Trials of Faith

hello people
another slow week here in mission texas. sister call and i are having a trial of our faith. and so are all of our investigators. they keep getting hit hard with things. but it's ok. we've seen miracles happen too. one thing that was cool this week was when we met elizabeth.
she was baptized about a year ago and has the craziest story ever. we actually got her number from a member of her original ward.
she told she had moved into our ward and gave us her number and address. so we tried to call her and we had the wrong number. we kind of forgot about it for a while but then decided this week to stop by the address and see if anyone was there. she was there. and she almost burst into tears. i guess she had just gotten off the phone with her mom who is a little crazy. she's into televangelism and calls us the "crazy mormon cult" and is very against elizabeth (who is 51) being in the church. she told us that she had been praying all week and asking god to help her figure out what she should do. she said she would go to a different church or do whatever it took to get her relationship back with god. and that her mom had kind of just given her a verbal beating maybe about an hour before we showed up. she said she knew it was an answer to her prayer. so we were excited and told her about the new ward and told her that we already had a ride for her on sunday and then she freaked out even more because i guess when we had actually knocked on the door she had been looking in the phonebook at churches and trying to see if any of them had ride services so that she could get there. she then told us about how the first time she ever met the missionaries she was out pulling weeds in her garden and crying and praying to find god. and mid-prayer the missionaries tapped her on the shoulder. she said she knew right from the start that what they taught her was right. so through fighting with her husband and mom, she ended up getting baptized. then the next sunday when she was supposed to go to church to be confirmed her husband drugged her up on sedatives (he's a nurse or something) so that she couldn't move. one of the members came (the same one that gave us her number) and found her and helped her up and they pressed charges on the husband and now they are divorced. i guess her mom was in on the whole thing too. it's absolutely crazy. but anyway, she is the sweetest woman ever and it's amazing how many prayers she has had answered in the course of the year. the best part is, she is PERFECT for one of our other recent converts and we are going to try and set them up on a date secretly.
:)
anyway. i just took up all of my time writing that story. we are still waiting things out with sister elizondo finding out about her husband in jail. as of right now it's looking like he'll be there three months minimum, if not a year. she's still staying positive about it and everyone in the ward is praying for her. it's still super hot and we still eat way too much. and that is about it. until next week.
xoxo
britt