Fun update in my language journey: I officially dream in Hiligaynon so that's pretty sweet!
We had some amazing lessons this week!
I
love seeing the people we teach come to understand and accept in their
hearts basic gospel truth. One of my favorites is when we get to teach
people that God the Father. Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are three
separate beings. We were teaching Mary Ann this week and she was
confused about that and as we were teaching and clarifying it was SO
cool to see the light bulbs go on as the Holy Ghost confirmed truth to
her. What a blessing to see. Her heart is so receptive to the gospel we
love teaching her. When we were getting ready to leave she was like
"wait.. Who's Mormon!" haha I love teaching people that have questions!
It's fun to help them answer the questions of their soul and see their
knowledge grow and their hearts soften.
We had another
wonderful lesson with Marivic. She lives really far away and it's hard
to get transportation out there so we don't get to see her as often as
we want but she's amazing! We taught her about the Book of Mormon and
she was really excited to read and pray. She was so happy to see us and
glad that we came. At the end of the lesson she jumped up and told us to
wait while she went to buy us sweets haha. She's the best. We also got
to teach her dad with her this time.He's kind of deaf like me and speaks
mostly Cebuano but he was also really happy to learn. We found out she
has a brother who is a member!
Like always I wish I could
share every lesson but it would take all day! I love the people we teach
so much. They're wonderful examples to me and it's such a blessing to
see their faith grow!
We finally got to watch
Conference this weekend! Wow! What a delight! The whole thing was like a
giant spiritual hug! Some themes I noticed where Fear not! Lift up thy
head and Rejoice! and we need to become like Christ in everything we do-
especially in loving and ministering to his children.
Sometimes I think I get weighed down by the gap between where I want to be and where I am. I think sometimes we let our fears and inadequacies get in the way of realizing our divine potential. This conference I realized that all we need to do to overcome that is to focus on our Savior and focus on his children! "Just do your best. "Then the Miracles came!" I know that perfect love casts out all fear. So when we are focused on giving all our love to the people around us there's no room for fear. There's no room for doubt or second guessing our own abilities. When we're focused on others we can receive more help from the Holy Ghost. Christ never used his power to help himself. It was always always for others. I realized that we have to have pure intentions for wanting revelation and power from the Holy Ghost. We have to want it so we can help and love others. Also if we're doubting not and fearing not and looking to Christ in every thought- our thoughts will be focused on the welfare of those around us.
That's the highlights of what I learned. We need to try try try to be like Jesus. He'll help us I know it.
We
had so many beautiful experiences and lessons and new people to love
this week. The Lord of the vineyard is in the vineyard!I see his hand in
everything we do. Especially in the timing. I'm grateful that I prayed
all those months ago for patience. It helps a lot ;) I'm so grateful to
be a full time shepherd. Even if I can't be a German Shephard like Elder
Uchtdorf.
The church is true. God loves us so much. Try to be like Jesus.
Palangga ko kamo!
Sister Zollinger
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