Week 46 - Woohoo God is Good

OH THIS WEEK WAS SO FUN. Okay so first of all i am so bad with directions. I would literally get lost going anywhere but was hilarious is here where the directions are, go up a little and then to your right and you should see this big building and then its a little more up, I CAN FIND IT. me and hna oswald got to go and explore a little more of quito this week to meet more of the hermanas and oh my was it fun not getting lost. Kidding we did get lost a lot but we know spanish and as missionaries you learn to talk to anyone and everyone and that definitely helped us find the other hermanas. But Quito is CRAZY AND BIG. But that took a big chunk out of every morning this week and my companion has been struggling a bit with her health and some days it kept us inside but this week i can truly testify that as we do what the Savior asks of us HE WILL COMPLETE HIS PROMISE. HE WILL PICK UP OUR SLACK. This was probably the most craziest part of my mission. We were all over the place running around quito visiting hermanas in the morning and visiting when we could, doing our studies, calling people and being told no, the normal missionary life. But we stayed obedient, we stayed happy and calm, and we continued to have faith in Jesus Christ. Now why did i just confuse you all with my week schedule? Because i think this is every day for every one. Rarely do we actually have a week where everything goes how we planned. But yet God is working with us and helping us complete with what we need to get done. This week we were able to see miracles left and right and ill give a brief explanation of a few down below: We had contacted a lady and her daughter about 2 weeks ago and we scheduled a day we could go visit them. she ended up sending us a message saying she couldnt and scheduled it for a day this week. We called her to confirm and she gave us the direction of the street Atalhualpa and i have a black door... now that street is SO LONG but i had prayed asking heavenly father to bless us with someone knew to teach so what did we do? started walking down that road knocking on all the black doors, to no luck we knocked on a green door and a lady opened her window and we ended up teaching her about the restauration of the gospel and the book of mormon and as we were finishing she goes... you know what, you should go visit my neighbor, her husband just passed away and she could use this. so we went to her neighbors and knocked on her door, not even realizing it was a black door... and out walks the ladies daughter and they allowed us to go inside and teach them about the plan of salvation. Now we thought her husband passed away but sunday we passed by and found her husband too!!!! what a miracle.and a testimony of the love God has for each of us to answer our prayers in every moment. otro milagro: a cute single mom has been preparing for her baptism and wanted to wait until her mom from the coast was coming to visit to be baptized. Her mom has met with missionaries before but has never accepted the gospel fully, anyway her mom got here and she surprised her mom with the news of her baptism. The day of her baptism she walked in with the saddest face. Her mom had the plainest face and wouldnt really talk to us. We walked into the bathroom to get her changed and she just broke down crying. She thought her mom would be happy for her and her decision. It was such a cool oportunity as me and my companion were able to promise her that as she came up from the water, she would feel free of those thoughts and problems and feel so incredibly happy. As she walked down from the font after she was baptized she looked at us and said.. hermanas, you didnt tell me to plug my nose!!! we laughed and gave her a hug and just saw the biggest smile on her face. Her mom by the end had realized how important this was to her and calmed her emotions a little and was able to come to church the next day with her daughter and support her in that incredible decision she made.  un otro: as i sat in church this sunday me and my companion watched the room fill up. It was so incredible to watch people for the first time walk into the church, for the first time in a long time enter, and to see families walk in complete, not just the mom, not just the kids but complete families. One of those families has been visiting with missionaries for years and the wife is a member and 2 of the kids, but the father is a bit funny. he loves meeting with the missionaries but it is so hard to get him to act. But as we visited them after church, he told us he has made a promise with God that he will give the church a shot this month of february. He then goes on to talk about his new friends and how hes gonna go camp with them at the temple (the church building) this weekend.  These moments this week made me want to cry, because i know with all of my heart that Heavenly Father hears our prayers, he listens to us when we are happy, sad, discouraged, you name it. He wants to help us he wants to bless us, we just have to not complain and go with the flow having faith in God. This week i studied in 1 nefi 4 when sariah complains and is frustrated with lehi for being a visionary man and sending her kids back to jerusalem to be killed. The response that Lehi gives her is the best ever. What i took from it was that that was not a commandment from man. It was a commandment from God. How many times to we doubt our ward leaders or doubt the prophet or the idea of the 5 year old to make cookies and send it to someone? A lot. I know i have. but what i was doing, was doubting God. He speaks through his servants, which is all of us!!!! Every good thing comes from God. As we can realize that the things we have been asked to do in this life comes from god, we wont have the desire to complain. We will have the desire to act.  My challenge for all of you this week is to act. Act on every thought you have. If it will help uplift someone, help spread joy, help build the kingdom of God, STOP DOUBTING AND COMPLAINING JUST GO AND DO. We are all called to be servants of God on this earth so act like it! We all have such great potential that we will only reach if we act!!!  I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH AND HAVE SUCH A GREAT WEEK FE EN DIOS INCLUYE FE EN SU TIEMPO HERMANA CAMPBELL