Hola, I'm the worst at subject lines! :D

hola!

i hope you are all well!

this week we saw some really crazy miracles and had some funny experiences! we absolutely know that our heavenly father is watching out for us even though half the time we have no clue what we are doing! but we had some experiences that showed us how:)

lucy:)

first we have an investigator who was found a few weeks before we got here to yauco, on the registro it said that she was GOLDEN but since  we had had the hardest time finding her, we stop by whenever we can and try calling but we didn't see much luck from it.  so one day we decided to stop by one more time, and if she didn't answer we decideded we probably needed to drop her for a little bit:(  so we stop by and no one answers after about the 3rd call, so we are about to leave and she answers the door!:0

she let us right in and let me tell you she is the absolute sweetest person!  she gave us some treats and told us how today she just wanted to talk to someone, and was just laying down hoping someone would come, then she heard us calling at he rhhouse and she knew it was an answer!  we know that heavenly father is in the details of allll of our lives,and we are so excited to start teaching her more:)

rosa:)

craziest. miracle. ever.

first i know i say this allot, but really we do not know what we are doing or going, or saying half of the time. we have a huge area that we absolutely love but we feel so lost half of the time to know what to do. but we have gained a testinomy that our heavenly father truly is helping us. becuase there is just NO WAY we could do this without him, somethow we are still blessed with people and miralces everydcay even though we dont know exactly what we are doing.

anyways so rosa is the girlfriend of a member who lives in guayanilla. we met her for about 5 minutes about a week ago, and gave a little who we are as missionaries:) haha but this week her novio came up and said that she would love to learn more about the church! she came to church yesterday and we met with her and she is sooo crazy crazy prepared. she lovessss learning and it is increcible teaching her.

this is the best callling EVER.

other fun things!

me and hermana thelin(my second companion) went on an exchange this week and it was sooooo fun and hilarious! we had such a fun time reunited and it was THE BEST! I LOVE HER SO MUCH!

we had an amazing zone conferance with us and mayaguez and it was so incredible! we truly learned how we can use the book of mormon, and how when we read us and all of he people we teach can recieve answers to ANY QUESTION. ANY!

our branch president in yauco came up to us and wants us to possibly teach a piano and english class! haha we are excited to see what happens!

i love this gospel, and i love being a missionary. i love my time in california and i love being in puerto rico again.

i am so incredibly grateful for all of you, and i hoep you know how much I LOVE YOU!

have an amazing week!

con muchisimo amor, Hermana Zimmerman:)

Hola, Hola, Hola!

hola queridas!

this was a great week on my favorite isla!  Me and Hermana Jenson are having a lot of fun together and have seen the lords hand so prominently as we try to learn what he needs us to do in each of our areas.  We have seen him guiding us and here area a few stories and fun things that happened this week that shows exactly how:)

1st-just some good moments this week:)

last sunday we went to the guayanilla ward, and after church 2 members offered to take us around to some of the investigators who had been taught before the hurricane. one was there and we had a great lesson, but the best part was what happened after.  the hermano took us to tons of people he knew! we would just be driving and suddenly he would just pull over and talk to sme of his friends telling them he brought some people who had something to say to them. haha we had some fun contacts and it was such a cool experience! we saw this hermano again on Wednesday, and as he shook his had he just had the biggest grin on his face! he talked about sunday and said how we all had the spirit with us that day. it was so sweet<3

We were able to go to penuelas this week with 2 members! penuelas is a part of the guayanilla ward, and is up in the mountains! we had the most amazing day with the sweetest, humblest members in the world.  they took us to meet many members, and less actives and then to their house, she told us about their experience with the hurricane and I wish we could have been here during the worst of it, which were the months that followed. but more than ever we have seen how god is preparing wonderful things here!   these people are very humble and have the strongest faith, over these past few weeks we truly have grown an even bigger love for these people!

2nd un gran milagro:)

this week we had a day with a few hours of finding so during planning we decided to make a goal of who we wanted to find.  we decided we wanted to find a family of 5. with two kids at home and one in the united states who live in a green house! so we prayed and went out for the day, and a MIRACLE happened.  after about 1 hour of finding we met this man who reffered us to his neighbor. it was a FAMILY OF 5,  they had two girls living at home and one in the united states, and they lived in a GREEN house and were so kind and let us right in as they had talked to missionaries before!  it was a huge miracle.  heavenly father is wating to pour out his blessings upon us,  it reminded us of the brother of jared, he needed light to light the boat, but he had to bring the rocks for heavenly father to touch.  it is the same for us, sometimes we just have to give him rocks to touch, and in this case it happened to be this family we wanted to find, but then heavenly father was the one who led us to them.  heavenly father loves us so much and is watching over us!

overall we had a great week! I love you all so much!

con mucho amor, Hermana Zimmerman:) 

 13 months :D

 mi companera!

me with members in Penuelas!

Siempre estamos perdidas! :D

Hola todos!

me and hermana Jenson are haaving such an amazing time back in puerto rico with our 4 pueblos and no gps in our car... siempre estamos perdidas :0 its the best! jaja

a few highlights/stories that summarize our week:D

something fun-crepe hermanas conferencia!

this wednesday all 18 of the hermanas on the island went to the mission home and had a little conference with crepes! it was the besttttt reunion ever:) especially to see some of the hermanas i hadn't seen yet, including hermana ruff!! haha it really looks like a survivor reunion show as we gathered together! We also learned so many good things and i had a crepe with more nutella than crepe, it was delicious:)

something funny- driving y nuestro casa dulce

okay so this week me and hermana jenson found out that neither of us are great at direccions... we have to drive to ponce for our district meeting, and we were given instruccions but many signs are no longer on the road, but with faith we thought we could do it! haha we did! just took us 1 and a half hours instead of 30.... haha:)

this week we also managed to almost break the toilet, our power went out for a little bit, and i set the fire alarm off when i was making a tortilla! haha we are loving it!

something sweet:)

this week we visitied the other ward we are covering in Guayanilla! it covers two pueblos, guayanilla and Penuelas, and we had a sweet youth  member who offered to take us around, she planned many members to visit ending at her house and it was the sweetest thing ever, we fell in loveeeee with the members.  they were sooo excited to have missionaries back, and hermanas! so many members offered to go with finding and referred us to people!  we truly have been soooo blessed to meet the people we have, guayanilla was hit a little more by the hurricane, this week we saw many houses with blue tarps, especially up in the mountains. all of the pueblos we cover are small pueblos with a lot of campo, and you can tell it just looks warn down, but the most amazing people ever who make you family the second you meet them. they are hilarious, sweet, and humble and i am so grateful to be back, and know that the lord is preparing many wonderful things here in la isla! now we just need to find the people!

I love you all, my mission, puerto rico, california and my savior so much!

hope you have an amazing week, les quiero!

con muchisimo amor, Hermana Zimmerman:)

a sweet family in guayanilla we visited!

our 1 week in puerto rico celebracion!

"Un FUTURO BRILIANTE"

Hola TODOS!

I am in PUERTO RICO! and i couldnt be happier:D

First about my subject line, almost exactly 1 year ago, Elder Anderson came to Puerto rico, and he talked about how Heavenly Father is preparing this island for great things,  and talked about how it has un futuro briliante! And little did we know that a hurricane would be part of that bright future. but through time we came to recognize how the hurricane came to prepare this beautiful island for all of the blessings of the gospel.  Being back in Puerto Rico has made me realize more than ever just how BRIGHT the future really is.

I am covering 3 pueblos right now:0 Yauco, Guanica, and Guyanilla! yuaco and guanica is a small, sweet, amazing branch that we are mainly over, but also cover a ward in guayanilla!  I am also training! AHHHH haha definitely has been a crazy week, but really amazing! my companion is Hermana Jenson, she is from Idaho and is the best, i absolutely love her!  haha i honestly do not know exactly what i am doing, but we have seen a lot of miracles together! and also got lost A LOT together! 

The mission is very different, and it is amazing to see how much we can apply from the missions we were in, we truly have come to see so many miracles as we talk about things we can bring here, and the work is truly amazing!  We have 54 missionaries on the island right now and our zones are still small, haha my zone makes up my district!
 anyways but on sunday we went to the yauco branch, and actually live right across from the building! it is an amazing little rama. before the hurricane there were about 42 member, and now there are about 20, many have moved but we have a vision to get it back to how it was!  We also live right next to one of the members and as sooon as they saw we were they they were so excited! it is honestly the best thing in the world, the members are so happy missionaries are returning, and when they see us, they just give us the biggest hugs and are ready help, and we are ready to serve!

my area in yauco wasn't horribly hit by the hurricane, except in the camp parts, but many of the members got power about a month ago, and are doing well, though they tell about how hard it was.  We are excited to visit the other parts of our area, we dont have a gps haha so we have just tried to use a little map but really it is just a big adventure!

haha some things i have already learned is that if no one  has lived in an apartment for 5 months, you are going to find some unwelcome creatures, and how every puerto rico just makes me smile!

some quick miralces we have seen!

first on tuesday out flight was canceled so i was able to return to my first area in california for the day and it was incredible!! i was able to teach a sweet family i taught and we just saw a lot of miracles, and it ended up being a huge tender mercy!

on friday we went out to find a grocery store and as we were checking out there was a sweet girl who just looked at us and said WHEN DID YOU GET BACK! it turns out she is from the guayanilla ward that we found out we are covering and was so sweet and is going to take us around the area this week!  the members here are amazing and so happy to see misionaries again.

we have two member missionaries in our ward who are 19 and amazing! they use their money to buy gas just to take us to our investigators, and are preparing to serve missions, they truly are amazing!

we also have just seen little miracles with the members, they are all incredible and i love them dearly, when we came back, our neighbors who are member took a picture of us and said the light has returned to yauco! there have been so many things this weeks that have just filled me with joy being back and i am so happy i can serve them and love them!

i hope you all have an amazing week, i lvoe you all so much<3

con mucho amor, Hermana Zimmerman:)

fotos!

 Saying goodbye to Pres. and Sis. Wells 

 My new companion Hermana Jenson at our new ward

 I'm back home :D 

our house and view of yauco<3

 Hermana Jenson and me trying to catch a lizard - Success :D

Pit stop pizza on our way to our areas!

we all had a car and just tried to keep up with each other, haha such an adventure!

The craziest, happiest, greatest CALL!:D

Hola todos! 

This week I found out I will be returning to PUERTO RICO tomorrow!! It is so crazy and exciting, tomorrow it will be exactly 5 meses since hurricane maria:) i have grown a huge LOVE for california, I LOVE what i have learned, and LOVE who i have met, i honestly can't imagine not having this time be a part of my mission.

okay, first i know it is so late to write! i am so sorry if i do not answer your email, today we have had a lot to do, so with the time i do have i just want to share my testimony and things i have learned here in california:)  so far my mission has consisted of many NEVER HAVE I EVERS. haha like never have i ever been through a hurricane or slept on my mission presidents floor, or never have i ever eaten that, or been called that and so forth! haha i actually don't really know where this is going, but i guess as i look at everything that has happened, serving in 2 missions and everything, i can't imagine not having those never have i ever moments, becuase no matter how hard or sad they sometimes are, because when i left puerto rico, it truly was one the hardest things i have ever done, but i can't image it not having happened, because i have also NEVER felt so much love from everyone I met, and never felt so much love from my Heavenly Father, and especially growing an even stronger love for the gospel i teach that I KNOW IS TRUE WITH ALL MY HEART. okay quick story:

a few weeks after i arrived it was still just really hard, and i was it a rut.  I remember praying one night, just thinking about all that had happenedd, and wondering why it all happened. it wasn't a long prayer, i honestly don't know it i even said that much, but as I sat there i suddenly felt everything i was feeling lifted away, and i felt peace!  I remember feeling like my answer was to trust in god. and i felt a quiet assurance that it would all be okay, and i was:) I know that this gospel is true, and i know that heavenly father loves his children, guides his children and knows what is best for his children!

I love California, and i love PUerto Rico, and I love you all for being you!!!  and thank you for all the prayers sent to puerto rico<3

con muchisimas amor, Hermana Zimmerman:)

Transladossss!:0

Hola todos! 

We had such a wonderful week this week!

First with our sweet investigator fatima! She left to el Salvador this Saturday but we saw so many miracles with her! first on Wednesday we had a fast with her to help her find her answer and she and her aunt and uncle fasted with us and when we came to her house that night she literally was just glowing! She was so happy! And loved the fast, she said the whole day she loved how close she felt to God<3 we know she received her answer and i know she will be baptized one day and I am 100% going to visit her one day in El Salvador<3 but we went all of her information and we will keep in close contact as we have become great friends!:D

Alsoooo we had transfers and I am being transferred to a new area called orangewood!  I was definitely a little sad to leave my area ward and east LA but something I have learned on my mission is to trust God, because he knows me better!

Some things I have learned is how much i am in love with street tacos and how the FEAR NO MAN phrase (somethin a lot of missionaries say so we talk to everyone!) Has exceptions... haha I have a list called fear no man UNLESS haha like fear no man UNLESS They tell you they spent 20 years in prison and say they are 23 and joke about you being their first wife... haha east la is the BEST. Jaja

Haha but really I am so grateful that I was able to serve here, I came here after being evacuated and I have learned so much since then, I feel as if my purpose as a missionary had fully gone I to my heart and words cannot express the love I have for this gospel and my savior! 

I love you all sooo much and muchas gracias for all of your prayers for Puerto Rico! This week we can all pray for

Richard! He was someone we found right before the hurricane was a reference we gave and he loved the book of Mormon! It was such a cool contact and a huge miracle find! We had contacted a while and then were led to a specific area and found him as he was planting a tree! Haha it really was so cool and though i dont know him that well i know that heaven,y father looves all of his children individually and how cool that we can all pray for people we may not even know super well, but I know that all of the prayers are helping these people!

I love you all so much!!!

Con mucho Amor, Hermana Zimmerman:)

Muchas fotos Este semana:D

The retanas<3

Fatima! She's seriously the coolest<3

A sweet family in our ward!

Closest thing to a cow i can see in LA!

We found a huge mirror on the side of the road! Haha