Week 80 - Coincidences...or miracles?

This week was good! We saw a lot of cool miracles. Sadly, this week the alternator in our car was broken, so we were on bikes/walking all week until Friday. I've been spoiled recently with a full time car, so maybe it was good for us ;)

Tuesday, we had a cool experience! There was a lady that E. Ebeling and I had taught about 4 months ago named G. We lost contact with her and she eventually moved. Well Tuesday morning, we were tracting and found a hispanic lady that looked really familiar to me. She told us she was from Puerto Rico and that her name was G, and it clicked! We found her again! We set a lesson for Tuesday morning, so hopefully she starts investigating once again. 

We also taught a lesson in a limo!!! We have an investigator named E who owns 3 limos. He has a hummer limo and a Chrysler 300 limo in Iowa, and here at his house he has a Ford Excursion limo. We went by to teach him, and the last time we taught him we had expressed desires to see the limo. So when we saw him on Tuesday, he offered to show it to us. We got in his limo and talked for a bit, and then we showed him the new "Hallelujah" church video and shared some scriptures from the BoM about the resurrection. It must have really touched him, because after we stepped out of the limo, he said, "I'm going to go to your church someday."We're making progress!

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On Friday, we took our car to the dealership to get the alternator replaced at 7:30 in the morning. They told us it would only be a couple hours, so we came back in 3 hours to find that all they had done was identified the problem... so slow. So our plans were very delayed due to that, so we had to cancel a few appointments in Warsaw and tract in Goshen instead. We started tracting in a nearby trailer park, and we saw a white girl walking her dog. Elder Schoeneman urged me to give her a pass along card and I felt the same impression, so it must have been inspired. I yelled out that I liked her dog and approached her. I handed her an Easter pass along card and asked if she new why we celebrate Easter. She then, to our surprise told us that she was a member that had moved from Springville, UT, but hadn't been to church for 6 years. She said it was interesting that we ran into her, because she had a lot of people recently telling her that she needed to get back into church. We're hoping she listens to the Lord's invitation to come back to church given to her by His servants here on Earth. 

Later that day, we drove down to Warsaw to do some work down there and started by tracting in another trailer park (we spend a lot of time in trailer parks). We went to the house of a former we found in our area book and knocked on the door. She no longer lived there, but we taught the family that was there. We taught J and her 9 year old daughter G. They accepted a Book of Mormon and said we could come back on Friday! Well, the next day, we went to another investigator's house in Goshen named R, and while we were there, a little girl that looks just like G all of the sudden walked out of his house! Doubtful, I thought it was just a coincidental resemblance, but then the little girl said, "They came to my house yesterday and gave us some bibles!" It was G! It turns out that J is R's daughter and they live in 2 different cities 1 hour away from each other and we were teaching them both! I don't think that was a coincidence. So we invited them to church, but sadly, they didn't show up. 

Other than that, not much is going on. We started teaching another family who is pretty interested. The mom's name is S, and she lives with only 2 of her 5 kids, C and L We had our first visit with them on Saturday and we are going again on Wednesday, so please pray for them!! 

I love you! Have a great week and a happy Easter! 

Love,

Elder Thayne