Hello, friends and family. This might be a long one, so I apologize in advice.
First, the miracle!
This last week has been the hardest mental week I've had my whole mission. I won't go into detail, but let's just say I wasn't feeling the overall happiest and it was a very hard mental game. I've been trying to adjust and know that Harrisonburg is where God needs me to be because when I was in Culpeper, I felt such a strong connection to the ward, the people, and it became home so quickly. This place has been totally different for me, which has been so good. It's a learning experience. I have been praying to see the Lord's hand more in my life and to be able to recognize the people he has prepared here because we haven't been teaching much. Well, little did I know he was going to answer so quickly! Okay, ready for this story?! I'm about to tell anyway...
So, Saturday we are getting ready to contact a ton of member referrals and as we were driving, I felt inspired we needed to visit this other member than planned, so we drove to the Smiths and knocked on the door. But wait, before we knock on this door when we were in the car, we both were just talking and super sad about how everything is going. Okay, now back to the story. We knocked and she ended up answering and she hasn't seen missionaries in years. We end up talking to her and told her we will come back and bring uplifting lessons and would love to see her at church. We were about to leave and she continues talking, then all of sudden we see a woman behind us on the sidewalk looking at us and she goes, "Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt, but can I come join?" And Sister Smith ends up introducing us and the woman reads my tag and looks at me and goes, "Amy, can I borrow them? I have questions and I know they have my answers" so yeah... we followed of course and end up walking with her to her home. As we were walking, she asked for some of our basic beliefs, and we told her and when we sat down in our house, we looked at each other and she said, " I wasn't going to interrupt but something was telling me I had to," and she started to cry and told us that she's been lacking with God and knows that we can help. We started testifying of our message and told her that it can change her life, and right then the Spirit hit me so strong and confirmed to me that I'm exactly where I needed to be. Sometimes even when we think we're not being led by the Spirit, we are and this just really opened my eyes to how knowing and loving God is. I started to cry and so did she! She looked at me and said, "You know this is true and I feel that, so I need to listen," and we shared with her the Restoration and she LOVED IT! She ended up taking a Book of Mormon and was so excited to read it. We are planning on teaching her more this week, so God answered our prayers and her prayers so much! So, I'm so grateful for the power of prayer and the miracles God puts into our lives! Also, her name is Sheila...keep her in your prayers!
Sheila's daughter, Patience ❤️
Second, the random happy thing!
Okay, so this is so random, but it made me so happy. So, the whole six months on my mission I haven't been the driver and I wanted to be. But I just never got assigned it. vBut in our mission cars, we have a device and her name is TIWI and she tells us to login, check our speed, put on our seat belt, and if we are being aggressive drivers.v (We love TIWI), but Sister Draut and TIWI didn't get along too well and that means Elder Fillmore (Elder over the drivers) wasn't too happy. JK he didn't care but Sister Draut just didn't want to drive anymore, SO GUESS WHAT!! I'M DRIVING AND I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT IT. I DIDNT REALIZE HOW MUCH I LIKED TO DRIVE UNTIL THIS WEEK! Also, incase y'all are wondering, me and TIWI get along great.
Third, this one happened hours ago.
So me and Sister Draut were talking and going to sleep right? Well, once we said goodnight and finally started falling asleep, I woke up and got the thought that I didn't lock the door. Right when I said that, we heard a loud thud on our bedroom door and we both shot up and out of bed. I walked over and made sure our bedroom door was locked as Sister Draut started trying to get ahold of literally anyone! Well...no one is answering, and we are still hearing noises in our apartment, so we go hide in the closet and finally the Elders called us back and told us to go to the Hermanas'. So, we ended up jumping out of our bedroom window and went to the Hermanas'. So yeah, y'all will read this and be like why didn't you call 911? Well, we wanted to but we're literally so afraid and we didn't know what to do because our mission President wasn't answering. But all that matters is we are safe and sound at the Hermanas' and slept here.
So, my email is a little all over the place!🤣 So much happened this week, good and bad and scary and happy! But I'm so grateful that no matter where we are, God is so aware of is!
I hope you're all doing well and staying safe in the snow!!
Love and miss yall❤️❤️
Naps after service in the car
#CTR
-SISTER HANNAH COPELAND
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