Sister Gray's Mission: Elder Uceda

Hi hi cute friends!

It's crazy how fast this week has passed by. I still feel like it's Monday of last week. My head has kind of been spinning this week and I think it is starting to get to me. Overall this has been a good week. It has been a week of learning and a week of growth.

Monday we spent doing our normal P day activities. It was fun though because all of the youth had school off so we went and hung out with some of them. They started to trust us and they are starting to realize that we are still immature teenagers just like them. It makes for a good time and good friendships. We spent Monday night at the Smith home doing a family book of Mormon read. I absolutely love coming over to their house to learn with them. They struggle as a family to read the scriptures but they are trying and I am confident that the Lord recognizes that.

We had really good conversations and we are excited to meet with them tonight to see their progress.

Tuesday a miracle happened. A true miracle. Last week, sister Booth broke her permanent retainer. Not only broke it....but ripped it out of her mouth. This has brought our companionship some discouragement. She has shared with me some of the trials her family is going through right now. With different medical bills she didn't know if she would be able to replace her retainer due to the fact that it is not covered by missionary medical. Many prayers were said to know what to do and who to talk to. We learned from a member in the trophy club ward that Brother Jolley was an orthodontist. We have only met him once. We sent him a text explaining the situation and he insisted we came over at that very second. He then replaced not only her bottom retainer (the one that was broken) but provided her with a brand new one and fixed an old filling. All at no cost. We simply walked in, and walked out. Nothing else was said. Many prayers were answered through that. Some of which Brother Jolley will never know. It is a testimony to me that God is aware of us. That he uses other people to help us and provide for us. He truly wants what's best for us. I am grateful that I have had opportunities to help grow and strengthen that testimony. We spent the rest of Tuesday following up on people in the area book and trying to meet as many people as we can.

We had been asked to deliver a Spanish book of Mormon to a sister in our ward. It just happened to be the sister that I talked with last Saturday about her trials. What was supposed to be a 15 minute drop off, turned out to be a 2 hour long conversation. Something that this particular sister really needed. We bore frequent testimony that God knew her and that he knew what she was going through. We all sat and talked about the miracles that we see from God and how prayer can answer any question we have. It was a great meeting that was inspired by the spirit.

I will skip to Thursday. Thursday we had the opportunity to be trained by Elder Uceda. It was absolutely fantastic. He talked about prayer and the importance of personal prayer. I definitely learned a lot. I am grateful for that experience.

Friday I was absolutely and completely sick. I had the worst migraine I have ever had. It was terrible. I literally couldn't move. It was great. So basically I was in bed all of Friday morning until we went out to contact. It was kind of boring.

Overall this week has been amazing. I hope y'all have a great week and I will talk to you soon.

Love,

Sister Gray