"Are you J-Dubs?"

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Hey everyone!

I am still just LOVING things here in Rancho Bernardo. Our ward is HUGE. Seriously. It's the biggest ward in all of SoCal...so I definitely have a lot of names I'm trying to cram into my brain. After serving in 4 other wards, I really feel like my brain is overflowing with thousands of names! But it's not too much for this ADD Sister to handle :)

This past week was super good though! On Tuesday night we had a pretty cool miracle. We went to go hit up a certain town home complex to try and see a few less actives before we started making our way home. We had a lot of success actually finding people at home! Around 8 we got back into the car to head over to a different area that is closer to our house. [oh yeah, I think I forgot to mention that we are living at a Member's house! It felt SO weird at first, but after hearing all of the kids yelling at each other as they were getting ready for Church in the morning, it definitely made me feel right back at home :)] As we started exiting the complex we drove past a town home of a Less active that we had tried a few days before but weren't able to get a hold of. I looked at Sis. Saedan & asked her if she wanted to stop and see them. I could just see the wheels turning behind her eyes and at first she was like, "No, it's okay. We can try them another day.

But then not even 15 seconds later the Spirit prompted BOTH of us that we needed to go back & knock on that door again. So we flipped around and went & knocked on their door again. As we sat there for a second I started to get distracted by a moth that had gotten stuck in a big spiders web & watched as the spider made it's way towards the helpless moth....then all of a sudden I heard someone say "Hi!" but when I looked at the door, it was still closed. Then I realized that it came from behind us & it was actually one of their neighbors that said hi to us as she was putting her trash cans by the curb. As Missionaries here in SD, it is soooo rare to have someone say hi to you first, especially when we hadn't even stared her down, smiling! So we turned back to the door & knocked a second time as I continued to watch the dramatic scene go down between the moth and spider. Sometimes I just wish people could record Missionaries @ their doorsteps because all of a sudden the moth broke free from the web right before the massive spider was about to make the kill & it decided to fly RIGHT towards my face! Naturally, I freaked out & could hear the lady by the curb making an inaudible comment behind me. Once we realized that the family wasn't going to answer the door, we turned & the lady across the street asked, "Are you J-Dubs?"

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We walked up and told her that we were actually Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we just had the BEST conversation with her! She had actually met w/ some Sister Missionaries in Northern California a few years ago, but it was only a handful of times and it was during a super crazy time of her life. She seemed super interested in learning more again, but when we asked her she said that she had just moved in w/ her Boyfriend a week ago & he is really not religious. So she doesn't want to mess things up w/ him right now but she asked US for an address for our Church building AND for our numbers so she could call us sometime soon. It was just super cool to see how the Lord had truly directed us to be in the right place at the right time & that SHE is the one that actually found us. Ever since we met her we have been keeping her in our prayers and on Sunday we actually found out that her & her BF are roommates to one of our Active Members! Soo we can definitely see how the Lord is preparing them to receive the Gospel & i just know that there are SO many people just like her, waiting for us to come into their lives.

I just love being a Missionary. It seriously brings me so much joy & I am SO grateful that I have such a loving Heavenly Father who is truly watching ovehttp://www.mormon.org/me/G0HF/GeoffWalker

r me continually. We had so many tender mercies this week! A few of those tender mercies have actually been the opportunity that I have had to hear my recent converts bear their testimonies with such a powerful spirit! On Sunday we had a Mission President's Fireside in Chula Vista and we were able to go to it since my companion plays the piano so lovely :) And I am SO grateful she does because I was able to hear my RC-Erin, get up in front of over a hundred people, and bear her testimony about her conversion to the Gospel. It was seriously a tear jerker. Also, I found Geoff Walker's Mormon.org profile and it just makes me SOOOO happy as I read it! Here's the link so all of you can read his AMAZING testimony as well :)

I am so grateful for everything the Lord has done for me & I can't even imagine what my life would have been like if I never served a mission & met all of these amazing people. Heavenly Father is SO mindful of us! I hope each of you can recognize His hand in your lives this week & will feel of His love and MY love for you as well :)

xoxo Sister Morgan