We Found Another Friend! :)‏

This week was so fun!! And we saw a miracle this week! It was the best!

 

So Friday, we spent 3 hours sitting in the house planning for our whole week. It's kind of a pain but it is necessary to get done. So it's well worth it! We were looking through the list of members to see who we could visit, we decided on a family and we're like, "Okay, ya sounds good!" So we went on with our day! That same night we get a call from a random number. I answered and turns out it was the same family that we had planned to go visit! He called and just told us that he had just recently moved back and needed some spiritual uplifting and was told to call us! So we set an appointment up to go visit him/the family the next day in the evening. That next day we called the Horans so that they could go with us and let me tell you, I am soo grateful that they came with us!

 

We pulled up to this old looking house, it was kinda creepy looking. And we walked up and the man was there and he's like, "Oh, I've been waiting for you guys!! Come meet everyone!!" He took us back behind like, two houses and there is a group of people there and he starts introducing us to everyone. I think they were all friends...I have no clue...but then one of his friends is like "Come inside! Come inside! Let me give you tour of the house!" Turns out his house has a lot of ancient stuff in there! They had stuff from about 1820's and from the 1920's! It was crazy! Apparently, he does reenactments of the Civil War. So he has all this stuff. He also has those big huge dresses with the hoops and told us that we can come back whenever and try them on! Haha, that'd be fun! He showed me a Victrola and I got to play it!! It was super cool!! It didn't need electricity or anything! I felt really cool, haha! :P Then Sister McArthur got to play Abraham's Lincoln funeral song! Apparently, it was an original. Ya...it was really cool. So we spent all this time going through his house and we're like, "Oh, we gotta go..." and he's like, "No wait! Let me show you a Book of Mormon one of the Elder's found in my book case!" So we went over and he had a Book of Mormon from the 1920's! It was really cool and inside of it, there was a pamphlet of Joseph Smith and some church information! It was super cool!

 

On a more spiritual note, last Monday we were on exchanges. I was with Sister Olson and we went out to knock on doors. We knocked on this one door, it was our last door, and this lady opened it and just started talking to us. Her name is Sandy and she was super kind to us! We set a return appointment, which was yesterday. We went over yesterday and we were super late for our appointment! :(  It was bad! So we went and knocked on her door, and no one was answering. We called her and no answer. So finally we decided to just leave a note and go. We were getting into the car, and right as I was about to shut the door, I looked and Sandy was walking across the street! She came up to us and was told us that she had been waiting for us and was about to call us! So we went into her house and just started to get to know her.

 

She said that she was confused about Jesus, God and The Spirit because she didn't know if they were separate people or what was the deal there. So, we explained the Godhead and it cleared up her question. Then, she had told us that she didn't know how to read the Bible because there are so many different bibles and they said different things. So, we explained the Book of Mormon to her. And then she was telling us that she was terrified of death! So, we taught her the plan of salvation! It was such an amazing lesson! It was so filled with the spirit and it was incredible being able to answer questions of the soul! And THEN, about half way through the lesson she tells us that her fiance is LDS and she didn't even know that he was LDS!! When she told him that we were coming over, he just told her to not offer us coffee or dark drinks, and then he told her that he was LDS! How crazy is that!?

It was such an incredible experience to find someone that is soo ready! She is so willing to learn and is soo ready! I'm so thankful for all the prayers that have been said! There is such a great power with prayer!

I love teaching people! I love being a missionary and teaching others what brought me so much happiness! It's incredible to think that I'm doing the Lord's work, that He trusts me enough to teach His children. I absolutely love being a missionary!

 

Much love!

-Hermana Ramos-Escobar

(A/N: Just in case you're unsure what a Victrola is (just like I was unsure) here are some examples of what they are! :D )