The Lord's Hand in All Things

Wow, okay I don't even know where to start. There has been so many countless miracles this week. As I was reading Alma 26 today I couldn't help but think of all of the miracles the Lord has blessed Sister Markus and I with this transfer. "I cannot say the smallest part which I feel" of the Love the Lord has for His children and how prominent His hand is in His work. 

(Miracle #1) So, a couple of weeks ago I wrote some letters to a couple of families I didn't get to say goodbye to that live in Las Cruces and this week I got a reply from a couple of them. In one of the letters the member told me that she had a son and daughter-in-law that lived in Albuquerque, and that I should go and try to find them. Which was super exciting but Albuquerque is pretty big and the area I am in is pretty small so I didn't know how likely it was that her family was going to live in my area, but we typed it in the GPS and you'll never believe it THEY ARE IN OUR AREA. Yeah, so cool! So we went over to visit them and low and behold they were home and want us to come back this Saturday! Such a huge miracle.

(Miracle #2) Remember that Deaf man we met a couple of weeks ago? So, so we went back to try and see him again and he was super excited to see us and we are going back to see him this week and the biggest miracle in the whole situation is that when we told our Bishop that we were going to start teaching the Deaf man and we both sign he got really excited because his oldest son is Deaf! Who would have guessed! He told us that he wants us to pray to find all of the Deaf people in our area so that we can teach all of them. Then he gave us these LDS ASL dictionaries and a challenge to say all of our prayers in Sign Language. Which as we have been doing that our prayers have been so amazing and super meaningful, because we really have to think about what we are going to say and it is just amazing. We are convinced we are going to make a Deaf Branch here in ABQ.

(Miracle #3) When our Bishop was called to be our Bishop he had a very strong feeling that every single door in our ward needed to be knocked by the full time missionaries and then huge miracles would be brought to pass. So we looked at our map before we went knocking and picked a street that hasn't been knocked and headed out. As we were knocking this street we knocked into a family that used to be members but had their records removed. As they did they asked for the members not to come around. Well all in all the Missionaries are the only people that can contact them and we just "happened" to knock on their door when it was raining and the just "happened" to let us in. Come to find out they had talked with the missionaries before us too. I know that the Lord truly is aware of them and is softening their hearts little by little. 

Love you all lots and hope you are realizing the Lord's hand in your everyday lives. 

FUNNY QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

1. "If there is a flood I will be the first one to go, because I don't know how to swim." -Sister Petty

2. (At 7:45 at night) "Go home! It's late! You're gonna get shot and then yell *yells* 'FERNANDO!!' and I'm gonna say sorry I can't here you I'm Deaf."' - Fernando PS We were in a real safe part of down just FYI haha

3. "Run away from all clowns! They're here in Albuquerque run away!" -Sister Petty

4. "Now don't stand too close to doors or someone may pull you in!" -Sister Petty

Haha This week has been such a fun adventure! Too many funny quotes. Oh by the way Sister Petty is an older Native American Lady and is just the funniest thing! 

Oh and Sister Markus is teaching me Navajo!! 

Oh and P-Days are going to be on Mondays from now on. Just a heads up(:

Sister Gibbons, Sister Aguillon and I     

Can't have a book exchange
without a Book of Mormon    

The Spanish Elders almost hit our car.
Yup, that was a close call.    

PUMPKIN STEAMERS!!     

Hikes are fun    

German May be the Celestial Language, but Albuquerque is the Celestial Mission

I can't tell you enough how much I love General Conference. And what was truly amazing is that I was able to take several questions to the different sessions of Conference and you will never believe it. I got answers to ALL of my questions! Yeah, not just one or two answers but every single question I had was answered with a resounding impact on me, so much that I cannot deny how much our Father in Heaven knows us, and he doesn't just know us as a cluster of his children, but he knows us, each of us so personally. He knows what we are going through and He knows the ups and the downs and He knows you better than you know yourself. Something else that I found was super interesting was that not one of the speaker came out and said "Sister Wade, here is your answer. This is what you need to do." But it was by the subtle feelings of the Spirit that I was able to receive answers. I know that the Spirit teaches all of us, but we get the choice to listen with our Spiritual ears and hear the whispers of the spirit or to listen with only our physical ears. The choice is ours. Buuuuutttt for those of you that didn't catch it during the Saturday Afternoon Session that President Eyring mentioned Albuquerque and when he served his mission here and it was so exciting, and all of us missionaries just loved it.(:

But anyways, we have been teaching this girl named, Kelsey, and she is seriously the cutest little mom ever. She is Native American and she is just so cute. We have been struggling to get her to come to church and a miracle happened because she drove all the way across town to come and watch General Conference with us. And when she came she brought her little girl, Kasey who is four, and Kasey sat through conference completely quite just listening and THEN she told us she was so excited and wanted to come to the Sunday Session of Conference too!! It was seriously such a huge miracle, and we were all so excited(:

I just love being a missionary and love seeing the Lord's hand in all things. I know that he is there. I know that His Son lives and that He knows each of us. If we turn to Him we will see that He has always been waiting for us to come to Him and partake of the blessings he has to offer. I love this gospel with everything that I am. 

Love you all so much! Have the best day ever! 

-Sister Wade

FUN FACTS:

1. So we met this cute family at Conference that were refugees from Africa and they came to watch the prophet speak even though they didn't really even speak English. In fact only the dad new a little, but they were being taught by missionaries in Africa and they knew how important keeping the Sabbath day Holy and listening to the prophet is so they came. And they said they want to be baptized so yeah!! 

2. We were calling former investigators and called this lady named Maria and she told us she was so excited we called and wanted us to come by, so we did and come to find out she is already a member in the Spanish Branch! haha who knew!!