A Week of Gratitude

Hello everyone!

Thanksgiving week was an adventure. We last minute had Thanksgiving dinner canceled on us, so the Evans gladly invited us over for their Thanksgiving. It was p-day that day so we spent some of the time doing scripture study with the Evans family and playing ping-pong. That was a joy, and for sure a memory I will always remember.

We are also gearing up for Brother Rivas to head to the temple to do baptisms, and for him to get the Priesthood, which were all excited about. Brother Rivas is excited to get back to the sites and keeps saying, "I can't wait to get the card that will get me inside the temple." It's the little things :)

We have seen a good deal of direct blessings this past week. As winter approaches I will admit, it's been a little rougher to get up and out there each day when we don't have a car. But the Lord is very aware of our efforts and introduced us to a family to teach! The Santiagos! Seriously, we call them our miracle family. They let us right in from their doorstep in the first contact, but they couldn't meet the first week because their daughter was sick. But we dropped off some little cakes on their doorstep one evening, said a prayer as we were leaving that no animals would get to it, and lo and behold we got a text just fifteen minutes later that they'd gotten them and had been reading the Book of Mormon.

We also are visiting a man named Brother Breedlove, who was a Bible referral and loves Jesus. He has pictures of him all on the walls of his home. He's brother passed away earlier in the year, so he just wants to do all he can to make his brother, and the Lord proud. 

Also, I discovered a miracle that happened. Does anybody remember back in the summer when I wrote about pirate day and Sister Dickey and I went outside to take a picture of us with the parrot and invited a man named Michael to come in and take a tour? His baptism was two weeks ago. I hadn’t heard any news of his progress after sending his information to the missionaries, but there it is! I found out serving with Sister Murdock as she was taking about the baptism they were soon having and asked how they find Michael. She gave me a puzzled look and said, “you and Sister Dickey?” I then exclaimed, “ THAT Michael??” There was much screaming involved.

It's an honor and a privilege to be teaching and have taught these people.

I love you all, and you are constantly in my prayers.

Sincerely,
Hermana Abreu

1. The sisters at the sites got together and do an exercise where we pretended to be Joseph and Oliver Cowdery as they were translating. The Bradford’s graced us with quills as our gift!
2. Panorama of Thanksgiving with the Evans
3. Michael’s baptism with the sisters that taught him :)
4. The Santiago’s daughter taking pictures on our iPads