Anyways!
This week was crazy busy because we're doubling covering how and our area was already the biggest area ever. Craziness.
So
one of the people we're teaching Joselyn can't read from the Book of
Mormon because she can't see the words. So a while ago I got a few
different pairs of reading glasses different strengths and before the
lesson this week I gave them to her so she could try to read with them.
And it worked! We gave her a hymn book because we were going to sing
before the lesson and after she put on the glasses she started smiling
so much and she got emotional because she could finally see well enough
to read. It was such a happy moment. It's crazy the things we take for
granted. She also said she wants to be baptized but she wants to wait
until her husband wants to come to church with her. But he works all day
and get's home late and there's no transportation there in the evening
so we're praying for a miracle!
I had my first
experience with finding through service this week! We were out in Flora
and we were talking to an old Nanay who was shelling peanuts and I saw
an other old Nanay who was tiny tiny carrying two huge buckets of water
so I went over to her and asked to let me carry the water for her. She
was really shy about it but she said yes! So we carried the water to her
house and then she let us in to teach her and her grandchildren. Her
husband passed away a while ago so we talked to her about the plan of
Salvation and she said we could come back and teach her more!
We
taught Dindo and Daniel the word of wisdom this week and they both have
struggles especially with smoking. Daniel smokes 10 and day and Dindo
5. They said they want to give it up so we gave them goals to help them
stop Dindo's goal was to drop down to just 3 and we were going to give
Daniel a goal of 6 and he said "No sisters I can do just 1" His faith
has grown so much! I have so much love for him. He's a less active
member that we met when I first got here and he was super reluctant to
talk to us and kind of quiet and shy and didn't really want to read with
us. But the change we've been able to see in him in just less than 2
months is amazing! He's so excited to see us now every time we go over
there he's reading from the Book of Mormon on his own and he's being a
huge help and support to Dindo as he's preparing for his baptism in
December. The gospel changes lives I know and I see it in him every time
we go there. So cool.
Also Christine prayed
out loud for the first time ever at the end of the lesson. Biggest
miracle ever because she's the shyest person I've ever met. The church
is true.
We had a really fun lesson this week
with Tatay Jerry and Tata. They're so fun to teach because they have
1000 questions. Tata really wants to know where the true church is and
how he can know that it is the true church. He said that if we had the
information he needs to be saved and we don't answer his questions it
will be our fault and not his haha. He's not wrong. They get so excited
every time they learn something new. Each principle takes a full lesson
to teach because they ask so many questions but we know they're really
understanding it so it's great!
We had so many
lessons and new people and miracles this week. Doubling covering is
crazy stuff but we get to see twice the miracles so that's wonderful.
I've felt so much peace this week and strength from heaven. I know that
God's plan is perfect. I've been studying more about the Atonement of
Jesus Christ in my personal study. Three things qualified Christ to be
ready to perform the Atonement for us. 1. He was completely obedient. 2.
He was prepared and willing. 3. He was completely submissive to the
will of His Father. I recognized that all three of those things are
things I can strive to do every day. My goal is to become completely
submissive to God's will for me. Come what may and love it. I'm sooo
blessed.
I love you all. Be good
Sister Zollinger
P.S. I ate chicken liver this week.
Interesting. Also a lizard sat on my lap during sacrament meeting
yesterday. I named him Tinapay(Bread) because I saw him while they were
passing the bread. Also a cockroach sat on my shoulder like a parrot
during our lesson with Christine and I didn't even cry when I noticed he
was there. Ground breaking.
Here is the process to do my laundry.
soak first in soap
then load into the washing machine and fill the machine with water from the hose
then spin twice for 15 minutes
oh if there's stains you scrub them out before you put it into the washing machine
then you rinse off the soap in the machine and put all the clothes into a bucket of water and rinse again
then you put them into a different bucket of water and rinse again
then dry spin twice to get out the excess water
then hang
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