Oh this week. I'm kinda glad it is over. It was hard, and we are exhausted...from not being able to go anywhere! So after all the chaos of this week, we received instruction that prohibited our normal working for the past couple days. It started Thursday night when a member got a phone call saying that a city wide curfew had just been initiated. The missionaries received one as well. We had to be home before 8. We were also told that we needed to have enough food for the next day...or 3. Ramen noodles it is! ;)
So Friday, we weren't allowed to go out unless we had appointments...thankfully we did because we were done cleaning our house in 2 hours. We still had to be home by 8. Since then we had been able to go out more, but we couldn't go contacting because we didn't want to draw attention to ourselves. So pretty much this week had been a lot of sitting around doing nothing. Guess with this recent change in the mission, where contacting is the priority, when we can't do it, we don't know what to do with ourselves. But we just got news this morning that everything is back to normal again!
Besides that, this week was good for a couple different reasons:
1) We got a phone call Wednesday morning. We were expecting it to be the Elders, but nope. It was Brother Sing! He apparently just had problems with his visa, so he hadn't been able to come back before then. But he's back now! That was the best phone call I ever received!
2) Even though we couldn't go contacting, we did receive a really good referral from our Branch President. He referred us to a lady named Bua. We called her and she told us pretty flat out that she wants to see if Christianity can help her daughter, NamPhng (Honey, or water of the bee? Haha). She's 11 years old and refuses to go to school. We went to see them immediately. I feel like it has been a long time since we've taught in a home as opposed to the church. It felt really nice. We think NamPhng gets teased because her mom only has one arm. But she's the sweetest girl. She doesn't say much, but she smiles (it doesn't help too much when we are trying to see if she understands, but we love her). The first time we met her, I felt like I had known her my entire life. It doesn't happen too often, but I was able to feel the Spirit so strongly with her from the get-go. I know that we knew each other before this life, and that she is one of the reasons I am in this area.
3) Sunday, everything seemed to be going not quite so good. We didn't get to go contacting, so our investigator pool was really suffering. And then during sacrament meeting, I was just flipping through my scriptures and found this verse (Hebrews 12:11): "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby"
You know it is going to be a good day when that's the first thing you find! This week was trying, and things didn't seem to go perfectly as we planned, but things always work out the way God planned them! Remember to "dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." :) Even though I couldn't see it at the time, God was preparing the way for us long before we even knew we needed it. He provides!
Just keep swimming, and God will reveal His plan in His own way and in His own time.
Until next week!
Sister Norrell
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