Christmas Card - Midland, December 2016

December 19th - Midland, TX

Howdy Y'all :) 

This week has been a complete roller coaster!! Sunday especially! So many miracles sooo many!! God is so good I hope you all know that! He definitely gives us hard blessings to recognize the good ones that much easier! 

So first off Wednesday! Wednesday was insane! Almost everything fell through all of our lessons and plans and I felt like a complete chump. It was a very difficult day BUT we had a dinner appointment that night that we were an hour late too because we were teaching a lesson ( the one that we had) and it went pretty well. I personally felt horrible because we were so late! Anyway, we went in and the ward youth were everywhere and the elders were already there. We walked in and they all were so happy and told us to sit down and open our Christmas presents that they had all got for us! BLESSINGS!! Everyone was so kind and loving. God knew we would need that that day and made sure we felt his love! So many AMAZING people here in Texas! 

So fast forward to Sunday. OH MY GOODNESS. CRAZY!! So we were fasting this Sunday for one of our investigators so I'm hungry and not always the happiest when I am hungry....sorry Sister Penner....and Church wow. I love the branch soooo much!! So we invited Mark to church this week and we was yea sure can I bring some friends and we were all like YEA!!! So crazy awesomeness there! And the best part is HE CAME WITH 4 FOUR FRIENDS!! ALL NONMEMBERS INTERESTED IN THE GOSPEL!! WHAT? WHAT! RIGHT! I'm going crazy too!! And then we stayed after and talked with them and got to know them better. 3 of them are deaf and sister Penner was going crazy cause she knows ASL and was super excited to talk to them and get to know them! 

Anyways so yea craziness. Awesome sauce! But wait it gets better!!! So after church we all went out and contacted this girl who never answers and we caught her literally right before she was going to work!! The Spirit is so real guys like oh my goodness! Okay so we finished talking to her and her mom and saw we had a missed call from our neighbor and we were all like hmm I wonder what that is. He left a voice mail and we listened to it and apparently our apartment flooded/was flooding. So we go back to our apartment and were freaking out and trying to think of what we left going and we couldn't think of anything. (background info the day before it was like 80 degrees in the morning and dropped down to 26 degrees! all I can say is Texas) so apparently our pipe froze and burst so that was slightly really unfortunate. 

Anyways we were apartment bound for a while and then finally broke our fast ( it was like 6 I was dying) and then when all was well we went to Family Home Evening and Tony was there. OH MY GOODNESS TONY. I cant even come up with the words to describe tony. HE IS SO PREPARED! Like oh my goodness. If a person could be awesome sauce it would be Tony! We had a great message about Christ and I got to bear my testimony which was gooood. (like good for me to feel the spirit...hopefully it was good to everyone else...) and then sister Thacker bless her soul saved us some warm soup and we sat down and were eating and Tony wasn't there for the dinner either so he sat down with us and ate some delicious soup and then this is where is gets good. 

Somehow I cant even remember now but Tony asked us what our 3 favorite scriptures were in the book of Mormon and we had like this crazy amazing lesson and there was this member there who brought the spirit and Brother Thacker was there like listening in form afar and then jumped and shared this incredible testimony with experience and then the spirit was going off like bombs is was insane. SOO GOOD!!! SO GOOD! And then we asked him if he found out the Book of Mormon was true what would he do and we were like well I'd do what it says ( we talked about real intent and all that good jazz) and then we invited him to be baptized and he was like yea absolutely and I think I died. Like oh my goodness I was having spiritual heart attacks! it was SUCH AN AMAZING LESSON like OH MY GOODNESS!! wow. just wow. So yea that's all I have time for today if you want to know more write me ;)

Love SISTER Allart :)

December 12th - Midland, TX

I apologize I haven't had much time to send stuff and I don't have much time to email today so sorry but ITS AMAZING OUT HERE SOOOO MANY AMAZING PEOPLE!!! 

God is soo good! I am in Midland Texas right now serving in the YSA branch and absolutely loving every minute of it!! Elder Rasband came and spoke to us which was amazing!! So many miracles so many!! Unfortunately i don't have time to write much more than that so if you want to know more write me ;) love you all so much!! i really do!! 

i hope i have more time next week! 

Love SISTER Anneke Allart