This last week was phenomenal!! We
found more people who have been carefully prepared to receive the gospel and
we´re so happy!
In the last 2 and a half weeks we
have found 19 people to teach! I can´t begin to explain how much of a heaven
sent miracle that is. The Lord needed to try our faith to see if we would
indeed be faithful in all things before he could trust us with some of these
elect children. After 6 weeks of finding absolutely no one and coming home
absolutely exhausted every single day the Lord has finally decided that we can
be trusted and is leading us to people who are ready for the gospel!
We have found someone new to teach almost
every single day for the past week or two! It´s incredible! I can´t begin to
describe what joy it brings me! It´s still hard out here. People still yell at
us every day and tell us what a waste of space we are but I could care less
because we´re bringing people to Christ! Things are finally coming together
here. I know it has to do a lot with all of the prayers from
home. Thank you to each and every one of you who has kept my companion and I in
your prayers. You are playing a huge part in the work of the Lord over here in Spain.
Without your prayers I don´t know if we would be finding as many people to
teach. Thank you!
So earlier my companion
and I were planning a Halloween party for our branch. After talking about Halloween
for so long it´s only natural that you have the urge to scare someone. So
that´s what we spent the night doing - scaring each other. My Companion hid
in our shower that night and just about gave me a heart attack. I vowed to get
revenge on her and she just laughed thinking nothing of it.
The next night, night while she was
brushing her teeth I set up my bed so it looked like I was already asleep in
it. I put pillows and towels under the sheets to make it look like I was in it.
So she finishes brushing her teeth, comes into our room, says her
prayers, and turns out the light thinking that I’m already asleep. What she
didn´t know is that I was in the closet. I waited for about 5 minutes in the
closet and then began to tap on the door. I continued to scratch and tap the
closet door until she sat up and said ¨what is going on?!?!¨ She
flipped on the lights really quickly to see what was happening but found
nothing wrong. Thinking I was still asleep she turned the lights back off and
tried to go back to bed. Again, I began to scratch and tap the door until she
tried to wake me up, or wake up what she thought was me. She screamed when she
realized that I wasn´t under the covers and then screamed again when I threw
open the closet and asked her why she was still up. We both fell to the floor
laughing! We stayed up WAY too late that night laughing. Man, I love this
companionship!
My sweet companion sprained her
ankle this morning so we´ve been working on getting that fixed. It´s just lucky
that I’m going into physical therapy for my career. I´ve worked with quite a
lot of sprained ankles so it´s not a problem at all. We´ve got her all bandaged
up and good to go.
Over the past 7 months I’ve learned
a LOT. One of the things that has been carved into my heart is that all good
things come with time and effort. I truly know that now. Things are going
great! I love this work with all of my heart, mind, and soul!
Come what may and love it!!!!
Hermana Israelsen
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