This week was an awesome week! We definately saw some miracles!
So to start, we kinda had a lot of things fall through with people last week and we decided that enough was enough and we were going to find some awesome people. Turns out it was a a struggle and we actually ended up knocking doors most o the week. Like 4+ hours a day mainly just to stay busy and keep spreading the Gospel. We didn't really see too much success from it all, but we were showing the Lord our Dilligence and expecting miracles to happen .
And they did.
We got a text on Thursday morning from a member of the church across Chicago telling us that we need to giver her friend who lives in our area a blessing on Saturday. We agreed because blessings are important. And we go over there and we meet Christy. She is the SWEETEST LADY I HAVE EVER MET. HOLY COW. We were just talking with her for maybe 5 minutes, gave the blessing and then we were on out way. But she was just smiling with tears in her eyes when she saw us and we explained what was going to happen. The member and her husband were also there and he kinda messed up the blessing part (because he didn't know how to do it) but all well that ends well. Christy was so appreciative and she said that she wanted us to come back and answer her questions about the Church and God in general. So that was a miracle.
Sunday rolls around and we were only really expecting one person to show up to church, Bernice. (who is also a super sweet older woman who is super nice and always so excited to see us) and we are standing in the foyer waiting for people to show up to church and in walks these two families from out of the blue. we walk up and they say " oh hi we are friends of the Holts (a family in the ward) and they invited us to church today and so we are visiting. MY LANTA I was pumped. We talked with them a lot and they have a lot of good questions and other thing so we are going to be following up with them too. So that was another miracle.
We stumbled upon this random neighborhood that is just tucked away in the corner of our area in the middle of a forest preserve. We decided to knoc a few of the streets on Sunday after church before dinner. That place hasn't been touched by missionaries for years. The people are way nice and we talked to maybe like 20 people and like 4 of them told us to come back soon! We found a literal gold mine. And its a huge place. And there's a street there named Seth St. (I will get a picture for evidence soon worry not little flock) We met Matt and John (the Romanian guy who is a legend) and Lilas and it was amazing. We are going to go there all the time now haha So that was another miracle.
We get to eat dinner with this one family on Sunday, The Barlow family and we had planned to invite them to invite a friend to church in the the little message we share at the end. And we sit down to dinner and Sister Barlow is describing dinner and everything and then she says "Oh and by the way, I was going to invite a family to church next week" and we just sat there dumbfounded. Man the Spirit of the Lord is an amazing thing. we committed them to inviting that friend to church! Miracles are all around us here in Naperville.
Sorry this one was a marathon to get through but it has just been the time of my life out here seeing some miracles and getting some good things done. It's aweomse. I ove the Gospel. I love the Book of Mormon and the Bible. I love the fact that we have a living Prophet, called of God to lead us and guide us and direct God's people once more upon the earth. It's comforting to me to know that all these things are true and for that reason, we share these things with everyone.
As always,
Elder Tracy
PHOTOS
we found a giant pig.
we found a stone puppy. too cute not to take a picture.
JOLIET DISTRICT 2.0
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