P-days are the best. But we don't have enough time for everything we want to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, are you ready to hear about the amazing miracles of this week??? Because they're. . . amazing. Ahem! So. . . we more than doubled our teaching pool. And it wasn't exactly small to begin with. Yeah. 10 new investigators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In one week. That's CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we went from 7 investigators to 17. Absolutely nuts. And really really REALLY cool to watch the process. :) :) :) :) I'm a little overwhelmed. . . Heavenly Father is entrusting us with a lot of his children. But what a blessing!!!!!!!
6 of these new investigators come from the same home! Maria is the head of the house, and she has a combination of children, grandchildren and a niece or something like that to make up the other 5. All of them are kids. :) :) :) Super cute! Jose, Arianna, Kiara, Rosa, and Nathan. The girls wanted to record me praying so they could keep it! Hahaha! We taught them the first part of the Restoration, and we can't wait to go back and teach them the rest!
Dwight is another investigator from some obscure island in the Caribbean. I think he's my favorite. :D He's a big black guy with long braided black hair. He's dating a woman in our ward named Melissa. And Melissa's DAUGHTER Mikaela is already one of our investigators. So we were teaching Mikaela (she's 9) a cute way to remember all the 10 commandments, and he meandered in and sat down to join us! Suh-weet! And then he started asking questions. All SORTS of them! We were trying to keep on top of them and remember all the answers and I just had a thought, "You know, this isn't what he's really asking. He needs to know about modern-day revelation." So I opened my mouth and explained a little about the Book of Mormon, then about having a living prophet on the Earth today. You should have SEEN his expression when he heard that news! He pulled out a notebook and scribbled down Thomas S. Monson's name! :) :) :) He said it made sense, but he was still burning with questions! So Sister Platt offered to come back just for him to answer those questions, and he snatched the opportunity. He didn't want to interrupt Mikaela's lesson, but the rest of the time he sat there writing down questions. I LOVE IT! I can't wait!
Donna was a hand-off from the sisters in Scituate. I like her. She's older with red, spiky hair. She's interested in learning for educational purposes, but is digging in her heels for anything else. We'll see if the Spirit will touch her heart.
Melissa was definitely inspired. (Different Melissa.) We started talking to her on the street. She's soooo sweet. She has been in a church ONCE and doesn't know anything about God and really wants to now. She's curious but shy about it. We testified that God knows and loves her and set up an appointment to come back. She couldn't stop smiling. :) :) I'm getting better at talking to random people.
We had dinner with a member who was ex-communicated. She's classy and really wanting to get her life back on track, and she has a daughter that is 9 as well. She wants to get baptized. So we're on it. :) :) :) She and I are buddies. I taught her how to play Cat's Cradle and I think I might have gotten her a liiiiiitle obsessed. :D
Someone who has been investigating for over a year got baptized yesterday! Her name is Lilian! her husband was able to baptize her, and it was the sweetest thing to witness. I totally teared up. So happy for them! :) Oh, I also spoke in Sacrament meeting. And cried like, the whole time. Awesome. :P
I'm aaaaalways tired! But it's a satisfying kind of tired, so it's okay. I hit the pillow exhausted every night and completely out of steam. There are lots of things between all these miracles that are hard, like homesickness or rejections. Still, Heavenly Father is continually outweighing the bad with the good. It's been neat. :)
The Elders we work with are great, as are the Senior missionaries. They keep me laughing! Sister Platt is super cool! We laugh a lot, too. Mostly about how OPPOSITE we are. But instead of clashing, we balance. :D
Don't forget my new address in Rhode Island! Miss you all!!! Thanks for the updates!
<3,
Sister Merkley
MBM Missionary
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