The Errand of Angels: July 1st

We checked a referral last week that we are really excited about. It's a young mother with an 8 yr old child and a husband, she works at home part time so she has time for us to come over and teach, and she's interested to be learning!! Our first lesson with her was amazing, and we're hoping the second she'll continue to be interested, but she's super sweet, and we're glad to have found someone that's interested that's Cambodian! It's truly amazing how God puts those people in our path because they move around so much, and one complex that doesn't have one Cambodian in it will be full of them three months later. And the majority of the time, if they're not less-actives, they're not interested, so we're really excited to be teaching her.

Last Tuesday after Sis. Loy I dropped off Sister Walker and Noun off to go check some referrals, Walker found out we were going into Tacoma West zone and said "You've been wanting to check where this one less-active is we visited with once months ago. I think she lives here." And found an intersection in the GPS. We checked our referrals in that area then went to go find this less-active I'd been thinking about for awhile and had wanted to check, but the address I'd had was wrong. So finally we go..... and I can't find her house.

We stopped to say a prayer that if God wanted us to visit her that night that we would be able to, and at the risk of wasting miles I drove around the area in search of her house, searching the GPS for addresses or streets she might be on. Knowing Sis. Walker didn't know where else to look, I started to drive away when the farther away I drove, the more dragged down I felt. Finally I pulled over to call Walker to see if she had any more advice and she suggested trying a different, parallel street. We did, and to my relief we found her!!

Her daughter answered the door and when we asked if Lay was there she said "Yes, she just walked through the back door from shopping." Lay was very tired, had a night shift, and wasn't sure when she'd have time to meet us, so I asked if we could say a prayer with her before we left. She said yes, and invited us in. We sat down, chatted for a bit, then Sister Loy offered the prayer. I couldn't understand most of what she was saying, but I felt the Spirit in the room, and after she finished Lay confessed they were about to move (outside the mission boundaries) in couple days. I asked if we could help them pack, but she said they were pretty much done and asked for our number, so I told her we could leave the mission upon appointment if she ever wanted us to visit or needed our service. There is no such things as a coincidence!

This week's been super busy as we now have President and Sister Blatter at the head of the mission now (whom we've now met a couple times now and really like), and Sister Noun left for California to visit her mom before returning to Cambodia yesterday, so we're now back to a trio. There's always so much more to say, and so much less time to say it, so, until next week!

IT'S MY HALFWAY MARK TODAY!!! Can you believe it?? I'm officially half-way through my mission! It's crazy how fast it goes!

Love you!

Sister Dunster