Dear Family and Friends,
This week has been full of tender mercies and miracles from the Lord. I love how we worship a "fourth watch" kind of God. The last few weeks have felt like the area was slipping through our fingers with everyone dropping us and pushing their baptisms back and just falling off the face of the earth. Then after our many prayers and pleading to Heavenly Father for blessings, He has definitely blessed us. Did I ever tell you what Chill Night is? Chill Night happens once a week on Thursday nights at the Institute building, and there’s good food and mingling and then a message about Christ at the end by the Stake Presidency. It’s a GREAT finding tool, so us and the Elders are there each week and some weeks are more successful than others. Last week was GREAT! One of our investigators came and brought his whole apartment with him! And another one came and brought her non member roommate who we taught straight afterwards and the next day and put her on date for baptism. And we just made contact with a few other non members. It was very good!
Also funny story for the week. So we went to knock on this house that we knew was a YSA house and we rode on our bikes. We weren’t sure if the front or back door was the main used door so we rode around the back to see but it didn’t look correct. We saw that there were no cars and no lights on so we thought no one was in. We wanted to be diligent and try anyway so we just stayed on our bikes and awkwardly knocked on the window hahahah. We were counting down from like ten so we could get away and get knocking in places where people actually are. As luck would have it, the door opened. Hahaha we were awkwardly sitting there on our bikes and had to awkwardly jump off, trying not to show everyone our underwear under our skirts, and apologize that we hadn't thought anyone was in hahaha. OF COURSE SHE TURNS OUT TO BE THE MOST GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR ANYONE COULD HOPE FOR. She immediately invited us in. She is from Conneticuit and has had the roughest life ever. She has no family and is out here alone and listened to our message of the restoration and said "God sent you to me today" and that she is so excited to read the Book of Mormon. Since then we have seen her every day! She comes to the VC on the days we can’t go to her home. She accepted a baptismal date for three weeks time! One day I will tell you all about her life cos its a bit sensitive for an email but she was a huge blessing from the Lord. The moment we left her house we looked at each other and freaked out! We both feel like we've known her forever and it just reminds me of the blessing Dad gave me before my mission. I love her deeply and am so excited for her journey to begin. She is happy that she will be getting a ward family :) Our Ward Mission leader CJ came with us to the lesson and we both immediately saw that they will probs get married. Haha they fit each other so well and we are calling it right now!
We also found another CHINESE girl to teach! She is really cute and accepted a baptismal date for November too. Things really are picking up. She is J's roommate. We are slowly making our way around the whole apartment haha. WE LOVE OUR CHINESE INVESTIGATORS. They are teaching us Chinese words and how to say their Chinese names. They crack up whenever we try because we are all so horrible at it haha. But we are all best friends with them now and we defintiely have plans to visit them in Hong Kong and China after our missions! I hope you can meet them when you come and pick me up!
Our investigator on the football team is doing very well!! He was Most Valuable Player of the game they played and won on Saturday, their homecoming game, but then he partied all night and was hungover all Sunday afternoon so couldn’t make it to 1pm Church!!!! We told him that God blessed him to play well and he repays him by getting drunk and not going to Church, but he told us that he felt God answer his prayers in the week when he was trying to download his homework and it said it would take 2 hours and it needed to be in within 1 hour so he freaked out and prayed and felt a still small voice tell him to check the monitor and he did and realized he was uploading the whole computer and not just one file!! He said he immediately thought “I can’t wait to tell the Sisters! They will be so happy!” It’s so great that he had an answer to a prayer. He's a good kid! He is doing really well.
We got a new art exhibit at the VC about Hawn's Mill massacre. There are a lot of misconceptions that were set straight to us by Glen Rawson from BYUTV. It’s hard to give tours because there are a lot of horrible stories so it is hard to make it faith promoting haha! But I had a cool experience yesterday, a man from Georgia came into the VC with the strongest accent ever. He told us he was a convert of 5 years from the Baptist faith to Mormon and I just had a thought that we needed to show him God's Plan for His Family. We took him in there and at the end he was crying and he said “You have no idea how much that means to me. I have a 1 year old daughter who is incredibly sick and will probably die soon, and this is so true!" So even though he was a member it showed me how Heavenly Father still looks out for us and knows what we need to get us through hard times. He bore such a powerful testimony and he told us to always remember what we preach when life gets hard because it's all true and we never know what life will throw at us. I learned a lot from him and knew I was supposed to meet him. It was a tender moment.
ALSO we had this family come in for Family Home Evening who told us their daughter was serving at Temple Square. I asked their name and they said she is Sister Lytle!!! I told them about you meeting her, and they said that they remembered me from a year ago when I first gave them a tour!!! Haha we had hugs and pictures and they invited us over for dinner. IT WAS DELICIOUS and they are a great family. What a tender mercy :) I like them a lot.
We were riding our bikes down to campus and these two boys in suits who looked strangely like Elders were knocking doors. They turned towards us and didn’t have name tags on so they must have been Jehovah's Witnesses. They shouted to us “Hello ladies, how are you?" and we said “Good thanks!" and continued riding, we didn’t stop to talk to them and they said “Are you having more success than we are?" and we just said “Yep" and smiled hahahahah and they laughed and we were like, what just happened?!?! We just told JW's that we are having more success than they are hahaha! Only in the life of a missionary!!!
ALSO we were studying and I saw this black spider on the wall. I didn’t want to stop studying so I waited til the end of studies when we went and saw that it was black with a red hourlgass on it!! A BLACK WIDOWWWWWWW!!!!!! We freaked out and decided the only thing to do would be to call President Center. JUST KIDDING we called the Senior Elder who lives next door and he came and got it for us!! So scary!
OK I gotta go!! I LOVE YOU ALL!! PDAY ON TUESDAY NEXT WEEK!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Sister Nicholls
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