January 4, 2022 "Everyone Dropped Us But It's a New Year"

 Hey everyone! 

Like I said earlier, we had a lot of people drop us this week.
We did have a really cool miracle though. 
There was this self-referral named Aaron Kraemer. And for whatever reason I felt like we needed to knock the door in person (we're normally told to text). 
So, at about 8pm on a frozen South Dakota night, we knocked the door. It was so cold that my knuckles froze to the door when I tried. A woman answered, trembling and and breathing great whisps of cloudy air. A chorus of noisy chihuahuas dutifully announced the scene.
"Hello?" She asked. 
"Hi! My name is Sister Waite." My companion greeted her.
"And I'm Sister Brice." I added.
"We're missionaries. We're looking for Aaron?" 
"Aaron? That's my twin. He doesn't live here." She replied, staring staring us with an odd expression. 
"Oh, well we received a request from Aaron for a Bible study. (I'm paraphrasing so this doesn't take super long)." Anna began sniffing and then crying.
"I can't believe it. I've been praying for days for God to sent someone to help me understand the Bible, for a church, and for somewhere to get baptized." 

And guys, it gets better. We find out that her brother didn't send this referral. GOD himself did.
So we had a super hype lesson about the Plan of Happiness and then she got anti-ed super hard and didn't want to talk to us again.
I love you guys. God is good. Especially when life is hard
Also, we did some facepainting and I think I have some potential.

Love,
Sister Brice

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