Miracles happen

Hello, lovely family! I am so grateful to be a missionary!!! I have seen so many miracles lately, it´s incredible. Heavenly Father is very, very kind.
First of all, before I forget, here is a referal for Spencer. I don´t know if it´s your area, but if not, could you pass it on? We taught a cousin of the bishop´s wife, and her daughter lives in Portugal! Small world, huh?
Adriana is the daughter of Benedita (our investigator--bishop´s wife´s cousin). ----- Amadora
LISBOA--. Let me know how it goes!
So, we have had some amazing experiences here this week! Heavenly Father is blessing us a great deal. We had a wonderful Zone Conference and then used the Preach My Gospel DVD from the training for a Missionary Fireside in our ward. It talked about the importance of the members and how some sister missionaries taught a couple at the member´s house. They planned out before the lesson with the members, who would teach what. Then, the camera people interviewed the couple afterward and they said that had the missionaries just knocked on their door, they probably would´ve said no. But, because they met them at a friend´s house, they were more open to hearing the message. How awesome is that?!!! The members got really fired up and we got over 25 referals that night out of less than 10 members (who went ot the fireside). Not too shabby. We already taught some of the referals with the members and it has been proving to work real well. Imagine that? Just a little bit of planning and miracles happen! :)
Another miracle: Lurdes. I made a contact with a woman last week. We taught her, but she didn´t show much interest. She gave her neighbors as referals and yesterday we contacted one of the neighbors. Wihtout even asking the neighbor told us to go visit Lurdes bc she likes hearing about God. We knocked before lunch, but no one answered. We returned after lunch and finally she answered. She is a sweet little old lady who lives all alone and is in great pain. She can´t even clean her own house bc of the pain. Immediately, we got to work cleaning her house. It was wonderful! She accepted going to church with us and I just know she has been being prepared for the gospel. She cried from happiness at our kindness and love. Not even her family (who lives close) visits her or helps her at home. She said she had been praying for God to send someone to help comfort her, and then we showed up! What a blessing to be an answer to someone´s prayer! My heart is so full of gratitude. I stand in wonder when I think of how carefully God plans out everything. He truly is a perfectly organized, meticulous, loving Father!
Another miracle. Pedro. We taught him and then he stopped coming to our lessons, didn´t go to church so we took that as he wasn´t interested. Then, we got a message he´d gone looking for us at the church. We tried calling him all week-end, but only got the answering machine. He went to church in another ward where his sister lives and loved it. We finally got a hold of him Monday night adn he went to the chapel for a lesson that minute! We marked his baptism and he is very excited. He is one of the most prepared people I have ever seen. He kept on saying that there is a time for everything...and we have to put God´s will above our own..etc. It is wonderful to see how really we as missionaries don´t do much at all. The Spirit is who does the converting. I feel so privileged to see this process in so many lives up close and personal. I love being a missionary!
Thanks for all your support and pictures, etc. Question: is there cream of milk in the USA? Also, I really, REALLY need someone to empty out my inbox. It´s at 98%. If no one does, I won´t get any mail next week. Thank you for your love and consideration. . Please print out the emails and then delete and purge them from my inbox. Thank you very much, that´s the nicest thing that anyone´s ever done for me! :)
Love, Sister Ellis