The Reasons for Everything


Dear Family,
  The Lord has shown me miracles little by little this week! He is really starting to teach me, and I've felt myself changed as a person and a missionary. A couple experiences for lack of time:
  The Lord's timing is crazy. For dinner on Friday we just happened to run into Elder Don Clarke, an emeritus seventy (general authority of the church) and his wife. They invited us to eat with them! They have been mission presidents, done hundreds of mission tours, and he's spoken at general conference at the MTC. He just started answering our questions about missionary work and I left feeling so inspired and grateful that God put Him in our path. Sometimes I forget what power missionaries have and I felt like he gave a little of that back to me.
  Sunday we were somehow super busy and we were able to actually have a lesson with the people who dropped us recently and invite them to the temple open house! The member that came with us was a returned missionary and we had a really powerful moment when she testified of the love that missionaries have for those they teach. It's so true, I've never used my heart so much in my life. I love being inspired to go somewhere and being able to find out we were in the right place at the right time, and that's what happened with a member we visited real fast. We simply invited her to start praying for a friend she could share the gospel with, but at the end she started crying, thanking us for coming and saying she had been feeling sad that day. President Monson is right, the sweetest experience in life is learning you have helped be the answer to someone's prayer.
  Temple open house update: amazing and exhausting. Love sharing my testimony of temples!
  Shoutout: to my family in Utah! Have fun!
  Invitation: Watch general conference it'll be so good!! Hear a prophet's voice and sustain him :) I know that President Nelson is the prophet of God!
Love you all so much!

Hermana Adison Alley
P.S. Found out one of the reasons I'm still in my first area! [E] came back!! (See email titled just one soul)





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