Something I've learned on my mission is that most of the time things just don't really turn out how you thought they would haha but that's okay because we just need to exercise our faith and trust that God has an even better plan.
Isaiah 55:8-9
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
that scripture is soooooo true!!!! Especially this week haha it was kind of a roller coaster anyways so we were going to have a baptism this Saturday and she had her interview and everything went well and she was so excited and all and so we saw her a couple times through the week and we went by Saturday morning to check on her and make sure she was ready and all good for her baptism that night at 7pm and she said yes I'll be there at 6:30 I'm ready and this is what God wants for me right now and I'm so excited so we all prayed and hugged and it was all good. In the afternoon we sent the elders to go visit her (she's been taught by a bunch of different sets if missionaries) and they stopped by to make sure that she was still good and wasn't going to go to Mexico and was ready and everything was good until about 3 pm when we receive a text and she's like sorry sisters I'm going to Mexicali and I don't think I'll be back in time for the baptism so we're like WHAT and we call her and were like no you need to come back it's all planned everyone's coming this is what you want and what God wants and she's like ok I'll try to be back by 7:30.
-in the meantime-
We decide to go teach a less active family and we always teach the restoration so we get in there and were just teaching it and my companion was like There's so many churches and Joseph smith wanted to know which church was true have you ever had a question like that? And then things just went bad from there and they took offense to that question and just started tearing us apart... Fifteen minutes later we left crying so that didn't go too well.
Trying to stay positive we continue texting and calling the baptismal candidate and then about 8 pm we lost contact with her and she never showed up and we were super sad for her. So we went home and went to bed and woke up Sunday and wanted to go see if we could find her and she wasn't home so we left a note and that's all the contact we've had with her. Then we walked by to pick up another solid investigator for church and found out he had left for Mexicali for the next two weeks. The struggle of living on the border :((((((((((
HOWEVER we are not lower our expectations and we are not giving up because the devil wants us to feel doubt discouragement and despair but we need to move forward with FAITH because Gods plan will go forth!! So we are still smiling and finding joy in the journey. I have never worked harder then I have this week, we come in every night ready to collapse it's so awesome and I'm so grateful that I get to serve here.
SO NEVER GIVE UP!!!! Keep serving loving and working hard in all you do.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
xoxo hermana koelliker
Ps you don't have to worry about me getting kidnapped and taken over the border because my comp is a karate triple back belt hahaha I didn't even know that was a thing but hopefully she's got my back.
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