Kamusta Kamo!
This week we had scripture hero camp!! Our primary presidency put on this amazing camp that was basically like youth conference for primary kids! And! Alexis and Isabell came!!! Also they've been reading in the Book of Mormon on their own! Yay! They had a great time & we had a great time helping out!
We also had a lesson with amazing grandpa Jacobson and his sweet wife. We read 3 Nephi 17 with them and talked about how we can all have a personal relationship with the Savior.
We started teaching two new amazing people this week! They both have incredible stories and have been so prepared to receive the gospel.
Carrie: we met a few months ago when I first got to California and she has always wanted to meet with us but her schedule has been so crazy but we finally got to meet with her this Wednesday and it was amazing! She opened up to us so much about her family and some really hard things they had been through. Her son actually joined the church several years ago but passed away about a year after :( We got to hear a lot about his story and she told us that she knows that her son would want her to be happy in this life. The spirit was so present when we were talking to her and we all felt so inspired by the Holy Ghost and we were able to know what to say and to help her. She wants to have us back again and we're excited to teach her about our Heavenly Father's Plan of Happiness!!!
Karem: We were out Sunday night following up on a referral from a member but they weren't home- But! There was a family hanging out outside across the street so we went and talked to them! The mom is a nurse and last year she had a patient that she really connected with. He was so grateful that he took her and her whole family to Salt Lake for her birthday! He was a member of the church! He taught them about family History and the temple and what our basic beliefs are! His member missionary work really paved the way for us! She had so many genuine questions! We got to teach her a little bit about the restoration and the Plan of Salvation and she is also happy to have us come back! I know that Heavenly Father puts people in our path when we are prepared! And he blesses us so much when we fear no man and talk to everyone!!
Sister Thedell and I also had another lesson with Oca this week!! And we finally took a picture with him! We were a little short on time because we had a mission conference on Saturday- so we read Alma 32 and Moroni 10 with him. We asked him if he would pray and ask God if everything we had taught so far was true and he said hmmm no because I already believe everything! He's so wonderful haha. We talked a bit about how we can pray always about anything. He said he is really interested in the Book of Mormon and learning more or he wouldn't keep meeting with us every week. He's the best.
Also Sister Thedell got her VISA this week along with a lot of the missionaries from our MTC zone!!!
Saturday we were visited by Elder Whiting of the 70! It was a great experience. It was so cool to see how the Holy Ghost had been preparing me to receive his message without even realizing it! We talked a lot about personal revelation and the pattern for receiving it.
The Lord of the Vineyard is in the vineyard! I see Heavenly Fathers hand in every little detail of everything we do out here. I am so grateful and humbled everyday to see how much He loves His children. I'm so grateful that He has a plan for me that's always better than my own. As we strive to study the scriptures everyday, to pray, and have the Holy Ghost with us Heavenly Father can trust us to send us on His errands. The strangers we meet out in the world- the seeming coincidences are the people Heavenly Father has placed in our path to love!
I wish I had a perfect memory and could share every amazing thing that happens to us but I'd have to write novels and I don't have that kind of time! But the work is great!!! I'm going to be a missionary forever!
Palangga ko kamo!!
Sister Zollinger
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