Bonjour à tous!
I realized for the past 3 weeks my fun fact of the week has been longer than my weekly email... so I am going to do a short fun fact and try to tell some stories this week :) Two cool experiences about people we are working with!
1) There is this family we have been working with, where two of the kids are baptized and two haven't been. So while teaching the follow up lessons we are teaching normal lessons to the kids who haven't been baptized. One concern with this family, is the kids are very very mean to each other. Even though individually they are sweet and have a testimony of the gospel, put them together and they are sarcastic and bitter towards one another. I'm used to a good dosage of sarcasm since it tends to be a part of my humour, but with this family it's just used to hurt each other. So I sat them down and made them say 3 things they loved about each other instead of our normal lesson. Honestly at first it was really hard for them to even give one compliment to each other. Their aunt had to do a bit of bargaining/threatening, but after a while they got the hang of it. By the end, the spirit was so strong and there were hardly any sarcastic comments being made to each other. I just felt so much love for and from the kids :) it was a good lesson.
2) We have been working with this woman for a while who has a lot of interest, but is struggling to know that God is there. This week we committed her to pray about a specific concern or question in her heart. I ended up giving the promised blessing, and I promised that she would receive an answer that week. As I was giving the PB, I was pretty nervous since I personally don't have power to answer her question. But I really felt that that was the promised blessing she needed, so I gave it to her. A few days later she texted us and told us she had prayed and knew that God was there and felt His love for her! It was so great to see that promise fulfilled :)
That leads me onto my spiritual thought (which i haven't given in a while...)! For her to receive that blessing, she had to have faith and do what we committed her to do. Another factor, was I as a missionary had to have faith that God could make it happen. Even when we aren't missionaries, when someone we know or love is struggling and we want to help them, we can pray for them all we want but if we don't have faith that Heavenly Father can bless them, they may not receive the blessings he has in store for them. That was cool for me :)
Okay so this email is way longer than my last few so hopefully it makes up for my lack of writing these past few weeks.. months... transfers....
Love you all!!
Sister Keller
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