This week has been really slow and really hard.  We're trying our best and I know that Lord will bless us for our diligence even when it seems like nothing's happening.

Probably the worst thing that happened this week is I lost our cell phone.  It just fell out of my bag.  I thought it was in a secure place but I guess not.  After leaving our dinner appointment we ended up looking and re-looking for it until 8:45 and finally gave up and went back to our apartment feeling discouraged.  Remembering that there was an alarm that was sure to go off whether the sound was off or not for 6:30 we returned to the place where we thought we lost it and started looking for it again in the morning.  This women who had seen our car and the pictures of Jesus that we had on our car came up and asked us if we had lost our cellphone.  She only spake Spanish but sure enough she had our cellphone.  What a miracle!  We knew that God would allow us to find our cellphone and so the miracle truly came after exercising faith.

Because we had lost our cellphone the day before we didn't have a chance to charge it that night.  It died right before our dinner appointment.  We were late leaving our dinner appointment and had a member waiting for us at our apartments plus an appointment at the church and another appointment in like 10 minutes and we were freaking out.  So we went to the church to make sure our investigators weren't just waiting outside for us and we found that the Vietnamese Ward was playing basketball that day so we were able to use the Vietnamese Elders cellphone battery to contact the people that we needed to.  And we left to go to our next appointment and that's where we met John or I should say re-met John.  We had met him actually in his apartment complex but had missed the appointment so God gave us another opportunity to see him again.  It's funny how we cannot frustrate the work of God that even when we do something stupid like assume someone's not prepared and miss the appointment God will put that person in our path again.  It was sort of like he was saying "Wake up!  You need to visit this person!"

Transfers is this Wednesday and I just found out that Sister Workinger is leaving.  I'm worried about getting the area.  Texas roads are so hard to navigate.  There are no mountains to help me know which direction I'm going.  There is no numbers just random names.  The roads twist and turn and they look all the same and the same road looks different in different parts.  Plus I'm directionally challenged anyway so these roads don't help.  These roads are the more frustrating part of my mission.  Sister Workinger has been a good trainer and I'm going to miss her.  She knows how to work hard despite of challenges and that's been a good example for me.  She also has a great sense of humor and has made these last 12 weeks really fun.  I know the sisters in our Zone really look up to her and that she'll be able to help an area that's really struggling.

Love,

Sister Ashley Naylor