I stayed in Red Hill, WITH SISTER TICONG!! YAY!! It's freezing here, Winter is coming!! This transfer we have hopes to go through the ward list, and to find part member families, we have about 600 on our ward list and only about 100 active. It's been a lot of work, but we have seen so many blessings. This one families name kept standing out, and we looked up their address and it's only complete opposite side of our area, it was 30+ min to drive there, but we really felt like we needed to go. When we got our there, there was literally only like this one block of homes and we found the house. The family no longer lived there, but at the door we found a woman who had completely lost hope. She had lost her daughter, husband, son, and grandson to death and was very bitter to the Lord. After we introduced ourselves, she began to say "WHY WOULD GOD DO THIS TO ME, If there is a God" We testified and bore testimony of the Plan of Salvation, and the reality of God, and slowly this woman began to gain hope. It was unreal to see her change of heart, to see hope come into her heart, she wasn't interested yet in another visit, but we were able to help her find a little hope, and it was such a miracle. As we drove away we thought truly how the Lord leaves the 99 so often and goes and rescues the 1. It was such a blessing to be able to find His one lost daughter without hope and to help her even just a little, she was such a beautiful woman.
Sister Ticong and I had some crazy experiences this week. We got called some of the most vulgar words we have ever heard, one lady was going to call the cops on us, and another screamed the nastiest things in our face. We were really not trying to be discouraged, but it was so hard. Satan was really working through all those that we work with, and it seemed like this week all of our investigators either dropped us, or went MIA... We tried keeping hope, but we could both feel a little diminishing. We went to church, we decided to fast, and we fasted specifically that we would find a new investigator that would be sincere and progress towards the waters of baptism. We were sitting at chruch, and teaching gospel principles when Bishop came in and said "Sisters I need you to come with me".. We followed him into his office, and he said there is someone I want you to meet. In His office stood the CUTEST Kiribati family I have ever seen, the Dad is Less Active the mom isn't a member and they have two children. Bishop said, "This family came to church for the first time, and the mom would like to take dicussions and get baptized, and their family would like to be sealed someday." WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sister Ticong and I literally had tears in our eyes, had God truly heard our prayers, had he answered our fast?? YES, he had. He truly had manifested himself, and we had in front of us a miracle, a golden family. The father was recently in a car accident, and he said God saved his life, so he promised God he and his family would do everything they could to be an eternal family, and that started with his wife getting baptized. I felt my Saviors love yesterday, I truly had lost a little hope, YET he knew me, and he knew Sister Ticong, and he knows that we try our best, Strive to anyways, and because of that he truly blessed us. It was such a unique feeling, feeling so much joy, for someone else.
I know that this blessing came because we fasted and prayed. If you feel like you have lost hope in whatever it is, work, school, family, life, or the gospel. I promise as you sacrifice for a short time something that your body needs to survive you are showing God that you would do anything to receive his help. I have the strongest testimony of Heavenly Father knowing us personally. I do know that he is aware of you, if you don't know, test his love. Ask him, and I promise you he will answer you, WHY? BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU, and YOU are His child. I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!
Arohanui,
Sister Maddie DeLoach
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