Craziness.

So crazy. This week I talked to a deaf guy on a motorcycle. Needless to say, the brief encounter I had with watching a choir sing in Chinese sign language (/boy band moves) wasn't enough for me to preach the gospel or even be nice. So I smiled and gave him a tract and felt awkward and continued riding my bike.

 

More crazy. Went "babysitting" on Thursday night. Which just means that all the new trainers take out a random trainee for the night and go proselyting for 2-3 hours. So I got paired up with a blonde sister. An Jie Mei. She was awesome and that night we had fun (she got my jokes), got mango slushies, placed 3 book of mormons, found 2 new investigators, had 3 other lessons, and found 5 potentials who really seemed like they wanted to meet again. So I was stoked. (And my confidence was boosted.) Then the next day I am SOO nervous to find out who my trainee will be. And An Jie Mei goes first and says what she likes, then President Day (aka Game show host) announces everything she likes and all her accomplishments then a slide pops up with a place name and a picture and I think I hope she's my trainee but don't want to get my hopes up too much and then my picture popped up! I leapt up, hugged/lifted her up and it was awesome. We're on the way home and chatting and she talks about her brother who went to Jerusalem this summer. Curious, I ask who he is/what his/her last name are and she says Anderson.

 

So...guess who my knew green fresh off the boat companion is? Sister Anderson. Have you ever noticed how similar "Siiissster Andersson?" is to "Missterr Andersson?" (Matrix). Because I have and I think about it all the time. And also, guess who she is! Spencer Anderson's younger sister! WHAT!?!? Craziness. Cool though. She's super nice and cool and thinks I'm awesome and laughs at my jokes and we go running together so it's awesome. But it blew my mind when I found out. She has tons of faith and is so willing to learn and try hard and I love it.

 

This week we didn't have her bike because she's brand new. So we walked everywhere and she was so willing to do everything and work hard and it was awesome. And It was a little rough with her jetlag and stuff and watching 10 hours of conference in 2 days, but it was great and I learned a lot. And last night we had a huge miracle. We go to find these LA's that we've looked for before and none of them answer/are there. Then Sister Anderson and I pull out our hymnbooks and I ask her if she felt like we finished the work we were supposed to do. She said no. We both felt like we should walk a certain way. It was 8 oclock at night and we scared this lady washing some stuff outside her house. After scaring her to death, we asked if we could sing for her. She said yes and invited us in. She proceeded to tell us all of her problems and we just let her talk, then we sang More Holiness Give Me, and she teared up. Then I said the closing prayer and prayed for her. When I opened my eyes, she was bawling. She thanked us so much. And we are going back on Friday to help her clean her house (it is like falling apart, she said when the house falls down they'll build a new one. She wasn't joking at all...haha).

 

God loves us and He is a God of miracles. I know He knows each one of us and His hand is in our lives everyday guiding us. I promise if you look for how God's hand was in your life today, you will notice it and as you continue to do it, you will continue to notice blessings that you were taking for granted, and that you will be more happy and see more miracles in your life. I know this because I did it too.

 

I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!

Love,

Sister Perkins