This Sunday was great! We had 54 people at sacrament and this week was full of miracles. Arlanya and her boyfriend, Brad, and Edna all came to church and Edna brought her 5 kids. This week we were able to set a baptismal date with Arlanya on June 25th, but she just told us that she is going to Page tomorrow to look for a job and if she finds one that she'll be living in Kaibeto from then on. If she doesn't find a job, then she'll come back to Steamboat. It's too bad! We've taught her the first three lessons and she got an answer that the Book of Mormon is true already and she is reading the Book of Mormon a lot and it's awesome!
Secondly, we got to read Alma 32 that talks about how faith is like a seed with one of our new investigators Candice while sitting in her garden that her and her neighbor Leland were working on that very morning! We got there while they were busy planting, so we all sat down in the garden and read it. It was just legit to be able to really understand the metaphor by sitting in the garden watching all of these seeds that were just planted and to know that some of them will be sprouting up just in this next week!
Third, Edna agreed to come to church this Sunday but she needed a ride because she lives 7 miles away from the church and about 3 or 4 miles off the highway so it was kind of hard to think of someone who could get her and also have enough room for her and all five of her kids, so we called Sister Joseph since she has a van. She originally said she couldn't because she had to bring her son Jerek and three of her grandkids who were staying with her, but then we continued to search and prayed that she would be able to make it and Sister Joseph called us on Sunday morning asking us where she lives because she was on her way to get her! It was so cool.
Lastly, we met a new investigator named Wynona who we knocked on her door a week ago today and she said she was busy but told us right away that she was interested and wanted us to come back (which doesn't happen too often) and we got to teach her on Saturday and at the end of the lesson I asked her why she wanted us to come back and she said she was praying to God for help and answers and we knocked on her door just a short time later that very same day! It was so cool! We had just knocked her door a couple of weeks before but we were "lead by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which [we] should do." (1 Nephi 4:6) I've never been great at recognizing the voice of the Spirit speaking to me, but I definitely know that it does work through me because without knowing it, I am lead and placed in the right place at the right time. It's so amazing to be able to look back like in Ether 12:6 and to see the witness after our faith has been tried.
Oh my goodness, Elder Knighton was the Assistant to the President for 6 or 7 months, but he was just released to serve as a district leader in Indian Wells (not far from me, but in a different zone) for his last transfer. I should see him next week on Friday the 13th at a meeting in Chinle where a general authority is going to speak to us so I'll ask him about Tate! I'm trying to remember when I would have met him, I have a vague memory of going to someone's house with Tate who lived not too far from where my violin teacher used to live there in Kaysville. That's crazy!
I love you all and thank you all for your support! I wasn't able to get the packages yesterday because the post office was closed because it was a holiday of some sort (probably just a Navajo holiday or something). Have a great week and happy birthday to you and to Grandma!!!
Love,
Elder Schaelling
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