Lost and FOUND

Sabrina @ leadership conference

Y'all have no idea how accurate that subject line is, because lemme tell you! This entire week has been a real life lost and found. So stay tuned...

The Fabulous 4: Sister Collins, Sabrina, Sister Bryson, Sister Orton

Miracles: 

So last week I mentioned a little bit about a less active member who lives in our apartment complex and has a family! Well this week we finally had the opportunity to teach them and it was incredible! She opened up to us about her fears and her hesitations with the gospel and we were able to teach and testify so powerfully. We talked a lot about faith and her husband listened in on the entire lesson. They are both eager to receive answers directly from Heavenly Father, and we are eager to teach them. This week we are going to invite them to church, so PLEASE keep them in your prayers! I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has led us to one of his lost sheep, and know she has been FOUND! 

Also this week our investigator Wayne came to church and he stayed all three hours! He is this cute 60 year old man and I just love him. The entire ward was thrilled to have him there and it was just so happy! He said he felt great peace being at church. It was an incredible miracle because he actually got a phone call halfway through the meeting telling him his brother tried to commit suicide the night before. He was so grateful to be in a place where he could feel God's love, not only for him, but for his brother. Heavenly Father is so aware of each of his children. 

Also like three weeks ago I lost a sock doing laundry and this morning I FOUND it in the hallway of our apartment complex. Miracle! 

Funnies: 

Sister Bryson and Sabrina

A few weeks ago Sister Bryson threw my glove out the car window just because she is Sister Bryson and that is how she rolls...haha! Well anyway, this was like 3 weeks ago and I have been so sad and glove-less since! But this week we prayed and felt inspired to try a potential investigator's home and as we pulled up there was my glove sitting on the sidewalk!How crazy is that?! What was once lost has now been FOUND. Plus we knocked on the door of the potential's home and FOUND a family to teach! 

Sister's and Sushi

Sabrina and Sister Orton

Spiritual thought: 

This week I have been thinking a lot about the sacrament, and what it does for us each and every week. Besides it being a renewal of our baptismal covenants,the sacrament is also a time for us to remember our Savior and all that his Atonement makes possible for us. 

 On the day that our Savior was resurrected, two disciples traveled a long road to a village known as Emmaus. As they walked, the Resurrected Lord drew near unto them and accompanied them on their journey, unrecognized by his disciples. They invited him to meat with them and while there "he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them...And their eyes were opened and they knew him..." (Luke 24:13-16,28-31)

 

I think we are so often like these two disciples.We go through our own journey to Emmaus and the Savior walks by our side all the while, unrecognized. One of the greatest blessings of the sacrament is that it opens our eyes to the Savior. It helps us remember Him and look back on our week, seeing his hand in all we did. 

"As we draw closer to God, [by partaking the sacrament] the enabling power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ will come into our lives. And, as with the disciples on the way to Emmaus, we will find that the Savior has been nearby all along." 

- Elder Dale G. Rendlund 

I love you all and I hope you have the best week! Thank you for the support and the love and the laughs. Keep on keeping on! 

xoxo, 

Sister Bengtzen