Sister Cheyenne Skinner: 9/2/24

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🌻"please bless my big toe"🌻

GUESS WHAT!! Alright here's the crazy birthday miracle of the week!! 


This week all I wanted for my birthday was a friend!! Haha I was praying all week and all day that we would be able to find someone and on that day we decided to go and knock on a referrals door, this included a 20 minute bike ride into the mountains to knock on a door but it felt like it was worth it! Sadly our referral wasn't there but his mom was and she welcomed us in! She loved to talk to us about america but didn't seem very willing to listen... but we did invite her to church and then we left. At ECG that night we also invited a cute mom and her daughter to come to church but by the end of the day we had no new friends... but that's okay because it was still an awesome day!! Anyway then Sunday came and when church happened all 3 of the people we invited on August 28th came!!!! And then we set up times to meet with all of them!!


It was super cool because we made 3 new friends on Sunday but all of them were from our efforts on Wednesday!! It just shows that sometimes you may pray and pray but never see the effect but I promise the Lord really does hear our prayers and they are answered even if it's not when or how we expect! The other thing is that the miracle came from our efforts on Wednesday! We had to use our faith to go all the way into the mountains to knock on that one door and we had to use our faith to ask that Mom to come to church even when it seemed like she would say no. 


So just because you don't see the effect doesn't mean you should stop acting!! 


Other things this week!!

- got to play basketball while finding and winner got to share a scripture... we won🏀

(Little does my dad know he has helped me in missionary work more than he knows😋)

- got to go back to Yongkang Tainan for MLC!!

- the elders got me cake!! 🎂 

- got to go on an exchange with Sister Bartholomew and take her to her very first night market... SO FUN!!!

- Got to do a virtual temple tour with our friend and tell her she could be with her 已經過世了 husband forever!!  

- had a super fun spiritual share about repentance at board game night and had a lady say she understood now! She was so excited about repentance it was so cool! 

- Mikeys tire popped!! 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️

- had pizza, noodles, scary looking orange mush balls, and herbal tea to break our fast at a members🩷


I LOVE YOU ALL!!! THANKS FOR THE BIRTHDAY MESSAGES IT SERIOUSLY MEANT THE WORLD!!!

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