Do you know what blessings are? September 3, 2012

Well. Let me just tell you this week has been FULL of miracles. :) First and foremost, I would like to say that the OTHER sisters had a baptism this week. Thanks to us. We marked the baptism for them last Sunday and he got baptized 2 days ago. hahaha. He´s a kid who has been taught A LOT by sisters and we finally got him to sit down and admit what he wanted in life. :) He's a sweet kid. RICARDO! :)

Other than that, I am also attaching pictures of the 2nd Noah's Ark downpour from last night. We were sitting under a tree training a member and out of nowhere started DOWNPOURING. We had to run into a bar for shelter. When we finally decided it wasn't letting up, we swam our way home. hahaha. I'm kidding about the swimming, but the puddles were pretty huge. People were running out of their houses to take showers in the rain. And the whole city lost power. It was kind of neat. We lost our last hour of teaching last night, but luckily we had decided to leave the house an hour early to teach. :) It was cool.

So we visited 2 inactive families this week and they both showed up for church and bore their testimonies. :) It was really awesome. One of the families,.. I'm not sure why they ever went inactive. I guess when she got pregnant 7yrs ago she just forgot to go to church? Haha. Well this Sunday she went with all of her 4 kids and husband. It made me SO darn happy! The other family is an inactive mom with 2 kids. When we went to teach her this week, it was like a Liahona moment. I wasn't sure what scripture to use, I was just SO sure that the only scripture in my mind was wrong, but after we read it, she was crying. We were so blessed to be able to have that experience with her. The spirit was SO strong when she bore her testimony in church. I know that the Lord was giving her trails so she could find peace in her life. What a loving Heavenly Father we have!

Also, transfers are this weekend and my mini will be going home. Sad. BUT I'm excited to know what is going to happen! Who I'll recieve... Hmmm!

Also, President Oliveira challenged our whole mission to have 10 new investigators with 10 baptism dates marked... And last week we had 12 new investigators. SO basically our plate was really full this week, but we ended up with 15 new investigators and 5 more dates marked. I'm not too disappointed. I feel like the Lord understands we tried our best.

Also,.. This is the third paragraph I've started with also.. hahaha. Um. So I really feel like I can see how much I've grown in the mission! Especially in teaching! I didn't know I was applying so much! But now I feel like I really understand how to teach by the spirit. It's basically the best thing I've ever learned. :) Heavenly Father is so great for helping me.

Other than that.. It's our companionship's turn to cook in the house. I'm pretty excited because that means more Cape Verdian/American food again. :)

Soooo that's it! Until next week! TCHAU!
Sister Buhler