Hi everyone!!
This week was a little slow but I can't expect every week to be jam packed. We did a lot of knocking doors and trying to track down less actives and old investigators. I guess you can call it success when you learn that they've moved, then you can redirect your focus a little bit. Though it would be awesome if we could know where they moved to so we could send other missionaries to their homes. Sometimes we get lucky with that.
This week I met a really inspiring lady. Her name is (.......) and she is in her late 60's/early 70's. We met her because she had referred her daughter to us, asking for a blessing. We arrive at her house and her daughter isn't there yet (and neither are the elders) so she starts to tell us about how she came to know the church.
About 3 years ago, she and her family had just moved into their house in Canyon Country when one Sunday morning she woke up and decided that she needed to go to church. She said that it didn't matter what church, any church would do. So she decided that she would either walk two blocks to the left or two blocks to the right and the first person she met she would ask about where she could find the nearest church. She started walking and she saw this man holding what looked like scriptures, putting stuff in his car. So she went up to him and asked where they were going. They happened to be LDS and his wife said they were going to church and she asked if (........) wanted to join them. She said yes, she would. So the family said they would pick her up in 15 minutes. She went home to change (she saw the wife wearing a skirt). She had no idea where to find a skirt (since they had just moved) but miraculously there happened to be one sitting on the back of a chair. The family picked her up. She went to church, not knowing much English, but happy to go anyway. She enjoyed what she saw and felt. She got baptised and since then hasn't missed a single Sunday. And because of her example her granddaughter was baptised just a short while ago.
She is such a great example to me of the converting power of the Holy Ghost. She didn't understand much English and to this day she only understands about 75% of what is said but she felt that what was being said was true and thus wanted to be a part of it. Her story, to me, is one of those amazing conversion stories that you don't hear very often. I'm grateful to have met her and hopefully I'll get to see her again in the future.
In other news... Hermana White and I have a tentative baptismal date set for one of our investigators, (.......), for the 12th of February. She's a great lady and we're excited that she wants to be baptised. I'll have to tell you more about her when I have more time because I don't have time (now) to tell you sufficiently about her.
Oh and we are doing exchanges this week. On Thursday I get to go up to Palmdale. I'm super excited. I'll let you know how it goes.
Have a terrific week.
Love you all,
Hermana Hansen
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