which means I am getting a new companion. We went to a members house this week to teach an FHE and afterwards sister Baird could not find the car keys for half an hour and we didn't get home until super late. We visited a less active family who the missionaries have been working with for a long time and we talked to them about going back to the temple and getting worthy again. We talked about what would be holding them back and she brought up a lot of concerns she had and we were able to address them all and now they are getting ready to go back to the temple after 20 years. 

     The Allens son Brackon got baptized on Saturday and on sunday they blessed their newborn baby Paxton. I seriously love this family. They are so amazing and are going to be moving to Utah/ Idaho. So I will get to go see them quite a bit after the mission. I spoke in sacrament this sunday and spoke on the Atonement and Missionary work and how the Lord helps lift us up and expects in return for us to turn to others and help them up. One of the less actives came up to me afterwards and said that the talk was just what he needed to hear and now he is meeting with the missionaries again. 

     The last and most exciting thing that happened this week is we met Christina.On tuesday we felt impressed to finish the ward missionary binders and get them to the ward missionaries that night at the meeting. Later that night we were at ward correlation meeting when this lady comes into the church in tears. Her car had been having problems and died just as she pulled into the church parking lot. Normally the church is locked but it just so happened that as we were going into ward correlation meeting we felt impressed to leave the church door unlocked after we went inside so we followed the prompting and left the door unlocked. When she came in we all stopped our meeting and went out to help her. It just so happened they couldn't get her car to start so they were going to take her to a hotel where she could stay until her car got fixed. It just so happened right as they were about to leave one of the ward missionaries pulled into the parking lot and offered Christina a place to stay for the night. 

     We went over after our meeting and took over the ward missionary binder to sister Hughes and got a chance to talk to Christina about the gospel. We gave her a book of mormon and she told us about part of her life story and was in tears as we were talking to her about the atonement and how it can help her. Everything that night was not a coincidence and even Christina noticed it was not a coincidence that her car stalled and died as soon as she pulled into the parking lot, it was not a coincidence we left the door unlocked, it was not a coincidence that we were all at our meeting right then and started on time, it was not a coincidence that sister Hughes pulled up and offered Christina  a place to stay, it is not a coincidence that we had the ward missionary binders to give out so we could go visit Christina at sister Hughes (not that we needed a reason to stop by and teach Christina) and it is not a coincidence all these things led Christina to the church, a ward missionary who has been through her same situation, and the missionaries who were able to give her a book of mormon and testify that although she has a very sketchy past and has been hurt by a lot of people there is still hope for her.  I love this gospel and I am so grateful that we got to share it with Christina. 

Te amo, 

~Hermana Larissa Johnson