Lots of thinking, lots of people, and lots of opportunity!

Hooray for pictures!!!!!! At least one C:

So, with my companion healing from her tooth extraction, we didn't get the chance to  work all day every day, but she is feeling better! :) I had a lot of time this week to study and think and change things up! Every study I had this week, I learned the same thing... THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS to the people God wants to return to him! Everyone gets the same opportunity to repent, to be baptized, to come back to church, to learn again, to relight that flame of a testimony! Everyone gets the same chance. The same opportunity. There are no exceptions! I think God had something for me to learn! And as I really had this on my mind all week, and put it into practice,  I felt more power in my day, more strength to finish out, more motivation to  be bold, more urgency to proclaim this gospel!!

Also, I learned that we wont see the fruits of out labors right away. I thought I knew that, but this week, no one wanted it. haha NO one wanted to progress, people asked us to stop visiting, People told us they dont want to do the things we are asking them to do. Then yesterday, I was sitting in sacrament meeting, thinking on my week and a wave of sadness hit me. It was a "whyyyy am I here? why was I called here? I feel like what I am doing is NOTHING..." moment. which, those happen a lot! :) But then the lord blesses us with a small tender mercy, and we are reminded that He has a plan, just wait a little longer. Hold on just a tad more. Tighten your grip just a little, and the blessings will come when He sees fit. This time, it was in the form of a testimony. One of the members bore her testimony on how my companion and I had gone to visit her just in her weakest moment, just when she didn't think she could go much longer. That was such a small thing we did, that ended up being the answer to her prayer, just like she was for mine yesterday.

This week we had to take a taxi to get home in time, and when we were sitting in the taxi, I felt the need to ask the taxi man how his day was. Weird, but that is okay! ha So I ask, and we begin talking to him! It turns out that he is a member! He has been inactive for quite some time, but this past few months, he has been feeling like God is calling him back to church. He is scared to go back, but he said " I just feel this urgency... this urgency to return.." PLEASE COME BACK!!! It was such an incredible moment as he shared with us his feelings, fears, and desires to come back. So we got his information, and sent it off so someone could go visit  him. I hope that the missionaries go, and that he follows through with the desires that he has!
I am so happy to be a missionary. The times are changing, and people are being prepared! I am so lucky to have this opportunity!! I love being a missionary! :)

I hope you all have a wonderful week!! I love you all, stay safe!

Hermana Arave

PS, CONGRATULATIONS to my cousin Kaisha who will be turning in her mission papers in the next few weeks!!!!!:):) This is the greatest! :)