Hey everyone :) we had another great week in Phelan!
It was full of miracles and it was just really cool to see how the spirit has been guiding us here.
I truly believe that the Lord has been shaping me my whole mission so i could come and help the work here. And the work here is really hastening so im excited to be a part of it :)
It was also fun this week because I got to see a lot of people i have previously served with, members and missionaries. On Tuesday sister Haven's and I had to go into Hesperia and get our tire fixed and while there i ran into Sister Johnson and some other people that i have served with. Then on Wednesday I got to go back to Mesa Linda for exchanges! It was sooo cool to be back almost a year later. I didn't think much would have changed, but it felt like a lot had. It was really fun to be able to drive down the streets and just think things like "Oh that's where we met so and so" and "this is where we would ride our bikes" and things like that. But the best part was being able to go back and see some of the people i had taught and be able to introduce them to the missionaries now. I was surprised by how many of the people actually remembered me and how they felt like we were still friends. It was exciting because i think it was a little taste of what doing missionary work at home will be like. Basically it was awesome!
Like i said though this week was FULL of miracles.
Some were small things like we were able to find a house or that we were able to get a hold of people, but there were big ones too. One of which is that our investigator Quit smoking, and drinking Alcohol and Coffee! It was a HUGE step for her, but its so exciting to see how much happier she is and how much more the spirit is with her. I love her, and it was fun this week, sister Haven's and i were talking and its just amazing to see how the people you teach just become part of your family.
Another Miracle we saw was that we were able to stop by a less active member's house that sister Havens had never tried and when we went to his home, his Mother-in-law answered the door. We talked to her for little bit and after a few minutes were strongly prompted that we needed to testify of God's love for her. We could then tell that she was fighting back tears and we told her that God had sent us to her son's house that day to tell her that god loved her. She then told us that the night before she had prayed for God to show her a sign that he was mindful of her. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS!!!
To go along with that statement, the last miracle i will tell you about is that God answered Our prayers this week. Of course we always pray to be able to follow the spirit, but we made sure this week that we specifically prayed to find new people to teach. After our first day of these prayers, Sister Havens and I found a less active member who requested to go through the lessons with us. We were pumped, but we had been wanting to find a new investigator. So after discussion we realized we needed to pray specifically needed investigators to teach. That Day God lead us to 2 new people we will hopefully start teaching :) again...Gad answers our prayers :)
I was going to end on that miracle, but i think it needs to be noted that another miracle happened this week. One of the Redd boys finally got married! I think that was the biggest miracle of all ;) Congratulations Taylor and Catherine!
Lastly this Saturday was Sister Haven's Birthday, and in celebration we did a service project at a place called El Mirage. Its this HUMUNGO dried lake bed, so we from 7-12 were digging up plants our there. It was really cool though because they use the lake bed for all kinda of stuff (land car racing, parasail car things, flying planes, pretty much anything you could think of) and we got to see a lot of it. The best part though was that they let us drive our cars down there and our zone leaders let us go as fast as we wanted! haha I dont know if thats okay, but it was SUPER fun!
Anyways it was a great week!
I love you all, thank you for everything :)
Sister Becca Redd
ps. i found my camera :)
and will upload a picture or two of what phelan looks like :)
If they upload in the right order, the first is one of what the dried lake bed looks like a bad road in Phelan, then what the good roads in Phelan are like :)
sorry all the pictures are just of dirt...that's all that's our here :)
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