November 6, 2018

Bonjour! This week has been so great! We had stake conference and we had a member of the seventy come, elder Hamilton. I got to meet him, just happened to walk by! And the most beautiful thing happened. One of our amies, David who just got baptized like two months ago met him too. (He had no idea who he was talking to haha) but elder Hamilton asked him how old he was and he said 14. Then he said, ``in 4 years, you are going to go on a mission to Africa, and you are going to save your people``....... WHAT??? it was the coolest thing I have ever heard! He blessed him with that! It was truly a miracle! I didn`t understand a lot of the conference beacuse i am still learning to understand, but the spirit was so strong. elder Hamilton said that because the missionaries here are so diligent, there would one day in the near future be a temple in Quebec City! That is amazing!! Something else cool that happened was that our sister training leaders called us and said that they felt very inspired to have one more exchange. it was really odd because we had just had one, but they both felt like they needed to have one so we did yesterday. It was lovely. I went with sister Ferger, which was special because she is going home on Wednesday. I was really grateful to be her last exchange. We had a lot of really good contacts yesterday and I learned so much form her. She is truly the missionary I aspire to be. Another cool miracle this week was that we randomly found some Napali pamphlets in our cupboard. We both felt really inspired to bring them with us and that day we met someone from Napali named Bhim Jaj. AND the next day we met a woman named Kalpana who is also from Napali. That was a cool miracle because we had only like ten minutes to spare before we had to run to an appointment. we chose one building and one door. I had been eyeing the building and sr Lawrence chose the door. She let us come in! We gave her a Napali pamphlet and she was really surprised we had one! We talked a little about our message and we told her where our church was and she recognized it! she said she had a friend who went there. She also said that her friend gave her a book. I was the Book of Mormon! And she had been reading it! She is almost halfway done! She said that it has made her believe in Jesus!. We were internally screaming as you can imagine. Later as we were looking on area book, we found that missinaries had knocked on their door before but only the grandma who only spoke Napali answered. The missionaries then couldnt communicate with them, but beacuse of them they ordered pamphlets in Napali which is why they were in our cupboard. Heavenly Father always makes sure that things work out for his faithful children. It was an amazing experience. We will be going back to teach her and her family more. She is elect. The last cool thing is that transfer calls were on Saturday and I will be staying here with my trainer for another transfer! I am so excited! I am so ready to work hard and make this next month and a half I have in Quebec city one of miracles! I hope that all is well and that you feel your Savior`s love every day. Love, soeur Bates