Our first miracle!

We had our first miracle today!!

It was a very unfortunate series of events that while they were taking place, seemed like the worst things ever, but after the day was over, and we could see everything in perspective, we realized that they were all the best things that could have happened! So first, we were on a 24-hour district fast which made everything a little rougher as my companion and I were hungrier, weaker and more on edge. (You know how I get when I don't eat . . . Yeah, it's not a pretty sight . . . not a good deal)

We put our smiles on when a member came and picked us up to go out teaching with us. We ended up knocking on a door of a former potential investigator and the member who came with us bore her testimony like crazy and I think he felt the Spirit and then freaked out a little so he asked us not to come back. :( So the member drove us back to our apartment and dropped us off, and right as she drove away, we realized my companion had left her purse in the car with the keys to our apartment and our car, and our cell phone!

Here is where the adventures begin! ... We weren't sure what to do because we had no one's number with us and no way to get anywhere unless we used our feet. So, I guess we can walk to people's houses. I mean, after that amazing lesson earlier, something had to go wrong. There is no joy without sorrow. We still have our legs and our feet, Satan hasn't quite claimed those yet . . . So, we walked, and walked, and walked . . . AND . . . walked! (Anyone hearing the tune to Pioneer Children?) We knocked on doors. No one was home. We walked for two hours that day. Maybe three. We walked so long I got some mad blisters on my feet from the supposedly comfortable walking shoes! And my scalp sunburned some more. We were still fasting and we were getting more on edge. It was ALMOST a rough day. :0 (Dare I even write that?!?!?!) Finally, we were able to find someone who would let us use their phone and we called the member who said she would meet us at Kroger in 30 minutes, which meant . . . MORE WALKING!! I swear, the Lord must have just been having a kick out of watching us walk for miles and miles on empty stomachs. So we went to Kroger's and broke our fast on hour early, (we made it 23 hours!) because we were so dehydrated, (I had my purse with money) and bought some gatorades and waited for the member.

So guess who comes to drop our stuff off?! Her 17-year old son!!! >:(  Which means that he couldn't drive us home, so we had to walk ALL THE WAY back to our apartment!!!

We drove to our dinner appointment which was moved back and then decided to take cookies to another lady. We drove up to her house and guess what?  . . . She wasn't even home!!! We left them on her doorstep thinking that almost everything had gone wrong that day and were on our way back to the car when I spotted 3 dogs playing 2 doors down.

In the blink of an eye, I decided to go see the dogs. Because even if it had been an almost, borderline rough day, petting a few dogs would be an awesome thing! Just one good thing to happen in the day.

We approached and asked to pet their dogs. The woman was very nice and open to us doing so, the man was a little stand-off-ish. We talked to the lady about the dogs then my companion started right in about who we were and what we were doing. She's really good at that, I'm still a little show. The lady seemed like she might be more receptive and open to talking about church things than the man. But guess what!?! He became more interesting and joining and listing when he started to hear what were tall about! Turns out, he's really religious and had incredibly high standards (although at our first glance, we may not have judged him so), and he had a ton of respect for us and for God! He was eating all of it up! All the gospel doctrines we kind of threw out there, he totally agreed on and everything! First stranger/potential investigator I've ever had who has been that interested and respectful! And he's coming to church on Sunday and he texted us, he wants to discuss God with us more! I swear we stood out there on his driveway talking to those two for almost two and a half hours!

But here's the miracle . . .we were going to go over to the house 2 doors down from his earlier that day to drop off a birthday treat for his neighbor bur we were never able to because we had no keys and no car! So pretty much the Lord just needed us to do something all long until that night because he knew we needed to talk to that guy and he wasn't going to be there if we had gone earlier!! How crazy is the Lord?! He truly knows everything! And he knew the only way to keep us from going over there too early was to make sure we forgot our keys and our phone and everything else! I just really felt that. That sly big guy in the sky! ;P Besides we needed a hard, humbling experience like that. What a great, wonderful day!

Hope all is going well for you all in Phoenix!