heartbreak warfare (July 7)

well hello!

I hope all is well over there in America :) here in Australia there are heaps of things happening!

SOOOOO... on Wednesday Angie had her baptismal re-interview and she was cleared for baptism it was soooo exciting and she was ready to make this big change in her life.  On Friday me and Sister Simon had exchanges with Sister Arnold and Sister Liu which was AWESOME! I went to Sister Arnold's area and Sister Liu came to Midland.  While I was gone Sister Simon went to go and visit Angie only to find that she wasn't home because she was trying to deal with her fiance cheating on her :( (sad I know) but she was still excited to get baptized on Saturday and that was a relief!  Sister Simon and I spent the majority of Saturday getting things ready for the baptism and making sure nothing was going to stop Angie from getting in the water.  It was the BEST feeling when she got baptized and then afterwards she bore her testimony about Heavenly Father always helping and guiding her and how she is so excited to make these changes in her life.  I was so grateful for Heavenly Father guiding us to her and helping her through ALLLL of her challenges.  We went home and finally went to sleep (best night's sleep of my mission I think) but when we woke up we saw that we had 2 missed calls from Angie and 4 messages... our hearts sank.  We tried calling her and texting her and so finally on our way to church we stopped off at her house only to find that she had been drugged by her mom's boy friend and assaulted.  Yesterday was one of the hardest day's of my life. We called the bishop and he sent some members to come and get Angie and take her to their house. The police were called and they came and took care of her.  She didn't get confirmed, and right now we don't even know where she is. Half a baptism is so painful, it makes break-ups look like paper cuts on the grand scale of pain.  I don't know if we will ever get Angie confirmed. Her life is SO extreme and she is so unpredictable.  Honestly I become a hott mess whenever we have to take care of these situations.  That being said, I truly do love her and I hope with all of my heart that one day she will get the gift of the holy ghost and be able to make the changes in her life that will bring her to our heavenly father. 

But here is a happy story after that really sad one... So on Friday when me and Sister Arnold were doing exchanges we had a goal of getting their area 2 new investigators that day. We decided after our first lesson of the day that we would walk to subway for lunch.  As we were walking along a man on a bike passed us and we cheerfully said "hello!" and he kept biking past but yelled back "who are you and what are you doing" I responded with the first thing that came to my mind "what are you?" (ya i know that was a really good response right?) any way he came back and he told us that he NEEDS god in his life and he would love to turn around his life. He gave us his phone number, address, and set up an appointment. IT WAS AMAZING! We knew that we had been lead to walk to subway for lunch instead of going back to the flat to eat.  Later that day we were walking around after a follow up with a former and we saw this girl and said hi, immediately I was like we should talk to her.  So me and Sister Arnold road our bikes slowly past her and we had no idea what to say to her so we asked her if she knew where heardsman parade was... she said that she wasn't from around there so she didn't know the streets very well.  We asked her where she was from and she told us utah... OK SERIOUSLY UTAH?!?! what are the chances?! She goes to Roland Hall (the caltholic school in SLC) and she's 13.  We asked her if she would like to meet with the missionaries when she gets back to America and she said that none of her mormon friends had ever asked her but she would love to! She gave us her information and we are going to reffer her to the missionaries in SLC.  how cool right?!

Any way I know that the Lord is in this work and I know that if we follow every good thought that comes into our mind that we will be led by the spirit.  I LOVE this gospel and I know that Jesus Christ is the answer to every single one of life's problems... I dare you to try and find one that he isn't... you won't be able to so don't bother trying ;)

I love and miss all of you. Keep praying and reading your scriptures and doing what is right. go to the temple often and spend time together as a family as much as possible.

xoxox

Sister Wyatt