Hello Friends and Family (:
It hasn't been long since I last emailed but the past 3 days have been filled! This week I was able to witness some incredible things.
So everyone knows my sweet family from Fairborn...Kathy, Darrell, and Bradi! Well, Darrell was baptized on Saturday! This family is everything to me. I feel so blessed to have been a part of their journey! They are all members of the church! 1 year and they can be sealed together as a family
Ken passed his interview for baptism!!
Here is our miracle story:
Ken needed to come to church yesterday so he could be baptized this Saturday. Well, we went an hour and 15 mins before church with Sister Cardoza to take him breakfast and get him to church. He didn't answer his phone (we called like 20 times), rang his doorbell about 40 times, knock extremely hard like 30 times, and we knelt in prayer on his doorstep...so we left because we had another investigator who was planning on going to church who needed to follow us since he didn't know where the church was. The member said if he called right before church she would drive out with us to get him. While we were driving to our investigators, I had a prompting that we could take Ken to the Powell Ward at 1 PM. So we start text the zone leaders, President Daines, and kept trying Ken. We got approval from President 5 mins before we needed to leave...and we had no member to go. We ran outside and saw Sister Cardoza...before we could get a word out of our mouths she immediately said, "are we going to him?" We were like...AHHH yes.... And explained that we had a plan to go to Powell. She told us to get in the car and let's go. We got to Ken’s and did the same routine. He didn't answer his phone (we called like 20 times), rang his doorbell about 40 times, knock extremely hard like 30 times, and we knelt in prayer on his doorstep...but this time our prayer was a little different...we exercised more faith. Imagine two sister missionaries, all dressed nicely, kneeling in spider cobwebs on a dirty porch. Our prayer went something like this, "Heavenly Father, we know miracles are wrought by faith. We have faith that Ken can get to church today. We ask that thou would use our faith to perform this miracle. We know you can perform miracles." We said amen and tried knocking the door and ringing the bell one more time when all of a sudden, our phone is getting a call from KEN. what?!?! So we freaked out and told him to get dressed. He got dressed and we were able to take him to Powell. It was beautiful. I know it was because our faith and diligence. Heavenly Father tested our faith and diligence to see how much we would give Him, because we gave it our all, He provided.
MIRACLES REALLY DO HAPPEN. I learned so much from this experience and I feel so humbled to be able to witness this. We are so excited to see him get baptized this Saturday. He told a member this week, "it's never to late to get baptized." Hah what a great 82 yr old. Pray for Ken that everything will go well this week!
A also came to church!! We met him Wednesday. He is super cool and we are excited to extend baptism to him this week. He is absolutely hilarious. He makes me laugh 24/7.
M came to church as well!!! His wife is inactive and she came with him! It was incredible. He accepted baptism this past week and so did the mother of his grandson, Last night we went over to their house and as we studied from the Book of Mormon, the spirit was powerful! Sister B. (M”’s wife) stopped reading...looked at us and said, "I really like you sisters. You are helping me get back to church. Get back into things. I felt really good at church today and I decided I want to come back." She expressed the hardship she felt with past missionaries and how they were not very nice to their family...causing them to be done with the church. M said Sister B. was going to find a new church until we came into their lives. At the end of the lesson M prayed and thanked Heavenly Father for sending us and bringing them back to the lords house of worship. It was such a sacred experience. We are so excited to teach this family!
I believe each of us have a divine potential that God wants to help grow within us. We each have a "ME" that God wants us to become. We are made of great worth and potential. We are children of a loving Heavenly Father. How lucky are we? I know that God exists. He is REAL.
Jesus Christ is His son. He lives. Miracles are wrought through the faith of mortals. We are unique. We are divine. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Until next Monday, thanks for all the love and support!
XOXO,
Sister Detamore
K E N., we all wore his glasses lol.
Temple with some of the sisters in the zone
Abraham at church yesterday
Facetiming sisters in the zone
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