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its a girl!

i became an tante (tia or aunt) yesterday morning! sara, our new member from september gave birth to a beautiful baby girl earlier yesterday morning! she was on joint teach with us saturday night till 9pm and since we knew she was going to pop at any moment we kept the phone by our heads and she called at midnight to tell us she was heading to the hospital.  our relief society president picked her up and even got to cut the cord :) yesterday after church we headed to the hospital and got to hold Sam (we got special permission) and enjoy some special time with sara.  as i was holding this tiny thing it really hit me that heavenly father knows what he is doing and that he has a special plan for each one of us.  3 months ago sara had no one, no job, no money to fix her apartment let alone buy food and was praying for help.  then we came into her life and with her incredible faith she now has everything. in the past week we have turned her apartment into a home and she had company with her at the delivery and has visitors often.  she got a job and now has four months of paid time to spend with her daughters.  and this little baby now has a whole ward family to help raise her.  yesterday was a beautiful special day.  we ended the night eating crazy african food with our friends faith and victor and listening to some good african gospel music.  i love it :)

this week was full of all sorts of great things! sunday i got to teach sunday school with i love and saturday we had a stake womans day and we got to teach the woman how to role play giving out book of mormons.  it was a lot of fun and i felt confident in my language which felt fantastic :)  friday we had zone training where of course i was in the kitchen again so i missed some of it but the part of it i was there for was so amazing.  these 20 year old men are so impressive and inspired, i love being around them.  we also had a miracle after training.  sister hinchcliff and i were the last 2 in the church building and the phone at the church rang.  i answered it and a man asked me if this was the mormon church and he wanted to know where he could find a copy of the book of mormon.  he had been reading about the church and had been searching for a book of mormon but couldnt find one.  good thing he was talking to the right people :) so we made an appointment to take one to his house and he came to church on sunday! sunday morning we also received a call from a man we had met on a tram and he told us he was coming to church.  he came, loved it and will be back next week, had already read on his own in the book of mormon and had questions that hes excited to get answered at our next appt where he said hed have a few friends with him.

love you all!

zuster j