It's So Worth It!!!

Dear Friends and Family,

Hope y'all had a great week. We had a fabulous week here in Pinnacle Mountain! Miracles and more miracles! The first miracle of the week was we were not on bikes! Yay! They switched our car share around and now instead of losing our car every fourth week we lose it every seventh week. And in order for everything to work we have to keep the car for three more weeks. So even though we really wanted to walk this week we took one for the team and are still in a car :) The week got better from there.

On Tuesday we taught a husband and wife named Cory and Ashley. They let us right in and we hit it off right away. We started explaining our purpose a little bit and asking a few questions when Cory told us that both he and Ashley, even though they grew up attending a church, they don't really know what to believe anymore and would love to be taught by us. This never happens. Sister Hosea and I were so excited and went right into teaching about the restoration. They were both very receptive and are excited to learn more.

Wednesday evening we got hit by an ice storm and so we were snowed in all day on Thursday. I've lost track of how many snows days we have had in the past three weeks but we were running out of things to keep us entertained so Sister Hosea and I had to find creative ways to entertain ourselves. This led to us making about 15 music videos which consist of us dancing around our bathroom to mission approved songs. We have also watched the movie Legacy about 10 times. 

 

By Friday the snow had all melted and we were back to work. Saturday we had a SUPER cool experience with an investigator named Jenny. Jenny is from China and has been in America less than a year and so she doesn't speak a lot of English. She was introduced to the Church by her friend Sister Lee, who is in the ward and who is also Chinese and also doesn't speak much English. We had an appointment to teach Jenny Saturday and I was a little nervous about how we were going to be able to overcome the language barrier and be able to teach her. Sister Hosea and I used a combination of Google translate and Sister Lee to communicate with Jenny. I was praying so hard that the Spirit would be there to help teach her and help her understand. It was amazing. Even though Sister Hosea and I didn't say much the Spirit was there so strong. We went back and forth typing in questions and statements into Google and then letting Jenny read and nod if she understood. At the end we, Sister Hosea and I, both felt very prompted to show the video "because of him" (which is a super awesome video that I highly recommend). We were able to find it in Chinese and so Jenny could understand. It was amazing to me how strong I could feel the spirit watching the video even though I couldn't understand what was being said. After the video Sister Hosea invited Jenny to be baptized and she said "yes, yes, yes!" It was such a cool experience. 

 

Such a good week! These week make all the really cold and long and hard week so worth it! I love being a missionary!

As always thank you for all that y'all do!

Love

Sister Aase