errand of angels~‏

HI FAM!

Well it’s the start of my 2nd to last transfer. I was a bit saddened to put away yet another daily planner last night as I wrote in our weeks numbers. Sister Winterton and I are staying but have to go to transfers bc…..we are getting another sister! Yeah…another trio!..... hahaha, its all good. We’ll see how this trio goes :D We ended the transfer with the best week we’ve had yet. Tracting acutally felt a bit productive this week! We taught 17 lessons which is the hightest for the transfer by over double! And got 3 new investigators!!!! Wahoo! We finally got investigators! It’s the 4th watch. :D We are really excited, and what a way to start the new transfer! Woot woot! We’re prayin hard for these new people. We went to Manhattan for a dr. appt and on our way back we had an awesome experience. As we went through the turn style (?) we saw an indian lady strugglin with groceries. (I hate groceries in the city) She gladly accepted our offer to help. We walked to her home with her which ended up being right across the mission office. She invited us in for juice and we gladly accepted :D We sat in her room on the floor (different style of lounging I guess :D ) and talked for a bit. She is from Pakistan and the only one here. A brother in TX but she is alone. We somehow got on the subject of mothers and she just had such great stuff to say about her mom and I asked if she was in TX or Pakistan. She then hung her head and was silent a bit and said that her mom was dead. We gave our apologies and she said she had just died that morning…. That is why she wasn’t at work that day. I pulled out a pos pamphlet and taught her a short lesson. She just stared at the pic of Christ for at least a minute as we sat in silence. It was sad bc the flight to pakistan is 24 hrs and they bury them there rather quickly. So she was not going to be able to say her last good-bye. As we were leaving she asked where the church was and said she would like to come with us sometime. She only wanted to if we were there…. But then we offerend to send our friends over so that she could get to know them and then go with them :D This worked. She offerred any help to the church of any sort bc her mother taught her to always serve. As we left I was so humbled. Heavenly Father is so aware of each and every one of his children. We were able to be instruments in His hands that day and be angels to a lonely aching woman and hopefully leave her with more hope than what the Muslim religion gives her. What a great lady. The Lord truly does answer our prayers through other ppl. More than we even realize. We just have to step back and reflect so that we don’t miss those answers. While tracting we came up on a man on the ground on the corner. He was squirming, holding his back, crying. I tried talking to him, he finally said he didn’t speak english. (he was hispanic) What a blessing when I guy was riding past who spoke spanish. The man had just been beaten. He tried to get up and fell again. We ran to get the car bc we had left the phone. We were gonna call the spanish elders. By the time we got back he was wobbling to the back of a house. We suspected his. We had been talking to the police dept on the phone and they were able to take care of it from there. So sad…. This world. It was all bc of racial differences too. Hatred to our fellow men. Well, as for now I think that wraps up all the good stuff. I will let you know how it goes with our new investigators next Monday J I love you all and hope you have a blessed week~

Love,

Sister Phillips