4.9.18: I Don't Even Know

Ok, well I legit have 2 mins to write this... sorry if it is incoherent... but wow! What an amazing week this has been! God is so real!!

Yesterday we met with an investigator and she told us that the first time we knocked on her door she had just gotten off the phone with her sister after telling her about how she wanted to go to a church here in SanSe but she could only find Catholic ones. Of course, we had no idea and no intention of being the answer to this woman's prayer, but somehow the Lord guided us to her door just in the moment that she was ready to receive us! 

A similar thing happened on Saturday morning as well. We met with a woman who is the wife of a menos activo [less active]. The hermanas [sister missionaries] have taught her before, but I had never met her in all of my time here. The other day we called her to set up a visit and see if she was still interested. It turns out that right as we called her, she was leaving her mom's house and had just finished expressing to her mom how she felt guilty for not inviting us to her home and not listening to our message. It had been months since she had met with the missionaries, but right in the moment that she was thinking about us, we happened to call her! Milagros [miracles]! There really are no coincidences in this grand work! God truly directs our paths and somehow uses our imperfect and weak efforts to accomplish His purposes and bring about His work!

Well, I adore you all and hope all is well! Keep living the stoke <3 Also, plan yourself a trip to Spain because it will be the best thing you have ever done for yourself--promise! 

-maddy 

(Maddy and her new comp, Hermana Ney, got to borrow bikes from an investigator on their pday and ride by the sea. Good living.)







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