Miracles

That Book of Mormon treck thing sounded sweet! Dad told me some cool storys about setting up some of the stuff in the woods and having his prayers answered immediately.

   Miracles have been happening more now in my mission than I have ever seen my whole mission.   This area I have been assigned to has completely changed.  We have been focusing on how we can controll getting miracles in our lives.  Or like you put it Mom, "pull down a miracle".   It all comes from Faith. If we act in faith (James 2:17)...if we do all that we can by acting in faith, the grace of God will flow into our lives. and that is how we let God help us or let God show us how to do His work. We are really just tagging along with the Lord in the first place.     If we act in faith. (excersise "faithfulness") the grace of God will make up for what we can not do, resulting in what we call a "miracle".  Miracles are awsome!!

     I could go on about miracles but I don't have time.  The first miracle that comes to mind is actually one that happened last night. We took a member out with us to visit some potential investigators we had found the day before. We had a member with us and a lesson planned (acted in faith), but both of the appointments fell through! It was near the end of the day and it would have been easy to tell the member that he could go home and rest and that we would go tracting or something.  But!!  We had a backup plan!  (another act of faith).  So we took the member with us to another potential that lived next door to this member. We hadn't talked to this man in a while, but we knocked on his door and asked him if he had time for us to share our message with him. He agreed and we went over to the member's home and taught this unplanned lesson. We quickly learned that he is very prepared for the gospel. So we committed him to be baptized on Aug 24th. He is excited for his baptism.

        We did all that we could to reach our goals and as we acted in faith, the Lord stepped in and provided a way for us to achieve the goals. It happens every time.  I love working with the Lord this way! These miracles make me feel like the Lord is part of our companionship and that he is right here working next to us.  It's awesome!

            -Elder Shumway