Sister Sadie goes to Louisiana!: God loves meeeee.‏

God loves meeeee.

And He loves His children and lets me and Sister Hunter teach them.

We are truly blessed.

So Heavenly Father really wanted to show me how much He loved me yesterday.

One of our investigators Nancy is one of the funniest people I've met.

She's in her 30's and lives in a mixed home with her mom, adopted sister, niece, and more adopted siblings. We have been teaching Nancy, her niece Brianna (19), her adopted sister Janala (17), and their friend Olivia (16).

Nancy is definitely the most interested and the one who is keeping commitments and reading the Book of Mormon. She's a rockstar! She comes with lots of questions and understands alot. She also enjoys making funny off hand comments. :)

Last week they all came to the 2nd hour of church at 10:30 which was a HUGE deal because we have been inviting and inviting and they want to come but they just can't wake up for it. They aren't used to having only one time for service because most churches have like 4 different times on Sunday. Our church is unusual because its one service at 9:30. Its a common problem. Plus Saturday night is the younger girls 'turn up' night. [partynight ;)]

Anyways Janala is the only driver of one car for all of them to make it and we needed them to wake up so they could come to Sacrament Meeting since that's what we taught them about and stressed the importance of this week.

Saturday night Nancy was texting (calling was broken) us for like 2 hours asking questions about the Book of Mormon and what she was reading, really opening up to us about her past, and just having a really solid faith building conversation. She really wanted to come to church in the morning even if the girls didn't want to or didn't wake up. We told her we could get her a ride but it was REALLY important that she wakes up!

She told us to text her a call her repeatedly in the morning so she would wake up. Of course we agreed for the short term.

Fast forward to Sunday morning 8am aka the time we need to call and text Nancy to make sure she wakes up for church.

call.

text.

8:15am

calling...

texting...

8:30am..

calling..........

texting..........

8:45am......

Sister Hunter and I would switch off calling and texting as we got ready and studied.

dang 45 minutes of constant calling and texting and she still wasn't waking up!!

I was super worried and concerned because we really wanted her to be there but also she really wanted to come too!

Well it was getting really close to time and nothing was happening.

So I got down and prayed really hard that she would wake up! Also the day before we had some extra time that we wasted so I really promised that I would try to work harder and be more diligent in our time.

The MOMENT I got up and sat back down Nancy texted and said she was awake.

Wow.

Wowie.

So many blessings and gifts from Heavenly Father.

He is so good to us.

The end of the story is that she didn't end up coming to church but another one of our investigators that we weren't expecting showed up to church! She has progressed IMMENSELY and she is on her way to the waters soooooon! I'm excited for this week :)))))