"Arizona Rub"

Everyone!!

 

It's been an incredible week. I don't even know where to begin! Maybe in chronological order?

So, first let me just talk about my senior couple companions, the Pettingill's and Skidmore's. Elder P tells me i'm just like his daughter, and I truly feel a fathers love from him. How in the world do I get so blessed to have so many fathers! But one thing that I am greatly learning from them and also president is what a pure love is like! What a celestial marriage will be like, and all that jazz. It's such a beautiful thing.

 

Another awesome miracle was Sunday. Holy smokes. First, Elder Gifford Nielsen and his beautiful wife Wendy came. We were able to just sit and talk with him for a moment, and he just sat and gave me the "Arizona rub" (its what the elders here have nicknamed president and the stokers rubs they give ha ha. Anyway, he is just an incredible man. I think the biggest thing that hit me was that I have been called to be a master teacher, that it is my job to teach people so that they can understand their agency and use it for good, and make it back home!

 

Another miracle was Sunday night! I felt super impressed to pack a book of Mormon and we went to go teach our Nepalize family. A 17 year old guy was there, and I asked him to tell me his story! he replied I gotta go, and I stopped him and said I was impressed to carry this, I think its for you. He took off, we started singing to the family (and sheesh the spirit was so strong, the parents don't speak English, and the mom Mani was crying!) we finish the song and there's a knock, with Liguandro at the door. he sat right down and said i'm so sorry for leaving, I felt like I needed to come back and listen. We asked some super inspired questions, and then the spirit took over. He said he felt god has abandoned him, and I testified and shared an experience I had my freshman year when for a moment I felt that too. His eyes never left mine. I testified that god doesn't leave or abandon us, we abandon him. After we asked how he felt when we sang and I testified. He told me my voice was so soothing and he never wanted me to stop, that he felt lie nothing else mattered but what I was saying. It was so awesome.

 

Well I am happy, because I know the Savior is before my face making and preparing my way in this journey of life.

 

I love you all! Sister Cloward