Gaerwen Week 6

This week has been so amazing! The work here in Gaerwen is going so well and I can really see the hand of the Lord in all that we do. Yesterday, we found out that Sister Mueller and I are both going to be staying in Gaerwen for another 6 weeks (Sister Mueller's last transfer). I am excited to be able to work with her again.

Our friend Martin is still doing really well. He is still working on word of wisdom challenges but he says he is getting better every day. He is also reading the Book of Mormon and praying almost every day. The other day, we went over to his home with the Elders in Porthmadog and gave him a blessing to help him quit smoking. They blessed him that he would be able to have the strength necessary to do the things that are required him. It was such a spiritual experience because it affirmed to me that we can be strengthen and supported through the atonement of Jesus Christ, no matter what our challenge may be.

We also had a really good lesson with our friend Alex. This week, we taught him the importance of reading the Book of Mormon and praying. The lesson went so well because we brought a ward member along who served a mission where Alex is from. Our member friend, Fred, shared Helaman 5:12 with Alex and bore his testimony that it is only when we are built upon a solid foundation that we can be safe in this world. It really helped Alex to understand that reading his scriptures is a way to help build that solid foundation. I know that if we do the small and simple things, like reading and praying, that we will have the foundation we need to withstand the storms of the adversary.

The last Monday of every transfer we have something called miracle Monday, where as a mission we try to find 150 new friends. This Monday, our mission President also put a focus on working with returning members. There were a few returning members that some of the active members had suggested we visit so we took yesterday afternoon to visit them. It really was a miracle because two of the returning members we visited just happened to home on on Monday in the early afternoon and had time to talk. One of them invited us back and the other said she is going to attend church on the 2nd. Things always seem to work out the way they're supposed to.