Sister Kunz and I had an awesome miracle last Monday night after Pday was over! We were out knocking on doors, when we heard our phone ring. It was Paul, who is a great man we are workin* with from Sierra Leone. About a week and a half ago, we fasted with Paul for 24 hours so that he could get Sundays off. He has really been wanting to come to church and knows how important it is to keep the Sabbath day Holy. So anyways, Paul calls us and says he has good news. He told us that his boss had just gotten off the phone with him and told him that she was going to move his schedule around so that he could get Sundays off. The great part is that Paul hadn’t mentioned getting Sundays off once after we fasted. He had asked his boss about 4 months ago if he could get that day off but she said she had no control over that. He was planning on asking her again after we fasted, but she called him before he even could. It really strengthened my faith in the power of prayer and fasting. The Bundor family is doing great. We went over and had a lesson with about 6 of the 9. We taught them more about eternal families and how their family can one day go to the temple to be sealed. They were really curious about temples and told us that their sister talks about the temple back home. They said, “my sister just traveled to Ghana to go to one of the temples with her whole family. She was talking about something like sealing her family”. I couldn’t believe it!!! Her sister back in Africa had just gone to the temple to be sealed, and here we were teaching the rest of the family the exact thing. They all came to church this week and are preparing to be baptized for the beginning of next month. We are still working with Taiwo and he is just amazing. He comes to church every week and we meet with him multiple times throughout the week. A member from our ward always comes with us and he ward loves him. He is being baptized this Saturday! We are so excited for him. One of my favorite members in this ward is from Nigeria, her name is Oreo and is a recent convert. We went to her house on Tuesday and she said that she had a special surprise for us. She came out with this beautiful fabric that she had ordered from Nigeria. She made us these wrap skirts with headbands. It was so nice of her. A cool miracle that happened at the visitors center yesterday really reminded me of how much Heavenly Father puts us in specific situations at the right time. I was talking to a family who walked in and we talked for a while. They mentioned to me how their daughter was on a mission in Tahiti. They went to walk around some more and a couple minutes later a woman walked in who was walking really quickly to the bathroom. I had seen her once before but I wasn’t sure how I knew her. After she came out I went to talk to her for a while. She was about to leave and I felt prompted really strongly “ask her where she is from”. So I asked her where she was from and she said Tahiti. I told her that I was just talking to a family who has a daughter serving there and I could introduce them to her. She was a little shy but I walked over and found them. I introduced them and said that she was from Tahiti. The mother immediately started crying and the woman from Tahiti said that she was from a little island that she thought they wouldn’t know. Well their daughter was currently serving on that little island where the woman was from originally. They all started crying and hugging eachother and it was special to see. They were showing her pictures and she knew so many of the people that their daughter was serving around. It was amazing to see the timing of it all and how we are guided to places for a reason. Also while I was at the visitors center I met a couple, Lynn and Janice Child from Quincy!!! They know the Cobias really well and also they said they know Lowell and Shannon! They served in the Columbia River temple too for a while a long time ago. We talked for a long time and it was so much fun. We had ward conference yesterday and there was a really simple sentence that the stake president said that stuck out to me. He said, “We come to church to be reminded of the gospel. We go home to learn it.” I had never really thought of that too much but I love it. He talked about the importance of daily personal worship and taking the sacrament each week. It is the only ordinance that we do more than once for ourselves and how sacred it is. Well I love you all and I really am so grateful for your prayers and fasting recently. I have seen great miracles the past week in regards to my health and I know that so much has come from you all. Have a great week!
Love Sister Haertling
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