Serving Santa Rosa: 12-12-2016: Sister Ward Goes Home

Hellooo :)

This week was a good week, but a harder one. But hey, adversity.

Kim sent us this picture - she is the cutest. She is a recent convert.

Sister Ward goes home. Aw I am going to miss her so much. She has become my favorite person. haha Every day is a fun day.

I don't have many words today. I'm short on time, but I'll send lots of photos with small captions.

In closing, one of the coolest miracles happened this week. 2 days before Thanksgiving we were out walking around and we had set a goal that every single person we talked to would get a BOM, a pamphlet, or a pass along card. As we were walking we saw this lady getting into her car so we walked fast to talk to her. She was in a hurry, but as I stopped her to give her a pass along card I had the strongest impression to ask her the question "how everything is going in your life?" It seemed like such an odd question because I hadn't even asked her name or anything so I brushed it off as she was in a hurry. As I turned around I felt so badly that I didn't follow the prompting and a few steps later I told Sister Ward. Amazingly, she had the same question pop into her mind. We had to get to an appointment, but afterwards we decided we would stop by and look for her car to see which house she lived at. For the past two weeks, we have tried to find her car in that area and never saw her car again. We thought that perhaps she was only there for Thanksgiving. Then the other day I couldn't shake the impression to go knock at one of the houses it could be even though you can't knock in this area. We went to the first house we thought it could be and knocked and said, "Hi, 2 weeks ago we were outside and talked to this lady and..." Before we could finish the lady said you talked to my sister. She told me about you two. She gave us her address and told us to try to stop by in the evening. WHATTTT it was so crazy! What are the odds that we knocked on the right house and that with less than a minute interaction we would be remembered. It was so cool.

It was already pretty late so the next day we stopped by at night. We knocked and she came out and couldn't believe that we were in front of her. We finally asked her the question that had been on our mind for the past two weeks and she immediately broke down and started bawling on her doorstep. She told us that two weeks ago that day, she was feeling so alone because that day she just found out she was getting a divorce and she was feeling so alone. She said that she wants to learn more and that she sees now even more that God is aware of her. It is still so amazing to me.

Follow the promptings of the spirit, I know this is God's work. Things like this are no coincidence. It's the power of God.

I love my Savior. I love my Heavenly Father; I know He is aware of me.

All my love,

Sister Thurgood