Hermana Robles Mission's Blog: A Blessing or Two...

Tue 2/17/2015 12:22 PM

So much has gone on this past week, that I don't know if I'll even be able to type all of it!

I'll just start off, and my email probably won't be well structured.

So last P-day we decided to do what? Shopping! Yeah, I know. It was relieving. So as we're walking, this man stops us and asked us if we had food or money to spare him. We told him we didn't and that we were so sorry about it. We found out his name was Scott. Poor homeless Scott. He asked us to pray for him so we did and we talked a bit about the gospel. He told us he was so grateful for Christians who share messages about Christ with the world, and ran off. I felt SO bad. Extremely bad, so I told Hna. Whipperman that we needed to do something for him. I always have crazy ideas come into my mind, so before I knew it, we were in line with a loaf of bread, and I found myself paying for it. We ran EVERYWHERE looking for Scott. We even got in the car and drove around for half an hour in hopes of finding him, pero nada. I felt so much regret for not asking him to wait. Even though we spent a ton of our P-day looking for Scott, we realized how much it filled us. Sometimes it is that thought that counts, but how I wish we had found him!

We had exchanges this last week, and I had Hna. Booth (Hna Boman's verdecita) with me in my area. We had a great exchange. Volunteered at the food bank and everything. I had this feeling that we needed to try this potential. So we went and knocked on her door. A man walked up to us and told us that no one was home, and that he lived there. We spoke to him anyway. As we're speaking to this man, I saw a girl about 11 years old walking and struggling with carrying a heavy bag. We stopped, and asked her if she needed help. She told us she didn't, so we kept talking to the man. After talking to him and inviting him to a branch activity we had that upcoming weekend, the little girl came up to us and asked for our help. She was trying to get that big black bag into the trash. I tried to carry it, but the bag was too heavy for my own little self to carry it. I out the bag down and asked her what was in it. She looked at me, smiled and said, "poop". I jumped back and asked, "WHAT KIND OF POOP IS THIS?!" (Hna. Walton and I had a horrible experience with offering service and having to clean human poop once) She told us it was stored cat poop. Sister Booth and I were dying of laughter. It was hilarious. I tried to swing the bag of poop into the dumpster, then in the midst of it being thrown, the bag ripped and it all fell out. We screamed. We just looked at it, and I randomly pulled out the B.o.M and talked to her about the gospel. Long story short, I asked her if her fam. would be interested in hearing more about our message. She asked us if we wanted to meet her aunt. We went in and met her. We just found out she had several deaths in the family and how she just had another funeral for her sister. The poor woman. We realized, "Plan of Salvation!". We taught her about it, prayed, and testified. She was super interested, and asked us to return. We invited her to be baptized, and she said if she knew this was all true. Since they aren't Latinos, we have to pass them on, but as we left, the little girl came up to me, gave me a HUGE hug and asked me to come back soon. It was so darn cute. We then saw her and her aunt attempt to clean up the poop. Who knows, a baptism could occur thanks to cat litter.

Valentine's Day! So that day, we decided to "heart attack" Our members and investigators. We made cookies and cut out heart shaped paper and tape them to the doors writing down what we love about them. We did it for 3 members. It was so great to watch their reactions after we did it, and doorbell ditched them. Their reactions filled our hearts. They deserve to feel loved (:

That day, we also drove around, and I told Hna. Whipperman to roll down her window and scream "Jesus loves you" to pedestrians. Hahaha she totally did it.

So, here's my BIG miracle for the week. There's this family of formers. The Evaristo's. They're Catholic by culture, but don't really "live it". They have this issue with not liking new missionaries, and we somehow changed that for them. They told us that they told the previous missionaries that after they left, they weren't accepting new ones into their home. We won them over (: We had originally planned to teach them the into to the bom, but as soon as we did what we call "How to Begin Teaching", we discerned their need! We applied doctrine to their need. Bro Evaristo had expressed how he felt a few weeks ago that he needs to lead his family to a correct path. So that they can have eternal salvation. He asked so many questions about life and what would happen to us after this life and on the purpose of life itself. I don't know what happened to me, but I was able to follow the Spirit and give him the exact answers he needed. he turned to me and said, " Hermana Robles, out of all the missionaries who I've asked these questions to, you were the first who was able to answer them, and I do not doubt a single thing you said." Holy cow. The Spirit was soooo strong. We had a great conversation of the Plan of Salvation, and they begged us to return. They also invited us to their daughter's Quinceañera, so that's how we knew we were in (: I testified to them that this and eternal life is something they can have. That their family can be together for eternity. They loved it. They even cried. The Lord led us to a family who is ready, and they know they're ready. Such a miracle. I know that the Lord indicated that I'm doing my job and am worthy of this miracle due to that experience. We have an appt. set with them Thursday, and we're stoked.

I'll leave you off with my favorite quote for the week. This one comes from one of the conversations I had with one of the Marshallese Elders in my District. Yo: Elder Jally..Like "Jally Rancher"? E. Jally: "Sister Robles.. Like, you need to get a robe, 'cause you're "Robe-less"."