Email 64 - Fasting and Praying for Miracles

Hey guys :)

Thanks for the emails! And the pics. It´s all awesome. Brad´s jazz band sounds legit, thanks for the recording!

Did you all just love General Conference? ´Cuz I did! We got to watch the Saturday morning and the Sunday morning sessions live, and I just felt a whopping connection to each of you, knowing that you were all watching the same thing, and we even got to sing together! (kinda) How cool is that??

We also got to watch the Saturday afternoon session on Sunday, but I still haven´t seen the Sunday afternoon session... it was on past our bedtime. BUT the sessions that I did see, I loved, and every single one of the questions/concerns on the list I´d prepared was very specifically addressed by either the speaker or the Spirit they invited. 

I won´t lie, this week, as I got into bed everynight, it hit me just how crazy my life is going to be in January- getting out to school the day after classes start...not having textbooks yet...still not having a major....not knowing my roommates...schlepping around in SNOW, and probably wondering why I´m not still in Spain, haha. So a good chunk of my questions for Conference had to do with relaxing about not knowing what exactly is up next. 

I just got some very, very specific instructions for what to do right when I get out to Provo, and then I just had an overwhelming impression that said, "Do this, and I´ll take care of you."

Sooooo no more worrying! That feels pretty nice :) 

Hermana H and I are doing great. I´m pretty sure we´re both finally over our colds (haha...yeah, it´s just a matter of time when your companion gets sick...), and I´ve been loving this HUGE push we´re seeing from President Jackson and all of our leaders here in the mission for setting goals and reaching them, "si o si." We´ve spent this week praying and fasting for a very specific miracle, and tonight, we´re going to challenge E-----o, Y-----a, and A----n to be baptized at the end of the month. If you´d like to send a prayer up as well, it´d be much appreciated. We really want to see this family baptized. I don´t think I´ve ever wanted anything so badly on the mission, and if they don´t accept, it certainly won´t be because we didn´t do absolutely everything we could.

Anyway, one thing I´ve been seeing a lot of lately, too, both in what happened this week and in Conference, is the power that comes from fulfilling your calling, whatever it is you´ve been called to do. Just do it!! It feels so good when we contact, when we teach, when we make phone calls, and when we just do everything we possibly can because this is my chance to wear this little piece of plastic on my chest and it´s not gonna be there forever!

And life has been treating us well over here. We still have failed appointments, and it seems like everyone´s working the exact same hours...so fitting in appointments with everyone at the same times is tricky. Contacting still isn´t easy. We still have people that know the church is true but hide behind doubts to keep themselves from progressing, and we still have days when I´m just suuuuper grateful that they´re over. But that being said, my desires are in the right place and we´re working hard.

We had an adorable Noche de Hogar with a bunch of young families and their rowdy children, and managed to control the situation and have a freaking cute lesson on the armor of God, complete with cardboard armor and little velcro things that had "bad things" written on them (can stick to you when you don´t have the armor on, but not with it! Pretty good, right?).

We found out we get to go to the temple on the 15th. Heck yessss!

We´re becoming buddies with a bunch of the refugees that live in the center in our area (as you heard in the recording). The two guys that stopped us, Wasim and Besher, are super interested in what I had to tell them about what they need to do to find out if God exists. I´m way stoked to get to talk to them some more.

Oh, and did you all see the trailer for that "Meet the Mormons" movie that they have on lds.org?? That looks super duper legit. Invite your friends!! Heck, invite my friends!!

Hope you all have an awesome week :) Love ya tons.

-Hna Grover

Here are the pics I snapped today...I´ll try to be better next week, haha.

Love youuuu!