Miracles!!!

So, I'm sure you all have heard "obedience brings blessings, but exact obedience brings miracles". Well, I have a testimony of that! Me and my companion work hard. We try our best, but then the Lord shows us we aren't doing everything we can... I woke up one day just sad and down. I had no idea why! Then I was thinking about it, and I realized... I am not doing everything I should be doing. I´m obedient, but I´m not doing everything I can to be EXACTLY obedient. I cant go home regretting my mission knowing I could have seen more miracles, but I didn't do my best. Mostly, I was starting to regret coming on a mission. twelve weeks in the field, and we haven't had a single baptism. We have come close, but we haven't gotten it yet. The mission is really hard! And it starts to get to ya.. well, Satan starts to get to you. And he works hard. So anyway, I went in and talked to my companion. We decided things had to change. We are praying for help in our work, but what are we doing to help the  Lord help us? Not enough! So that day we decided to change and do everything we could be be EXACTLY obedient. Sometimes, we can be obedient without having that same exactness. And this day, we saw miracles. The other hermanas we live with had a baptism, and if we bring investigators we can go! So we called all our investigators.. and They went. MIRACLE. THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED. Our lessons were so much better, my Spanish was so much better, the Members could go with us.. literally, everywhere we turned we saw a miracle! small, big.. whatever! they were miracles! then the baptism came. the bishop was late.. so the baptism started late.. and we have to be in the house at 9. 9:30 on special occasions... crap. the baptism finally starts at about 8:45. it ends at 9:15. We have a ten minute walk to our house... we book it out of the church as fast as we can! then, we realized we have a key to get into the gate, but not a key to get into the house. Our key doesn't work, it is a bad copy. We have tried every day in hopes that one day it will work. and it hasn't. so we get home, 9:28. A little voice came to my head "just try the key."

"no, it doesn't work. we know it." 

"just try it" 

so me and my companion pray. We were EXACTLY obedient today, and we did our very best. and because the other hermanas have the only working key, we cant keep this obedience with exactness. we have tried so hard, and done so well all day, and because of this, we will have failed. 

again, "JUST TRY THE KEY." 

And the key worked. 

If we are exactly obedient to the laws and rules given to us, we will see the blessings. With this story in mind, Read 1 Nephi 3:7. The Lord provides a way. I know that to be true!! Especially because the key hasn't worked since then either! The Lord blesses us when we are obedient with exactness! 

I love you all, and hope you have  wonderful 24 of July! Happy celebrations!! 

Love, Hermana Arave