Hermana Rachel Ruth Peters

September 28, 2015
Miracles!

Hi family,

Okay there are not even words to express all that happened this last week. I am still in awe with all of the miracles we saw. If there is one word to describe this week it`s just that... miracles.

So let me see where i can start.... First off we had divisions with some hermanas this week, Hermana Flores and Hermana Herrera. So Hermana Herrera is a miny missionary, which means she isn't a missionary, she`s just one of the youth here that offered to spend 3 weeks as a missionary because Hermana Amador needed to go home. So she`s been with Hermana Flores the past 3 weeks and lets just say they have been having a really hard time, and have been really discouraged. And when a missionary is discouraged, they don't see success. So they basically didn't have anyone to teach and were just visiting members. So i went to their area with Hermana Flores and I knew the most important thing was to help her build up her faith. If you have faith you can do anything, especially with missionary work. I prayed a lot before to know how to help this sister and then when I got there we went crazy. I just tried really hard to put a smile on my face and talk to everyone. So we did just that and we were doing good, found a few people to teach but nothing great. I could tell she was feeling down at one point because we got rejected like 10 times in a row so I told her "Lets pray". We stopped right there in the street and said a pray, asking for direction in where there are people that want to listen to us. We opened our eyes and I asked her where we should go, she lead me to where she felt we should be and we found a house with some teenagers outside. So we went over and started talking to them. Long story short they invited us in to teach them and at the end they all accepted to prepared to be baptized. We left the lesson and I just looked over at Hermana Flores and she was beaming.. soooo happy :):) We talked for a long time about how this isn't our work, this is the Lord`s work, and if we ask with faith, he will guide as and help us to find those that are ready to accept the gospel. It was incredible. :)

Another miracle was on Friday. We went to go visit to ladies that we found last week. last week when we shared with them we had a really great lesson and one of them, Lucresia said that she was having a really bad week and then we turned it all around. So that was cool, and then we started to leave, they then told us to be super careful because people get robbed a lot, and just 2 weeks ago Lucresia was robbed... so we were kinda scared leaving the house. As we walked out we both just started praying for protection and that nothing would happen to us. While we were walking I turned to my companion and asked her if she believes that there really are angels guarding us and protecting us. She said Yes of course and we talked about that for a bit as we left this scary street. So ya that was last Friday, and i didn't really even think twice about it, but then this Friday we went back with them. Right when we got in the first thing they asked us was "Are you guys angels??" we both just laughed and then they explained. The other lady named Rosalba left with us, but she went with her husband in their car and we left walking. We went in the same direction and everything, we just had a bit of a head start but it`s a long straight road with trees on both sides. So Rosalba said that as she was driving up the street she started to look for us. Let me remind you we left seconds before her. She said she didn`t see us, they said she looked in front of her and behind her and we were no where to be found. As she explained this me and my companion just looked at each other with big eyes. The only explanation for this is that there really are guarding angels, which hid us, and made us invisible to all others. God protects His missionaries. The church is true. :)

Then on Saturday we went on visits with a member, Elza who has only been a member for 2 months but is amazing!! She comes with us every Saturday and is like a sister to us now. So it started raining and we were running in the rain to get her because our umbrellas broke.. haha she just looked at us and then walked into a store, buying us both brand new and way nice umbrellas. Wow. And then we went on visits. We visited a very special family, Lubi and Ramon with their 2 year old daughter Estrellita. They live in a tiny little room, share a bathroom with like 10 other people, and he hasn`t had work for 2 weeks, so you can say that they were kinda struggling. Lubi was sick and had a lot of pain so she told us she had taken iBuprofen and now her stomach hurt. I remembered how mom always said you had to eat with those so i asked her if she ate something with it. She looked at Ramon and said no. there was no denying that they had nothing to eat. And we as missionaries aren't allowed to give money or anything. but we gave the little girl our granola bars and then left. We passed a grocery store and Elza stopped and said we needed to stop and she went in and bought a ton of food, all for Lubi and Ramon.... I was holding back tears the whole time. So then us, as Santa`s helpers went to give them all the food. We only saw Ramon because Lubi was in the bathroom, but we just put it in there house smiled and left.

Yesterday they came to church. Lubi walked in, saw us and started to cry. She said that she`s never felt so much peace in her life, and you could tell was just soooooooooo grateful for everything we had done, but mostly for Elza, who was an angel for them. Also we had 7 others who came to church, 9 in total!!

I can honestly say that i still feel like crying with the gratitude I feel for my Heavenly Father and His love for all of his children. I know that this all of this that I am seeing isn`t because I am a super missionary, because I`m not. I know that it`s because I am being obedient, and praying with faith. This gospel is amazing, and brings more peace and happiness than any other thing!!

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Love,

Hermana Peters