Miracle Sunday!

Querido Familia y Amigos,
I just wish all of you could witness the amazing testimony meeting we had yesterday in our little branch! My heart was so full of love and the Spirit, I could barely handle it!

At 10am before church, my companions and I had a lesson with an investigator named Abraham (Ah-brahm), one of the happiest, most humble, tiny Guatemalan men you'll ever meet! We met him while we were doing service at a local thrift store and I just started talking to him and got his information and he said we could come over sometime!

So far, we've had a really hard time getting investigators to sacrament meeting. But yesterday, including Abraham, we had 5!! (6 if you include another lady who has been coming for a while but can't be baptized yet).

This is not even all that happened, but here are some classic moments from the Princeton 3rd Branch Sacrament Meeting:

First up to bear her testimony as usual is Hermana Robles, who LOVES everyone and everything and shares her love about 200 times in her testimony. We love her!
Hermana Daniels, Hermana Nava, and I bore our testimonies in Spanish- it is incredible to hear how far we've come as trainees with the language!!
A sweet, shy member got up to bear her testimony and my heart was so full.
THEN... Our cute Dominican investigator named Madelyn who surprised us by showing up at church, walked up with her baby and bore her testimony and said she will be baptized sometime!
Then Abraham went up and bore a strong, heartfult testimony for everyone at his 3rd time at church!
Then another young investigator named Andres who we haven't even had a lesson with yet- just invited to church- went and expressed his gratitude for us inviting him to church and his own testimony!
And our friend Luis who was inactive for about a year and is going to start his mission papers soon bore his testimony for us all!

We also had an older Peruvian man named Rigoberto in church for his first time and he loved it and wants to bring his granddaughter next week. The morning of, our investigator named Ivon (the one who answered the door in his paint-covered jeans) finally decided to come to church! The members helped us so much by giving them rides and fellowshipping them!


Another miracle: My adorable friend, Destiny, who I met at BYU-Hawaii last semester in my English class, is HERE! After I got my call, she got really excited and told me that she'd be coming to New Jersey. I hadn't talked to her since. Then one day in our chapel at church I see her- and she had married her boyfriend about 2 weeks earlier! Destiny served in Canada, Spanish-speaking and her husband served in Samoa. They decided to stay in our Spanish branch for the time they are here. Now these two returned missionaries are strengthening the branch so much and helping us give Abraham and other investigators rides to and from church and helping us in lessons!

So many miracles! We are so blessed! I love you all!

Love,
Hermana Martin