the very road on which we found that cute family! Or, rather, they found us
this is us with Elder Navaneethan and his father at his setting apart
from Sister Cheng who visited us from Taiwan last week
This week was a solid one.
Pretty busy, that's for sure. We had a joint zone conference with the
Chennai zone, that was fun. President Funk, who was in town for stake
conference, joined us and gave us some solid training about finding
effectively. He also introduced us to the concept of helping members
learn about the Church through social media, which is (somehow) a new
idea to our mission--in a country that is rapidly advancing in terms of
technology.
Stake conference was also really
good, it was centered on strengthening faith in Christ and the blessings
and importance of the temple. It made me miss the temple a lot, that's
for sure.
One cool miracle that happened this week. On Wednesday
afternoon, President Mortensen asked us to take Elder Navaneethan, a
soon-to-be missionary, on exchange with us for a couple hours before his
setting apart later that evening. We were excited to take him with us,
we had an appointment with a cute new family that we'd started teaching
earlier in the week. While traveling to the appointment, we got a call
from the family saying that they were going out for the evening and
wouldn't be able to meet with us. We were pretty sad, but Elder
Navaneethan suggested that we'd better do something productive in that
area as we had traveled a long time to get there. So we went
door-knocking for some time, with little success. When the time came
for us to travel back to the mission office for Elder Navaneethan's
setting apart, we felt impressed to keep at it just a few more minutes.
We turned to Elder Navaneethan and asked him what direction he felt we
should walk in. He started walking down the road and we followed. No
more than a minute later, we heard a voice call "Elders!" from across
the street. We looked up and who did we find? The family we had
planned to meet with! It was awesome. We talked with them about prayer
and Christmas for a few minutes, it was awesome. The Lord truly is
directing this work. He not only works in mysterious ways but in
marvelous ways and He's watching over every one of us.
Happy
Thanksgiving, everyone, I hope no one has trouble finding a turkey
because we most certainly will haha. Have a great week!
Keep the faith,
Elder Tuscano
p.s. - more from Sunil Kumar regarding the visit of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith: "Jesus said, 'Don't change your hairstyle. Don't change
your clothes. Don't change the hat on your head. Change your heart."
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