Wow, a week full of miracles!! Let me just say GOD IS GOOD and I feel so so blessed to be His instrument here in Spotlyvania. ♡ Let me give y'all the run down on our friends and how they are doing.
☆ ROSETTA!! We had the most amazing lesson and Spirit-filled lesson of my life. She was telling us how she feels like it's too late for her to change, so we read the Parable of the Laborers in the vineyard, and let's just say "Come Follow Me" knew what to prepare us for!! A member friend got to join us, and we invited her to be baptized on June 3 and she accepted!!! Everyone continue to pray for her please, I love this woman with my whole heart!!
☆VALERY! OK, so Valery is a girl we met a couple weeks ago that's around our age, and she's been looking, for a church her whole life that believes in God, Jesus Christ and the Spirit as three separate beings. So, when we told her that's what we believe, she was thrilled and finally felt like she found her new home. She and her family joined us at church yesterday!! She is on date to be baptized in June. Pray for her!!!
☆JOHNNY!! Okay this was insane. So, a member in our ward's dad is in town and he was at Costco just eating a hot dog and went and sat by Johnny. Well, he taught him the Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. Then he called us and we set up a time to meet and HOLY, the Spirit was so strong and he was interested and expressed that he's been wanting to make changes in his life and knew he's at the perfect place to start.
I know that the Lord is providing so many miracles for us and magnifying our efforts!! Thank you for all the prayers, WE ARE FEELING THEM! We also got to go on exchanges, and I learned so much from Sister Jones and Hermana Cotton!! They're the best and another miracle was the fact I got to have a sleep-over with Sister Fry. I miss her so much!
For my spiritual thought today, I'll share some of what I shared to the Chancelor Ward yesterday in sacrament!
This week, I read Mark 6 and it had a huge impact on me!
Mark 6:36-42
"Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. And they did all eat, and were filled."
The disciples looked at Jesus and said they only could find five loaves of bread and two fishes. That was everything they could offer him. But the Lord multiplied and magnified their offering because they were WILLING to sacrifice some time, money, and food to the work of the Lord. I love this quote by Elder Cornish, "The disciples gave the Savior what they had. The Savior blessed and multiplied what the disciples were able to provide, miraculously meeting and surpassing what was needed. This sequence mirrors a pattern in our relationship with the Savior. On our own, we fall far short of the perfection and glory of God. When we offer our whole souls to the Savior, the abundant power and grace of His atonement will more than compensate for our shortcomings. The Lord provided all five thousand to eat from five loaves of bread and two fishes and they were all filled. We will be filled and so will others as we give what we have been so freely given, the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is the best thing we can give by word or deed."
I invite you all to give what you've been given and always follow promptings of the Spirit!!! Love and miss you all BIG TIME
#CTR
-SISTER HANNAH COPELAND
Ps I'm the most tired I've ever been in my whole life, so the Lord is enabling me to have strength and I love Him for it.
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