Just a couple of miracles!

Things are really good here in Phitsanulok!  I wish everyone could come here and talk to the members and get to know Thailand!  It's awesome!  This week... the weather was really hot!  This week.. we ate a lot of Somtam.  This week... we saw several miracles, and probably many more that I didn't even notice!  It was a good week!  Especially for all of you that got to watch Conference!  Conference is the BEST! :D  YAY!  Watch it. :)

Here are a couple of miracles.  Talk about incredible.

1. Last Monday, a man walked into the church during Family Home Evening.  Nobody recognized him, so the other sisters went over and started talking to him.  I honestly don't know a whole ton about him, except that he really was prepared by God!  Wow.  I think his baptismal date is this week!  We literally did NOTHING to find him, as it says in Preach My Gospel (I think :)) God will either place prepared people in your way, or they'll find you!  Wowza.  That is incredible.

2. On Thursday Sister Stewart and I had an appointment pit, and so, on a thought, I mentioned a less active member of the church who lives about a 30 minute bike ride away.  We decided to go visit her, so we hopped on our bikes and pulled up at her work!  Just as we pulled up a younger girl who we got to teach until she stopped meeting with us because of tests at school randomly shouted out to us and came up to say hello!  Meanwhile the less active member, who saw us and was not necessarily happy to see us, snuck off.  The miracle that happened was... this young girl Oom.  Is the granddaughter of the boss of this less active.  We found this less active member and began talking to her.  We literally saw her heart soften from "I'm going to avoid these missionaries" to sitting down together.  This member talking about her mission fondly, and remembering what kind of work she did and why!  Wow.  I think there still may be some obstacles to be overcome before we can help her come back to church.  But think of how intricate and perfect that meeting was.  We came right as her work ended.  Sister Oom was there right in time to see us and soften this member's heart towards us.  Wow.  AMAZING!

3. Maybe like a week ago, Sister Stewart and I were at 7/11.  And this man said "Hey Sisters, how are you?" or something like that!  Sister Stewart asked him how he knew the sisters... well... it turns out he is a less active member of the church!  We had an appointment with him that didn't work out... and then that very same night we ran into him at the grocery store randomly.  Yesterday we met him at the church and talked with him.  He explained how he hadn't planned on going to the grocery store, but he felt tired so he went to go get some coffee.  He pulled up to the grocery store and saw our bikes, and thought that that was weird.  But it's a big store!  So the odds of us seeing each other weren't very good.  But right as we were leaving and he was going in we ran into each other.   He said something that I really loved!  He said "I don't know why I keep running into you, there is only one person that knows why I keep seeing you!  God!"  Wow.  Amazing!  I'm so excited to get to meet with him more!  

I'm sure God's hand is in our lives so much more than we know!  I love the verses in 3 Nephi where Christ says "How oft have I gathered you... how oft do I gather you... how oft will I gather you!"  It's amazing to see that God works with people way before missionaries get there.  And that He is always looking to gather us and help us!  It's not just the lost sheep that He's looking to gather under His wings either!  He cares for each of the 99 and He knows the 1.

I love you so much!  And I hope you have a wonderful week!  Next week :)  I'm pretty sure I'll have watched Conference too!  Hoorah!  Hopefully... I'll get to watch it in English :P  Though... I guess if I don't... it could be because we had an investigator come.  So maybe... hopefully I DON'T get to watch it in English :)

Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Croft

P.S. here are some pictures from Saturday... we helped someone move... and so we ended up all traveling on a big open moving truck through beautiful parts of Thailand.  It was kinda fun! :)  And really hot.  :)  But really good! :)  Hopefully it's not bad that my Ma snapped a photo of me and my little brother (we technically are in the same group... so he's my twin.  Buuuuut.  He just graduated from high school.  So he can be my little brother!)  I promise we weren't the only ones there :)  Annnd.  A 9 year old girl who is so sweet got baptized on Sunday!  The church is growing! :)  Hooray! :)  That's all!