Some news from Bacolod
2nd:
Sergio and Kenneth were baptized this Saturday! President Sumagpao
attended and texted me yesterday and told me about it. Even though the
place is flooding the baptism was still wonderful :) He said they were
strong in the faith it filled my heart.
Some miracles from La Carlota 2nd Branch:
Sister
Dansie is super super good at Hiligaynon all the people are impressed
with her I like to tell people she's only been here for 5 days and watch
them lose their minds never gets old haha. Shout out to the gift of
tongues and really great MTC teachers.
So
Sister Dansie is brand new to the mission field and I'm brand new to La
Carlota so neither of us know where anything is but we haven't got lost
once!! We're trying to find all the people the last sisters were
teaching and we've been able to find all of them with like super minimal
effort it's pretty amazing- Example we were looking for this guy named
Jericho and no one had any idea who it was- we decided to walk down to
the end of the street and just tag balay (calling the owner of the
house) and literally the first and only house we went to was his house.
It was nuts. We taught him and three of his friends the Plan of
Salvation they loved it.
Another miracle: So
we finished our lesson at like 8:15 and we don't need to be home until 9
and we wanted to be productive until the end of the day but people
usually get kind of mad if we show up unannounced that late so we
stopped in the middle of the road and prayed that someone would be
outside that we could talk to. We walked like 100 more yards and Sister
Dansie was like let's turn here but she didn't even know there was a
street there so we went down the street and there was a couple outside
their house just getting home! We went and talked to them and the
husband was super nice and told us a bit about their family and we got
his number and set a return appointment! Also on Sunday we found a
member family with a brand new returned missionary son who know them and
agreed to come teach with us.
It's been
raining and winding here so much the past few days we got so soaked on
Saturday plus everyone was gone or hiding or sick so that was kind of
rough but we still got to teach a few solid lessons and found some new
people. The work must go on!
Sunday no one
came to church and that really hurt- I haven't experienced that since
last year and I forgot how painful it is haha but we have lots of faith
for the coming weeks and we're already seeing so many miracles. On
Sunday we got two tatays (fathers) committed to live the word of wisdom and come to
church next Sunday.
Also our appointment after that wasn't
home but we met the brother's mom and she wants so come next time so
that was good- We started teaching her son and his family on Friday and
they're super interested and receptive.
Also on Sunday we
found an older couple in their 60s and we
taught them and two of their
daughters and a bunch of their grandchildren. It was one of the best
lessons they were all so focused and engaged and asked the best
questions and tatay Antonio was super excited when we gave him a book of
Mormon he was like "I'm definitely going to read this" We assigned them
1 Nephi 8. They've been to tons of churches but haven't liked any so
have just kind of stuck with catholic but aren't really super active in
that either. Super cool family and they really want us to come back and
they said they'll invite the rest of their family so that's exciting!
Our
area has a ton of subdivisions and people that are pretty well off
which is different. I'm grateful for my time in California I feel more
prepared for this and I still have faith that the elect can be found
everywhere we're teaching a ton of complete families right now too which
is really incredible. I'm really excited for this transfer and the
miracles we will see.
I love you all. Give Heavenly Father your heart, that's all He's ever asked for.
Sister Zollinger
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