This week was pretty great. We had it themed "Minggu Nabi" or Prophet Week, since we were preparing for General Conference. We were focusing every lesson on prophets and what their role is in our lives and why we need one right now. It didn't go quite as well as we planned but it still got us excited for General Conference. By the end of the week I was feeling pretty stressed, because not one person said that they were going to come to conference. I know that God still speaks to us and I know He still calls a prophet in these days, and it brings me much peace and understanding to know this. I just wanted to help someone feel this amazing feeling too. But lesson after lesson we were rejected. By Conference, we prayed that just someone, anyone, even a less active member would just come to conference, but Saturday came and went, and nobody came. The Sunday morning session ended and no sign of an investigator. Finally the Sunday afternoon session started. We were hoping and praying so hard. But nobody was there. Before it had started we had called one of our investigators and she said that she was going to come but she would be late, because the afternoon session was starting 30 minutes before schedule. I was worrying because she might not be able to get to the church by the time conference ended. During the Congregational hymn in the middle of the session, we went out to see if she had come yet, no sign. But, we found one of our former investigators sitting in one of the back rows of the chapel! Wow! But wait, there's more! As the went out at the end of the conference to meet this investigator, we found 2 other former investigators and the one current investigator coming out of the church as well! Miracles do happen! God sometimes doesn't answer our prayers in the ways that we expect, but He always hears our prayers and will answer them, sometimes just not in the way we want or expect. God will never leave us alone.
See you next week! Sister Stringham
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AuthorHOLLEY STRINGHAM: Salt Lake City, born and raised; returned missionary from the Indonesia Jakarta Mission.; a simple folk aimed on changing the world Archives
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