YOU GUYS!! I'm absolutely OVERWHELMED with love for and from my Heavenly Father this week. It was a week of miracle after miracle and probably one of the best/coolest weeks of my whole mission!! Sooo I would love to share a little bit about a couple of experiences this week!
Mon- pday, always a good time, but I felt very inspired to start a good week. Last week was good but I was feeling still a little sad about working so hard and not seeing fruits of our labors. I had come to terms with a couple things but felt like I just needed a little advice so I talked to our aps who are some of my good friends and they gave me some awesome advice and a blessing! Guys the power of the priesthood is so real and never feel scared to ask for a blessing or advice from your leaders. I felt so much peace from the blessing and literally felt like God was saying "Sadie don't worry, I have a plan" and it was great. One of them also encouraged me to read in the bible dictionary about prayer and I invite each of you to read it!! It talks about prayer in a way I had never thought before, and it really helped me!
Tuesday- we decided to do a fast and WOWZA, I saw SO many miracles. We were able to find so many new people and help a couple people get on date for baptism for December!
Wednesday- one of the most memorable days of my mission fr. Wednesday before walking to the comida we prayed that on the way we would be able to find a milagro (or miracle) and that God would put people in our way that he needed us to talk to. Well a couple minutes of walking and a woman flagged us down and asked if we were missionaries, and she said she'd been looking to get in contact w the church again for months, that she was inactive and wanted to come back to church w her family. When we asked her name... she said "milagro"... literally God put a milagro in our path and it was awesome! Then we got to the food and the hermana had bought a pumpkin pie bc she remembered I liked it and wanted that for Thanksgiving! Another miracle haha!
Then to finish the night we had one of the most spiritual lessons of my mission! We were teaching a guy named Adrian (his whole family that he lives w here are members and he's had the lessons w a few sets of missionaries but hasn't felt ready to be baptized) so anyways we've been teaching him and in the lesson teaching about the gospel of Jesus Christ I just straight up asked what was impeding him from being baptized, that if he knew it was something important and wanted to follow christ, what was holding him back... well he thought for a few moments really thinking then looked up at me and said "nada" that there was nothing holding him back and that he wanted to be baptized! So I was stoked and the spirit was so so strong, and then we were like ok let's set a goal with you, and he was like "is it possible to be baptized this weekend?" And I thought WHATTT hahahah, and he said "I think Friday I'm busy but Saturday me and my whole family could come, and I can be baptized." You guys don't even understand the miracle that this was!! Really the reason I was feeling down this last week not seeing the fruits of my labors was because at the beginning of the year I set a goal to try and bring at least 1 soul to christ every month in this year of 2022 through baptism, and I had completed that goal up until what I thought was November. All of our dates had fallen through and I kinda lost hope. I didn't understand why "God wouldn't help me" with a righteous goal. It took me a lot of prayer and studying the scriptures to realize that I had done all that I could have and I wasn't a failure. People have their agency and if i do my part thats what matters. I recognized that the power was in God's hands and he knew what he was doing. I finallyyy had come to terms with the fact that I wouldn't be able to help someone be baptized in November and then in this lesson when Adrián said he wanted to be baptized this weekend (november) I felt like I got hit with a truck literally. I didn't have words. I felt the spirit so strong and I felt God saying that my work and effort was appreciated and that HE knew what he was doing. Adrian was so sure and prepared that it just completely caught me off guard! So yeah coolest experience
Thurs- normal day but we had an activity in the ward of soccer and we played w everyone and ofc won. I love getting to play soccer here haha
Friday- we had divisions and I got to go on divis with one of my absolute FAV missionaries hna refugio, and we had so much fun, worked hard, and saw SO many little miracles of people being put in our path. Walking that day I commented about liking a lady's dog and they asked who we were and we said representatives of Jesus christ and she started balling and welcomed us in and said she was going to take her life that day and we were angels sent to her to remind her she's a child of God! It was a cool experience and we taught her about the plan of salvation and she said she wants us to try to teach her family! I absolutely loved spending time w hna Refugio, and i love learning from other missionaries no matter how much time i have in the mission! Theres always something you can learn from every person! Ah i loved being w refugio and I'm trying to convince her to move to Utah bc she's the coolest... she's almost convinced;) 
Saturday- the baptismmm! It was a crazyy day getting everyone invited and planned last minute but it all worked out... eventually. There were soo many problems that day haha one being the water not working at the church until the absolute last minute, but we ended up having a great baptism and the spirit was super strong! Our mision pres and his wife also showed up and it was awesome:)
Sunday- I love Sundays! My comp and I talked in church and we had a devotional w the mission and they told us that we get to go to the temple for Christmas in the city of Mexico and to say I'm STOKED is an understatement!!
Anyways SUCH a good week and I know God is so aware of me and you and he loves us! Don't forget that! He has a plan for you!! And don't forget to read about prayer in the bible dictionary!!
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