Mission Miracle from Sora Elizabeth Lovell

Is everyone ready for something AMAZING!!!!
MAIA IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!! That is Alina's Mom!!! She finally doing it. I will tell you what happened. It was VERY unexpected.

So this past planning session I was reorganizing our white board (where we list who we work with-investigators, recent converts, less actives, and so on)and I actually moved Maia down to the end of the list of investigators to show she was no longer a focus, she was not progressing and I basically accepted that she would be an eternal investigator always saying "I'll get baptized in December...I'll get baptized in January...I'll get baptized in February" but never actually making any commitments and never actually entering the font. THEN...on Sunday (after a week of both Maia and Alina being sick and actually thinking they were not coming) Alina and Maia come in to church. Sacrament meeting has ended and it is time to start the Investigators' Sunday School class. I sit down next to Alina who is next to Maia. The lesson was fabulous (by our fearless district leader and his amazing companion) and Maia answered questions (not super surprising she is an intelligent women and studied the bible in her life) and her and Alina sat next to each other in their skirts (I was at least grateful when Maia came she also wore a skirt because neither of them liked the idea at all when I suggested Alina, being a member, needs to come in a skirt) and again the thought came into my mind that Maia will just never get baptized (pathetic, I know). Then after the class, Alina got up to use the restroom and I have NO IDEA WHY but I suddenly found myself scooting over next to Maia and asking, "Deci, cand vei fi botezta?" or "So, when will you get baptized?" I could not believe the words coming from my mouth. Even more surprising was her answer, just as bold as my question "I need to look at the calendar because I am ready now."
WHAT????? When or how her heart was changed I am not exactly sure but WOW! I told Sora Howard and she could not stop smiling and then Janyela and Mariana came over to congratulate her. We were already planning a lunch together (Sora Howard, me, Janyela, Mariana, Alina, and Maia) for Saturday so Maia decided why not just do the baptism then and then get confirmed on Sunday. What did I say to that? "SURE!" Oh, and when Alina came out of the bathroom Sora Howard told Alina to ask her Mom, "what is the surprise?" Aw, when Maia said "I am getting baptized on Saturday Alina's face just lit up!!! She gave her Mom a big hug. It was so cute.
Sora Howard and I have tons to do before Saturday! MAIA IS GETTING BAPTIZED. We are probably scratching the lunch and just having treats after cause we have tons to do.

Another miracle though also came from listening to the promptings of the spirit. Our district leader gave us a challenge this week to place 10 Russian Book of Mormons. We do not have missionaries that speak Russian right now but SO MANY people speak Russian and there is a whole lot of other reasons why we were given this assignment that I will just tell you when I get home if you really want to know but anyways....Sora Howard and I prayerfully chose where we needed to go block knocking in hopes that on this particular day we would place 5 or those 10 books. Oh man, on the Maxi Taxi (tiny van bus way of traveling) over there I placed 2 with the two men that sat next to me (We really are focusing on men because we have so many women in the church) and they were both really neat then when we finally found the street we wanted to go to we went to the top of the first block and after 2 floors we already gave out the last 3 and we were able to make it to our last appointment of the night. When Sora Howard and I left the block we could just feel the spirit so strong (she was really on a spiritual high... she could not stop smiling and laughing for joy) and we just felt the spirit confirm that we did what God wanted us to do. We planned, found, and taught by the spirit. I love this work. God's hand is really in it.