This week was great and we got a new mission Presidents, the Smarts! We had a zone conference where we were able to meet them and they are some of the kindest most charasmatic people I've ever met! I actually wanted to share a story that he shared from his mission because after we had a cool experience that correlated with it:)
He served part of his mission in Nicaragua and when he was there he told us of an experience that he had that i hope i can convey! He said it was his last day with one of his companions before his companion was to be transfered and while contacting they met a man who seemed to have little or no potential becuase he seemed drunk but he said that he wanted them to pass by and teach him, he pointed to a house adn they said that they would come by the next day at 3. AFter this experience he disregarded it because he did not seem like someone who had potential. The following day he and his new companion were out contacting and his companion asked if they had any citas, and he said no and they kept going. Then later his companion being persistent asked again if they really had nobody they could see, and so he told his companion about the man they had met the previous day and they decided to go to his house. When they got there they saw this man sitting with his family who had been waiting for their cita and for them to come and teach. Thsi was a complete shock to them and they taught them and invited them to church with still some hesitance that they would come. Sunday came and the entire family was sitting on the front row when they arrived to church and they were baptized weeks later! He then bore testimony about how sometimes its the people who we do not expect it that are prepared to recieve this gospel and how we must not ignore the promptings of the Spirit. It was so incredible and gave me a lot of perspective!
Now hwo this connected to us: We really just have one progressing investigator right now whos name is Jessica, she is very sweet and has come to church but unfortunately hasn't really kept commitements and we haven't really seen a desire in her to really learn more, it is something that has been hard to discern in my new area becuase many think we are just two cute girls adn like to listen to us but it is really hard to see if someone really wants to learn and at this point many signs were pointing to no from lessons we have had from her but she really is our only one so we have been trying to just help her testimony grow! anyways so we had a cita with her and a member adn we arrived there 20 min late but when we came up we wsaw her sitting on our couch with her book of mormon and she said she was wondering about where we were. This immediately reminded me of the story i had heard the day before from my mission president where he walked in and saw the family sitting down waiting for them adn I immediately felt the spirit adn we had a really good spiritual lesson with her in the Book of Mormon! This was confirmation that we absolutely should keep teaching her because she is receptive to us adn wants to learn so now we are just going to try to really strengthen her testimony:D
This week the elders in our ward also had a baptism! it wwas really fun and the ward was so so so excited becuase it was the first one since November! It truly was a miracle, this man showed up at church 3 weeks ago and we found out that his girlfriend from the Dominican Republic is a member and had invited him to church and told him to find the elders, and he was taught and had this amazing conversion! Also the elders made everyone french toast adn it was super fun!
Anyways so overall this was a really great learning and growing week and i am very grateful for the opportunity i had to truly see the lords had in my life as i recieved a lot of help in the work this week adn i am also grateful for the new mission presidents who already have helped me!
I love you all un MONTON!!
con mucho amor, Hermana Zimmerman:)
breakfast at the baptism:)
we visited a new area this week so here are some pics from that!
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