Miracles Everyday!

June 8, 2015

So this morning I was reading Elder Neil L. Anderson's talk from this conference, "Thy Kingdom Come." In the notes section, he shares a really neat story! He shares about how he felt the hand of God in the preparation of his conference talk, when he realized that without reading his talk, they'd chosen to sing "Come O Thou King of Kings" as an intermediate hymn, right before he spoke! The theme of his talk and the theme of the song were exactly the same...the hand of the Lord is in even the general conference program! I just thought it was way neat that even an Apostle of the Lord is amazed at the Lord's tender mercies and his small miracles! Those are the type of miracles we get to see every day.

The "burn pile" after we cleaned up our new investigator's yard. It looks awesome!!

Ok, so do you remember the S.'s from last week? They were at church again yesterday! We found out this week something really neat about how we met them! Before we met them, both D. and H. (the parents) had been each praying separately to know what church they should take their family to. D.'s a member, and she was considering coming back to the LDS church. In fact, she knew exactly where it was located and drove past it all the time! So it was on her mind. H. felt a "call" to be a teacher in a church, but wasn't sure where. That's when Sister Brimley and I walked up and knocked on their door! They both took that as an answer to prayer, which is neat, because that day everything fell through and we felt completely led to them! We're not sure, but we're thinking H. is considering being baptized on the same day as his daughters :) :) Oh man, this work is so great!!

Also, we had a neat answer to prayer this week! We've been praying for more referrals all week. Then, on Sunday, we received THREE referrals from members, and then a lady, not a member, drove 45 minutes to show up at our church! What/?? hahaha I just can't help but smile at how good God is to us!

Brother P. decided to be baptized on August 1st!! He is such a good man. I really want to be here for the baptism...wouldn't it be neat to baptize someone with my last name? (almost :))

We just had a good, fun week :) Eating at Cracker Barrel with our missionary "grandparents" the M.'s, getting bags of groceries from ward members when we weren't feeling well, working 2 hours to clean up an investigators yard, having a photo shoot under a tunnel of trees, baking cookies at the Relief Society president's house, getting fed deer meat, going running in the mornings--life is just good! I love this ward, and I'm crossing my fingers that I'll stay another transfer! 

Cracker Barrel with the missionaries!
A random person ended up offering to pay for our meal.
How cool is that??

I love you all!

Sister Petrie

The M.'s told us to make a "funny" face and we both just look stressed...haha