Hey Family!
Happy New Year!
Things here are good. I wanted to share with ya'll a story from my mission. I think I told dad and maybe Connor but never had time to write it to everyone.
Well we did a special mission fast for our mission presidents son in law. His son in law had been working on a barn that they were building and ended up falling over ten feet from the top. He had broken his neck with the vertebraes 3, 4, 6, and 7. He was in critical condition. We ended up fasting as a whole mission and the next day we heard back in conference call that he went into surgery and they took bone from his hip and grafted it into his neck. By the end of the night he was up walking. The doctor said he had been 1 mm from snaping the nerve which would have killed him instantly.
I am so grateful for this fast that I was able to participate in and that as a whole we were able to see such a grand miracle. President Anderson said that they had been promised when they were set apart as missionaries that their family would be better off and more protected from them choosing to serve a mission. As a result we can most likely assume that his son was saved because of their decision to serve the Lord.
This week I also was interviewed by my mission president. In the interview he told me that there were two sisters in our mission that were going home that day for medical reasons. Later that night as the two sisters were in his office he called me to talk to them and give them advice. I was grateful to have been through a similar experience in order to give motivation/advice to them. I then was able to fast for these sisters as well. Please keep them in your prayers.
As I stated before, I know that prayers and fasting does work. That God does hear us and want to help us. Especially as we fast for our families in time of need whether to be strengthened, to be healed, or to bring back those that are lost, that it can work!! So hope you all can exercise your faith in God and ask for his help with whatever you stand in need!
In addition, I was following up with one of the sisters that went home. Small world, she said grandma willma is her mom's aunt. So maybe we are second cousins??
Further, in the interview I had, President Anderson was asking me about the area I currently serve in and if he had placed missionaries here too prematurely. I told him that I know that there can be missionaries anywhere there are people and that I know there is a real power behind talking to people about the temple going up in our area. There really is something special about the change you can see in individual's countenances when you tell them it is a place that their family can be sealed togther forever. He told me that I confirmed what he had been feeling as well and was the answer he was looking for. Apparently he had doubts about having missionaries in our area and had prior to been asking the temple site managers and my companion what they thought about missionaries being there, but when I talked with him he knew that what I said was true and that he now knew he needed missionaries there! And he thanked me for that. Cool experience.
Hope you guys are looking for ways to help and serve others. Continue to be strong, read your scriptures, pray etc. And from a general conference talk (can't remember the speaker) it said that most of us are just too afraid to pray to have a missionary opportunity because we are too afraid we might actually have to do or say something to someone. I know that if you guys pray an opportunity will present itself. Hopefully you guys can really begin to share the gospel with those around you! Hope all is well.
Love you much
Sister Beames
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