Miracles

Wow! What a week. We had lots of miracles happen, and the biggest one was getting such a phenomenal new companion. Elder Tuckfield showed up on Saturday and he is incredible! Elder Dias and I are getting the chance to train him along with our other responsibilities, and it's been fun. He is a super dedicated missionary. He is a bright light to everyone and when he testifies you can see the image of the Savior. I'm super grateful for his example. He definitely helps me want to become more like Jesus Christ.


We had Zone Conference this week!! I loved Sister Crane's training on habits. I'm realizing the need to create good habits that help me feel the Spirit. When we create good habits it's harder to get distracted. But on the other hand, when we have poor habits it's a lot harder to break them. It's all about our focus. So, lately I've been thinking about how current habits help me focus on my missionary purpose. As I do so, I feel like I'm a lot more effective as a missionary. It's almost as if the Lord is more willing to use me as an instrument more often when I have the right focus.


We had a huge miracle that happened this week, which is pretty sacred to me. Last week I was very worried about spending so much time away from our area. I definitely wasn't expecting the extra time we took to pick up Elder Tuckfield. I was worried about finding new people to teach. Last week we had fast Sunday, and Elder Dias and I decided to fast to find a family of four people to teach. As I fasted and prayed for that specific blessing I felt so strongly that the Lord would bless us. However, as the week went on, and I realized that we would only have a few precious hours to get the work done that we needed, I couldn't really see how we would find these people.


When we got to our apartment, we dropped our bags off and went to work. Before we left our apartment, we prayed to find this family. Then we went to work. We already had a few appointments lined up but they wound up falling through. As we were walking to another appointment, we all felt like we needed to knock on a specific door. So we knocked, and they answered. The lady that answered immediately looked at me and we both said at basically the same time, "Eu te conheco de algum lugar." But we had never met before. It was one of the most pure experiences of divine revelation I've ever had. She quickly invited us inside and introduced us to her family. We taught them the restoration and they're now reading the Book of Mórmon. We taught her, her husband, and their two kids. It was a huge miracle and I'm immensely grateful for the Spirit that guided us to them


I love you all!! I hope you all have a great week this week!!


Elder Larkin