Lots of stories from this week!
Starting off with a funny one! One of our friends is reading the Book of Mormon from the beginning & she reads on her own & then we come together & review & then read the next chapters. Well in one of our lessons this week, she told us she was in chapter 16 so we flip to Nephi chapter 16 & we are like oh boy it's the Isaiah chapters... Haha so for the next 15 minutes we are explaining all about Isaiah & she's asking some cool questions & stuff & then I got thinking... Wait wasn't she just reading about Nephi and his father's dream last time? Didn't we just send her the video for that... I feel like Isaiah isn't that close to those stories... Trying to figure this out in my head & then I look at what chapter we are in & it's SECOND Nephi! Hahaha so I nudged Sister Norton & told her & we both just start busting up laughing & told our friend that we were so sorry & totally just confused the crackers out of her & she laughed too haha! THEN we went back & had a lovely discussion about Lehi's family getting the liahona & Nephi's awesome example!
We made & sang a song for our zone in one of our zone calls this week!
We've had lots more lessons reading the picture Book of Mormon & I think it is so cool how our Karen friends learning English just LOVE THAT BOOK! Those lessons are the best! One of our newer friends got her Picture Book of Mormon this week & at the end of our call she was just hugging it with the cutest smile on her face! WOW I LOVE THESE PEOPLE & THIS WORK!
We've also had some awesome lessons with Dah Wah this week! He got to 3rd Nephi in the Picture Book of Mormon & you know what that means! Jesus comes! He loved that chapter & it is just so cool & so fun to watch him learn! He had an ahah moment about the Plan of Salvation during that lesson & asked so many good questions & gave so many awesome comments! He's the best!
Okay okay now for a STORY. For the past couple of weeks we have been working on a video for our Facebook page where we videoed young women painting & stuff. But on Saturday we were out in front of our apartment finishing our parts of the video so we were painting and then switching places & painting & then taping things & moving things & as I'm painting Sister Norton tells me that some guy in a big semi truck is watching us haha but we just keep doing our thing & then the guy gets out of his truck & starts walking toward us & tells us he doesn't mean to be rude but is so curious what the heck we are doing & couldn't figure it out! Hahaha so we told him what we were doing & kind of explained who we were & stuff & then for the next hour we just talked to this guy & he talked about his life & church & stuff & we just felt like we needed to listen & not really say anything. Anyway it turns out as a semi driver he was going to be sitting there for a couple days kind of resting for a bit so we asked if we could have a lesson the next day & he said "I'll be here!" Haha we went to our car to get him a Book of Mormon & weren't super sure if he'd accept it but then he starts coming back toward us to give us some truck calendars & told us "here's to remember the lunatic who told you a bunch of stories" & then Sister Norton handed him a Book of Mormon & said "here's to remember the lunatics who gave you a Book of Mormon!" THEN yesterday we got to have a lesson & he had already started reading it! He has a super open mind & said he doesn't want to shut anything out! AND he had told his wife about it & she wants to read it too! Wow longest story ever but what we've learned is how nothing is a coincidence! 1st- us making this video was so inspired & meant to be. 2nd- us making our part of the video outside our apartment when it just so happened he'd be there. 3rd- him parking on our street! Apparently one of his friends told him to just park at the Kmart down the road instead, but he felt fine about parking there! 4th- him coming down to talk to us to see what we were doing. 5th- all of the other tiny miracles that taught us that God has a plan & when we get to see that plan falling together (coincidences) we should recognize God's hand & take joy in those moments! I think it's maybe less often than we'd like where we get to be a part of these super crazy cool coincidence filled moments & stories that we hear about & we may get discouraged when it doesn't seem like they are happening in our lives, but I know that even when we don't see all of the build up & lining up & outcomes that that is ALL Heavenly Father sees! All day every day He is working & lining things up & if we could see things from His perspective, I think every single second of our lives we would see had so much preparation put in & that every day there are "coincidences" that He has organized! Tender mercies I think is a better word for them ;)
Ok last thought I wanted to share was from something one of the Karen Elders shared at our last mini sacrament meeting yesterday! He shared a story from a talk where a little boy & his dad were in a store & saw one of those boxing dummies where you punch it & it comes back up. The dad asked the little kid why he thinks it comes back up after punching it to the ground & the boy said "maybe it's standing up on the inside!" & the elder in our district talked about how we can do the same! Even when life is hard or our circumstances are hard we can stand up on the inside! And that made me think about self worth again & how on the inside we are all children of God! So, if we stand up on the inside & know who we are, then no matter what the world tells us or throws at us, we will be happy! God is good! He loves us! He has a plan! I love you all & hope you have a fantastic week!
Love, Sister Freeman ဖီပြံဝါ
Pictures:
1. Our zone
2-5. More pictures from our last time with President & Sister Barney
6. Haha we called the Karen Elders & this is how they answered
7-8. Fancy breakfast
9. Zone calls
10. It feels so good to be out & about even if it's only a little!
11. TRUCK GUY
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