Sister Worthington Update and Latest Letter

I have long contemplated if I should share this information, but this is part of the story of Sister Worthington's journey that I think is important.  We all face adversity, and it is inspirational to see how Sister Worthington is working to overcome hers.

I won't go into a lot of detail, but over the last several weeks, Sister Worthington has struggled with some anxiety and sadness about some things that happened early in her life.  She has been meeting with the mission psychologist and has decided to stay on her mission and work through things there.  We are SO proud of her for making this decision and ask for prayers on her behalf. (Thank you to those of you who fasted for her with us on Sunday!) She has a great deal of faith and here's the really good news!!  This week, it seems she has made a turn.  It appears she has even begun to discover the blessings that have come from facing trials in her life!  After a few heart-wrenching letters, we can't even express the joy we felt at receiving this one on Tuesday!  The promises made to her in the priesthood blessings she has received lately, that if she stays she will touch lives and see people enter the waters of baptism, are truly beginning to come to fruition.

Here is her latest letter:

Hello so this week was amazing!!!!! so get ready for a long email and it will be out of order hahahaha. So we went to a less actives house and we were talking to her and she said she had been feeling lonely lately so i told her of when i was younger and how alone i felt and right then and there she started to cry and told me thank you it has amazed me how my experiences when i was younger helps me relate to people here alot and makes me care for them more. So then tuesday night my companion, a ward member and i were looking for a member that we had an appointment with. And we found out that she moved. So we tried calling her and others to find out where she was but no such luck. so we went to a backup plan so we went to our back up plan and right before she called us back. but we were right there and decided to knock on the door and a lady answered. She said shes had really bad diabetes and arthritist and she started balling and told us she felt very alone. So we told her we had to go but we set an appointment to go back. so we went back a few days later and talked with her and taught her about faith in christ and the spirit was very strong it was awesome. So then we taught another la (less active) and we taught her also about faith and i bore my testimoney to her and she also started to cry. and then she came to church on sunday after a year of not going!!!! it amazed us!!! And we found out from other missionaries that shes never cried before. the power of testimoney is amazing. It really converts people. So then we got a phone call from elders and they said that there is a new family in our ward that went inaactive due to some events in their old ward and that they were in our ward. So then a few hours later she called us and asked to talk to us. It amazed us all. So we went by and their amazing!!!! it was a single mother with 3 daughters. and they go to the temple to read their scriptures often and their testimonies are strong. So we talked with them and i had this feeling to ask them if they needed preisthood blessings and they all said yes. So we got them arranged and we wernt there but we heard they went extremly well. We saw her today and they are doing loads better and ward members have gone by to see them and their very excited to come to church sunday. we are very excited. So then we met with a jehovah witness that we met last week. And it was akward!!!! i have never felt the spirit of contention at a lesson. she tried so hard to convert us that we finally had to walk out of the house. So then our ward split and it got me very excited!!! ward splits means that the church is growing. we saldy lost the elders in our ward but now my companion and i cover the whole ward by oursleves. and at that meeting there was a deaf guy so i signed to him. and he got really excited and hugged me (akward!!!!) and then asked me for my fb info, phone number everything it was really funny and really sweet that i made his day. Then we helped a member move and her mom who wasnt a member told us how amazing we were and asked if we could start to teach her we told her yes!!! so thena few days later we were talking to sisters and we found out that she use to yell at missionaries. And we have been over to help her daughters soooo much that her heart had changed. so we taught her last night and it was amazing!!!! and the miracles and amazing stuff go on!!!! I love you all and hope you all had a great week!!!