Serving in San Antonio Texas: Miracles... Week 6 in Texas! April 29, 2019

Hello family and friends!! I hope everybody is doing well and staying happy with everything going on in your lives!! This week was absolutely amazing. Just like I mentioned last week, Abimael is truly our miracle!

So I mentioned a little bit about the story of Abimael last week, but I just want to say a little more about it! This is a long story, but it's so worth it! Heavenly Father is truly working his miracles here in Texas! It was the second week I was in the field, my trainer and I were listening to the song "hardest thing I've ever loved to do" and it talked about the best sound being water running in the church, and she turned to me and told me she can't wait until the day I have a baptism because it is just so amazing. I then told her I can't wait either, and then told her we are going to have a baptism together and she was totally with me. Then she told me a story about what they had done once before in her mission, and it was that they made a goal for a specific date to have a baptism, and as part of that goal, in every single prayer they said, with members or nonmembers or personal or companionship or anything, we would pray for our goal! So we chose May 18th, it was close but also far enough away that we could see a couple of the people we were teaching be ready by then! So in every prayer, we prayed for our goal. about 2 weeks ago, we still didn't have anybody on date and we didn't necessarily lose faith, but just started seeing that it was getting really close and we started wishing for a miracle. on our exchange, we got a call and the sister that I was with at the time didn't speak spanish, so it was all up to me!! It was one of our returning members in our branch, and he wanted us to come start teaching his son!! So we went by a couple days later and taught him he gospel of Jesus Christ, and his dad had already given him a book of Mormon and he had been reading and everything! The spirit was so strong and we invited him to be baptized on May 18th, to pray about the date and told him we would follow up in our next visit! He came to church the next day, stood up in Sunday school and told everybody who he was, and that he loves the feeling he gets when he is at our church and said he is going to start coming to our church! Then later that day, one of our members told us that they were talking to Abi, and he told them he is going to get baptized! So we waited to call him until the next day even though we wanted to right then, but we called him last Monday after p day ended just to ask how he liked church, and he said he loved it! Then we asked him if he has been praying about May 18th OVER THE PHONE, and he literally was just like "yeah, that sounds good" hahah it was soooo crazy!!! Then my comp and I later realized that in our prayers, we had never been praying "for one of the people we were teaching to be ready for baptism" but to "please help us find somebody who is ready for the gospel and to find somebody who can be baptized by May 18th" and we didn't even realize we had been asking that way until this happened! he is such a miracle because we literally didn't do anything to find him. The Lord has truly been preparing him, softening his heart and he is so ready!!! So that's the story of Abimael! He is our miracle, and wow I AM SO EXCITED FOR MAY 18TH!

Other than Abimael, we did some more service this past week at Threads of Love! It was awesome as always! We are starting to make little outfits instead of little quilts, and it's so fun to become better at sewing! It's even more fun to just sit and talk with all of the ladies that go there, they are so funny!

We went on exchanges again, and nothing crazy happened this time either other than it took us an hour and a half to walk to dinner, when it should have taken us only 40 min haha! I have just come to realize that I am not the biggest fan of changes! Sister Schellenberg is like my home now, so whenever I am not with her, it's super weird for me! The night after our exchanges, I didn't feel too well, and I felt quite sick for all of the next day, so that wasn't too fun! But I am feeling a lot better now!

We received transfer news this morning, and thankfully I am staying in the same area and get to keep my trainer for another transfer!! I was kind of nervous I was going to lose her, because the other sister that is in our apartment that is being trained, she lost her trainer this transfer so I was a little nervous I would lose mine, but all is well! We also thought we would be put in a trio until Thursday, but things just worked out well enough that we got out of that one! This first transfer has honestly been so crazy, we have been busy every hour of every day, which she says isn't like a usual transfer, but it's been so fun! We are truly seeing miracles, and I am loving my time with Sister Schellenberg!

Thank you to everybody who still comes to my blog and reads all about the experiences I am having!! I truly love you all and am so thankful for all of the love and emails I receive every week! I appreciate all of the prayers, we are seeing so many miracles from our prayers at home, so thank you!! I think that is all, so until next week!

Hermana Griffin

Leon Valley District!

Super weird experience.. we went to do service and drop stuff off to a sikhism religion, and they gave us juice and we had to take our shoes off. It was just so funny we had to take a picture!