Dear Chicago : This Week!

Hello

This week has been just great.

First off we had transfers which was good, you know I just love these meetings it just lifting my soul to the level it needs to be at, and then I am ready to go and work my heart out.

We have been able to teach Oso this week, it was good! We had her friend who is a member come to the lesson. Oso asked what the Holy Ghost feels like. Sis. Goff opened up to a scripture out of no where. (Let me tell you something, this girl! She has a talent for knowing her scriptures!! Wow, I am just like let the holy spirit guide! She just randomly opens up during the lesson and it fits perfectly. She has a pure spirit.)

Anyways!

So we talked a little about how the Holy Ghost feels, and tried to help her understand. Then we had the impression to ask sis. Bat (sis. Bat just started coming back to church about two months ago) what her first time feeling the spirit was like, she shared it with us, and afterwards she turned to us and explained how she really needed to hear that experience again to remember why she is a member of the church and the feeling. So that was so great. Then later Oso asked us about baptism and why we decided to be baptized.

She is from Mongolia and grew up Buddhists so its a neat experience to teach her, because well it different!

Then we met with Mark. When we first met with him the first thing he said was," I know your view on baptism and I do not agree" so we were like... Well this is a problem, but he was super nice about it! Anyways he was telling us about how he is in and out of the hospital, because of his sickness and so we taught him about the apostasy a little and priesthood then extended the invite for a blessing. He agreed! We had the elder go over and give one to him and it went so well. He called us up after and expressed his appreciation to us for getting that all lined up and much better he felt. His heart is becoming more soften to the idea of being baptized and he said that we will be seeing him at church.

I got to go to the temple to see Tammy do baptisms for the dead!!! Which was so good, so cool. And then right after the Robles family in our Ward got sealed! It was such a special experience. I haven't ever seen before. But wow. That was cool.

We met this guy in Dunkin Donuts yesterday. We were just there loading stuff off our iPads and as we getting ready to leave sis. Goff saw this guy, she was like, "should we talk to him? Let's go talk to him" as we start talking to him he realizes who we are. Turns out he is from Pakistan and got shot by the Taliban and is here now, but a relative of his is Mormon in Pakistan and he was visiting with elders in Bangkok before he came moved here!! He was so excited to see us, and was just like, "take down me address, here is my number, come to my house at this time this day!" We were just like frantically writing!

He was waiting for his wife to finish working, and he had us go over to his while she was working at at the cash register and we introduced ourselves, and he was like, "they're Mormons!" She was happy to know this too, she greeted us with a smile.

There has been many miracles this week, lots of tender mercies and I know that the Lord is involved in this work, because it is his. If we allow ourselves to humbly submit to his will we will see things come together.

I love being a missionary. I have the opportunity to talk to people all the time, everywhere I go about God, Jesus Christ, the spirit, the Book of Mormon and it is completely fine! Because people expect it from me. I love being here. It's so hard, depressing, exhausting, exciting, powerful and glorious all in one. But that's that makes its worth it.

I love you all!

Good luck this week!!

Love, sister Tincher