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When I was in San Jose last week I stayed with the Yerba Buena Sisters. It was so neat to go back and teach all of my peeps!!! :) Well, they had planned to take Santa Gillardo to the temple on Tuesday morning. (Somebody that Sister Alvey and I started teaching together) and her ride cancelled on her last minute. We spent all morning calling everybody we could think of, but nobody was willing to take us. Santa said it was okay to do it another day, but for some reason we felt this urgency to go that day. Finally, we decided to say a prayer, hoping that we could find somebody who was willing so that Santa could go to the temple. I picked up the phone and started searching through it, and stopped on Juselle, somebody who had moved out of the ward months ago when I was still there. It made no sense to call, but I did, and it turns out that she is living with her mom in the area. When I asked her how she had been she told me about all the problems that had been happening in her life. She said she'd stopped going to church, and she was so glad we called. She asked if we could meet with her later that night. I asked her if she wanted to come to the temple with us, and she was so excited. She said she would drop everything she was doing that day to go.

It was so neat to see. It was a reminder to me that we really can pray for anything...even a ride to the temple. God answers our prayers, and often in doing so he will answer the prayers of others as well. Juselle and Santa immediately became friends, and they are both excited to help each other out through this time in their lives. We never would have thought to call her. The Sisters in Yerba Buena had never even met her, but it both Santa and Juselle needed to go to the Temple that day. Santa needed to have the support to make the decision to be baptized.

I had been frustrated with the fact that I was having to leave my area for 3 days, and cancel all of our appointments while I waited for the new missionaries to come in. But it was cool to find out that there was a purpose in my being there. I was needed there, even for a day.

Missionary Work is Awesome :)

Loves to everyone!!
-Mariesa