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Happy Mother's Day

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We have a good friend named Farah from Iran. She asked about the mission program so we breifely explained it. In her thick Arabic accent she replied "Your mom's are diamonds".  Happy mother's day to all the wonderful women in my life! You're all diamonds!  Last night I typed out our numbers from the week to send to the district leader around 5:00. I was going to just send them because we always get distracted and forget to send them in time. But before I could hit send the spirit told me "wait, you'll find a new friend tonight." AWESOME! "Where should we go??" "Go visit Tree." (A woman we met last weekend.) So we did! And we met her sister named Bookie (Nigeria) and she told us all about how she has been praying for God to show her his true church! WHAT'S UP!? Missions are so cool. All we do is show up and cool stuff happens.  This week we were led by the spirit to meet a guy named Daniel. He's about 60 and has ...

CONGRATULATIONS TO SENEKAH AND TYSON!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SENEKAH AND TYSON!!! I LOVE YOU BOTH!!!!! REID'S AND SMITH'S FOR ETERNITY!! Last week we met a young man named B. He is from Thailand and has only been in the states for little over a year. This week we met with him and our member friend, Sister Rumfelt. Through (mostly) Google translate (dispensation pros) he told us that even though he grew up Buddhist he figured out that "the Christian God is the correct God." We translated the sentence "God is your loving heavenly father" and right when he read it he grabbed his chest and told us his heart was pounding. It's beautiful to help others understand the nature of our God. I know he loves us as the perfect father. Later in the week he downloaded gospel library and we showed him how to switch the language to Thai. We asked him to read Mosiah 3 and while he was doing so he got the spirit chills! He looked up startled (because it's very warm outside) and we helped him understand it wa...