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| Last hugs at the airport. (we'll be back to pick her up next week) |
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| The Elders left us these kind notes and their hammock for us to borrow! We are lucky to be surrounded by so many good people |
Our week started off
pretty normal. We went on exchanges with the Plaquemine sisters from Tuesday to
Wednesday and did some great contacting with them at free speech alley. Late
Wednesday night is when things got a little crazy. President Varner called us
around 10 pm and asked us if we would come to the mission home. A sister in the
mission who Sister Edwards is close to had a family emergency and wanted Sister
Edwards to be there. So we grabbed a couple things and rushed over to be with
her.
It's amazing to me how
Heavenly Father is in all the details of our lives. Just a week earlier Sister
Edwards had the thought to ask missionaries who were close to this sister to
write encouraging letters to her. She gathered them up and Sister Varner was
going to give them to the sister at her zone conference, which would be the six
month mark of her dad passing away. So when we met her at the mission home after
she received news of a couple more deaths in her family she was able to read
these sweet letters from people who love her. Heavenly Father knows exactly
what he's doing when He prompts us to do good things.
Y'all, this sister is a
warrior if I've ever seen one. She is so strong, so good, and has so much
faith. We ended up staying with her the rest of the week and she was a literal
light. I've never seen anything like it. The spirit was noticeably strong
around her and it was almost as if we could literally see the Holy Ghost
lifting her to comfort her and answer the prayers of all who were praying for
her. She was actually glowing.
We took her to her zone
conference, the temple, back to her area to pack, and tried our best to love
and serve her. There honestly wasn't a whole lot we could do for her except
love her and be her friend. We definitely told her a lot of dumb jokes haha.
But Heavenly Father took the best efforts of everyone around her and magnified
it to fill her hard moments with light. I know there were angels, seen and
unseen, surrounding this sister. I feel so blessed that Heavenly Father allowed
us to be there with her.
"Sometimes God
calms the storm....sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child"
I love y'all! Please
keep this sweet sister and her family in your prayers. Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Thomas
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| We made a new friend at the red cross office |
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| Our lil toothbrush party in the church bathroom! We left our toothbrushes at the mission home so our ward fam came in clutch and helped us out |
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