This week has been SO
fantastic. It's hard to pin it on any one single event, but it just rocked for
some reason.
We were able to meet
with a LOT of people and most of our plans went through! Wooo!
One story I think
everyone will appreciate:
We do service every
Friday at a local senior citizen center. We serve food, help out in the
kitchen, and get yelled at in Spanish frequently. Every week is
pretty much the same and all the local elderly folk recognize us. It's great. Haha.
This last Friday was fairly different from our usual experience...They had
someone there running a Karaoke party! Well...Sister van Langen decided to
deviously volunteer Sister Mann and I to sing a song. (Don't worry, they ended
up making her sing too. Haha! Karma can sure bite ya, ehh, Sister van?) So to
help you picture this, it was three Mormon sister missionaries wearing hairnets
and disposable plastic aprons singing Amazing Grace with an 80 year old
black lady named Gloria...to hundreds of senior citizens. Yeah.
That's right! Haha... Sometimes I just have to laugh at my life.
Something else... We
were looking up a family in a fairly large apartment complex, but the problem
was we didn't have their apartment number. We felt pretty strongly that we
should just go in and start searching even though that seemed like a pretty
impossible task. As we wandered about for only a couple of minutes we faintly
heard someone singing..." O, Elderes de Isreal con migo venid!"...(Ye Elders
of Israel, join now with me). We followed the singing up the stairs and found
the family we were looking for! Haha. Music has a crazy way of
showing me the way. It's truly the language of
my soul. :)
We also had Patriarca
Miranda (Patriarch Miranda) come and teach the spiritual thought at English
Class this week. (I love English Class. It's a way to help people, teach the
gospel and get people to the church building all in one evening!)
Patriarca Miranda is amazing. He taught a fantastic lesson about
communication with our Heavenly Father and about the importance of
"listening".
The truth is, I've
never been very good at "listening”...to anyone, really, (Haha) particularly
answers to prayers. I think sometimes I don't realize the answer to my prayer
is right in front of my face. I'm just not looking for it. Heavenly Father is
answering my prayers and I'm not "listening" for the answer. So my
goal for the coming weeks is to really search through the resources that
Heavenly Father has given to me that will help me find answers to my prayers. A
good friend of mine, namely Jared Hassler, reminded me that there are 3 places
I should always turn to. 1.) The Book of Mormon 2.) Preach My Gosepl 3.) Words
of the Living Prophets. There's one I would like to add to the list... 4.)
Patriarchal Blessing. It's amazing what you can find in
your Patriarchal Blessing. It's the Lord's personal scripture
for you, and there is much revelation to be found. I'd encourage everyone
to get their patriarchal blessing no matter how long ago or how recently
it's been since you last read it. And find scriptures that go
along with the spiritual gifts/warnings/blessing you've been
given. (I'm working on that right now, and it's SO COOL!) I
know these are things that seem obvious. But when I turn to them with the
intention of finding an answer to a question or turn to them for solace in a
time of worry or anxiety I've been able to find what I need.
Wooo! I love
spiritual enlightenment. :)
Random side
note.... real Brazilian food IS SO GOOD. We went over to a Brazilian
member's house so that Sister Mann would have someone to help her with her
Portuguese... man oh man, I'm a tiny bit jealous she's going to Brazil for the
food. Haha.
Anyway much LOVE and
prayers to all of you!
Keep the faith!
Hermana Franklin
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