Week 35: Bike Accidents, Miracles, and Lots of Fun

HELLO FAMILY! :) Oh the sun is shining..well was shining..haha and there is just happiness in the air. How is everyone doing?

Before you guys start freaking out..I didn't get in a bike accident...but sadly Zuster Taylor did so I guess you can freak out a little bit;) haha. It was actually kinda funny because we were going to get our bikes and we thought..oh maybe we should take the bus today..nah..we'll save the church money and just take our bikes. We were are riding and I don't really know what happened but somehow Zuster Taylor's wheel got turned and she ended up crashing into the ground..Luckly she didn't get too hurt..just cuts and bruses. She is a trooper so that's good. I guess we should have listened to the spirit and taken the bus..haha oh well.

One day we were not feeling motivated at all to do missionary work but of course we pumped ourselves up and went out and did the Lord's work..and MAN did he bless us. WE ended up finding two referrals for some other place and then three solid potentials for us. We set up appts to meet up with two of them the next day and the other we will call today. I was just amazing to see the Lord blessing us and showing us that if we do HIS work, he will bless us. He wants us to succeed we just have to ACT. We also got a new investigator this week! Her name is Wilma and she is an older lady from South Africa. SHE IS HILARIOUS! She pretty much told us her life story about why she lives in the house she lives in and everything. Good times. We didn't have much time to actually give our message to her but we sure felt the spirit as we testified the Book of Mormon. She talked for like two hours straight though..haha so funny. We did also meet with Judith again! This time we met with her a lone and it was good. She also ended up telling us her life story..it's sad to hear some things that went on in her life. But now we know how we can help her! She needs to find peace and balance in her life so we are planning on helping her find that! I will let you know how that one goes.

Haha so many funny things happened this week. We threw a surprise birthday party for Elder Hulet at a members house. It was so much fun! And we had really good Mac and Cheese. hahahah we also dropped by a member's house who just got an operation on her knee and she let us in. The second we all kinda got settled she goes 'Look at what they did to me!' and just pulls down her pants and garments! AHHHHHHHH!!! I freaked out inside because I thought she wasn't wearing anything else underneath them..but luckily she was wearing some regular undies. haha She showed us where she was operated and it looked pretty nasty...I am scared that I might now be a good nurse. Maybe I should just work with dead people. ;) haha just kinding y'all.. but maybe not. haha

We helped Sofia move this week...For some reason when people move here they need to gut their whole house...so we were pulling up flooring and just putting it in the trash. It was pretty dirty..so it was good that we were there to help out. Her kids are soo cute too. I was playing zombies with them and now they just want to play zombies everytime they see me. It was good stuff.

We found a lady on the bus this week but the only information that we got from her was that she worked at this driving school on saturdays...haha so on saturday we went to the driving school and sure enough, she was there! We had a really good talk with her about the restoration. Her name is Asha and she is from Ethiopia. We hopefully will be teaching her next weekend. Cool stuff. After talking with her we went and sung for Zr Van Vliet who is the sister who has a brain tumor and is slowing dying. I love the spirit that I feel there. It is just amazing. It's sad to see her getting worse and worse through the days..At lease we know what we will see her again and that she will be so much happier after this life. She is a great example of enduring to the end.

So quick story...We were exchanging so we were taking the train and as we were walking down the stairs my lovely companion who is sooo observant saw this lady who needed help with her luggage. So we helped her and she ended up being from Mexico but had just gotten married to a Dutchman and now they are moving to Switzerland...anyways. She loved our help and called us angels. We gave her the info for the church and sent her on her way. We will probably never know what happens in her life but we know that we touched her heart and planted a seed. YA! Way to be Sister Taylor.

So many more things happened..I need to catch up on my journal writing so that I can tell you more when I get home. I have really grown to love the Book of Mormon while out here. One day I will understand all of it (aka the Isaiah chapters) but for now I am loving every chance I get to read from it. I know that you can receive answers to your prayers if you study and read in the scriptures. They will bless your life. Here is some other good stuff: Joshua 24:15 - As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I feel like this theme has come up a lot this week. WE as members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints need to choose whom we are going to serve and serve with our heart. You don't need to change you who are, just be you and serve. Do what YOU do, WITH Christ.

There were sooo many good testimonies given on Sunday.  I need to write them down..but I promise I will tell you everything when I get back. But one things I really loved was this Brother gave his testimony and he told a story about how he was on business and was going to church so he took a taxi. The taxi driver dropped him off and said I'll just wait in the parkinglot...then this Brother invited him to church and long story short the taxi driver went in with him. Turns out that one of the speakers was a friend of the taxi driver and the taxi driver was so touched by their reunion that he started investigating the church. The brother (from our war) then said he got a call from the taxi driver a couple of weeks ago saying that he was getting baptized and thanked him for the things he did. SEE EVERYONE, your good examples can make a difference in peoples lives. Through small and simple things, GREAT things come to fast. I know we all can make a huge difference.

LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU A TON! HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!!!!!

Zuster Kohlert