Holy tomato

Howdy folks,
        Well this has been a week of service in the service! haha... I
have canned more in the past week then I have my entire life! Its
harvest season so everyone and their dog is canning it seems. We
canned tomatoes and peaches and more tomatoes! Holy Tomato there are a
lot of tomatoes! Along with canning we have been cleaning homes and
painting buildings. Needless to say, my arms are ridiculously sore!
haha!
        We also had transfers this week which meant pretty much
nothing to us because we didn't get transferred. But it has been nice
to stay with a companion for longer than just 6 weeks. It is great
working with Sister Dilworth because she is such a great teacher and
she is super smart (not that my other comps weren't) we just seem to
have a wonderful flow in teaching that I didn't really experience with
the others. We have quite a few miracles happening right now and I am
so excited for them!
       I realized that I haven't shared much about the people that we
are teaching so here are just a few of the miracles we get to witness.
         Miracle #1: We have been teaching a recent convert every week
before and after her baptism, which was a few months ago, and she
would not ever pray. The sisters had asked her in the past and she
refused. We eventually gave up on trying to force her and so we would
just be the ones to pray every time. We had our final lesson with her
this week and the only thing left that she didn't know was how to pray
out loud. She didn't want ANYONE to hear her pray. Not even her
husband, dog, us, anyone. We talked about the importance of prayer and
how we do it and why we do it that way and everything we could about
the topic of prayer with scriptures, testimonies and stories to back
up everything we said. Along with all of that, there was A LOT of
silence. I do not like silence!!!!! It was so hard for me. We finally
said that we would say a short prayer asking Heavenly Father to bless
her with strength and support to pray out loud with us. And then after
we were done with that prayer we would keep our heads bowed and our
arms folded and she would say a prayer. So that is exactly what we
did. Sister Dilworth said a short prayer and we stayed in that
position and waited, prayed in my head, and waited and prayed some
more.....about a minute and a half later of complete silence, Sister
S, started her first ever spoken prayer. I can not even describe to
you the feeling that I felt that instant when she addressed her Father
in Heaven. I had tears running off my nose by the time her simple but
fervent and heartfelt prayer was finished. I have never felt the
Spirit testify so strongly before that our God is truly mindful of
each and every one of us and that he really does hear and answer every
single one of our prayers. I hope and pray that I will never forget
that feeling.

 Miracle #2: We have been going over to another recent converts house and helping her a lot to clean up her home. She has a very hard time letting ANYONE in her home. She is a hoarder and she has kept the inside of her house hidden for decades. One of my first times over there about 7 weeks ago, she locked herself out of her house and Sis Dilworth had to climb in the back door to unlock the front door. That was the first time that any one had been in this Sister's home in years. Since then we have been able to go in to her home and help clean and organize and sort and throw away and take stuff out for a garage sale and this is a miracle. She is one of the sweetest lady's I have ever met. She is so embarrassed by her home and the way that she lives but there is nothing she can do about it. It is a mental health condition that she has had to deal with her entire life. It is so hard for me to see someone live the way she does. I am blessed to know that she trusts us enough to let us help her like this. She allowed some of the sisters before into one of the rooms that wasn't as bad to help her and they threw away things that she wanted to keep. She is so paranoid now that we will do the same thing that she looks at everything we put into a trash bag. And then before we leave and take the trash bag with us, she has to look through it again. It is so frustrating sometimes because I just want to tell her that everything in her house should just be thrown away because it is filthy and disease ridden, but at the same time it makes me so sad that I want to cry for her! Anyway.so being able to help her is a miracle.

Miracle #3: We have found quite a few new investigators and they are awesome!!!! I love seeing the changes that people are willing to make to bring themselves in closer harmony with the Lords teachings.

I am almost out of time now, and I need to go and write Pres Greer! I love you all so much and I am grateful for your endless prayers and support. They mean more to me than you will ever know! Have a wonderful week and I hope to hear from you again soon! Much love and many hugs! :)

-- SISTER MORGAN BROX