A Week of Miracles

(Sister Cummings)
First off I am just going to say that we still have not gotten lost thanks to many prayers. All in all there were about 8,000 people who visited the temple this week and I go to be there for about 4,000 of them. We worked everyday this week taking the hour and a half drive to get there, sometimes needing to wake up at 5:00 am in order to make it on time. I actually started getting cramps in my legs from driving our aged car from our end of the island to the other. But it was worth the sacrifice.

We were able to see so many miracles in being there. For example there was a moment when I and my companion were working in the reception tent and I was helping people at the information counter when a woman came up who only spoke spanish. Now the area I am serving in used to be full of spanish speaking people, however with certain changes in the area boundaries we actually do not teach in spanish all that often. So I have not really had the time to learn Spanish as I am trying to perfect my French. Well with that being said I really do not speak Spanish. Anyways so I started helping this woman, she pointed to one of the pamphlets that we had about genealogy asking if she could take it. I said she could but we only had those ones in French however we did have these other pamphlets that were in spanish, they were the same thing but just smaller. I then invited her to fill out one of the comment cards. Which is a pretty normal conversation except it was a little different this time because I WAS SPEAKING FLUENT SPANISH. One of the sisters serving from Mexico commented on how good my accent was and asked if I had spoken spanish at home... Well lets just say the gift of tongues is real and that that woman probably really needed that pamphlet because God performed a miracle to give it to her.

Another miracle happened a little later in the original form of an adversity. This entire week our car has been just having problems. Hmmm Funny how it just happens to be on this week of all weeks where the House of the Lord would be open to the public. Anyways one of the main problems has been that randomly our trunk opens. As in, getting of the highway and suddenly it just pops right open and we can't close it. We had talked to one of leaders and he had showed us what to do when it happened. SO one morning we were running a little late to the temple, we had hit some unexpected traffic and had turned onto an empty road. There was literally no one there when suddenly our trunk opens. We obviously pull over to the side of the road and try doing what our leader had shown us. It didn't work. We tried again. Nope. Nothing. Before reverting to insensible slamming of the trunk multiple times we called our leader and he wasn't available. Finally I said a prayer. I had just finished when a man comes out of literally nowhere. The road was completely empty and then this guy is just there. He comes up and in perfect English (which was quite rare for the area that we were in at that time which is known as the most french area) shows us how to close our trunk. And it works. I don't think I have ever been so grateful in my life for someone who could show me how to push buttons. After saying thanking him we got back into the car and...the guy had vanished. We are pretty sure it was one of the three Nephites or an angel. Because that was actually the day that we could not be late to. The most people came through the temple and the most miracles happened.

Now I don't really have too much time to continue but I did want to share one last miracle. We were working the video rooms which consisted of inviting people into the room giving a short speech very similar to a flight attendant speech and then starting the video. It was early in the week so not as many people were coming. Our tour group ended up being only two non-member men. We had some time to get to know them and we asked if they had ever been in a temple before. One had never been in a temple but he had lived two blocks away from the Oakland California temple for about ten years and had always wanted to visit a temple. The other his grandmother had been a member but his mother had never been baptized or was interested in the gospel. But he had started looking into the church when he had stumbled upon the temple open house. Now this was maybe our fiftieth time doing the introductory speech and watching the video but this time was different for some reason. he spirit was very strong and after the video we saw that both men were crying. AND THAT WAS ONLY THE VIDEO. We did not get to see them after their tour but I am confident that they had felt the spirit even stronger.

I am so grateful I was able to be a part of the temple open house here in Montreal. This was a moment I realized I was quite prepared to be a part of. The chances of people able to be a part of it at the exact last transfer of my mission where my French is at its best and I have become aware of how to follow the spirit was amazing. I am so glad that I could be a part of this wonderful experience. I love every single one of you and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Love

Sister Cummings