Something I learned this week: Anyone can be ready for the gospel. We have an investigator named Chrissy who lives in the ghetto and we drop by her house a lot. Her next door neighbor is always on the porch kind of glaring at us. We always say hi but she never says anything back. Well on Tuesday when we stopped by and Chrissy wasn't home we started to write her a note. Then the lady on the porch next door asked us what we do. We told her how we help families and she said "well, ya'll need to come over her and help my family!". haha it was so funny. We went over and taught her and she is a new investigator. You never know who is ready! It might be the lady who gives you the stink eye!
We got to teach a lot of less actives this week. One in particular, Sister Love, had a lot of misconceptions about the church and forgot a lot of the teachings. For some reason afterwords Sister Jolley and I didn't have the spirit. If you don't know this already, nothing gets done in missionary work without the spirit! You must have it constantly if you want to serve. Well we tried to find a potential investigators house and it didn't exist. We said a prayer in the middle of the sidewalk. In my head I was pleading with Heavenly Father for a miracle! I told him we are so obedient and we are just trying to help His children. Just give us a miracle. We started walking down the street seeing which house the spirit wanted us to knock at. We saw these amazing flowers and decided to knock at this door. The lady came out and she was awesome! She had met with 2 sets of missionaries before! What are the odds. She was no where in the area book. Diana. Sister Jolley and her golden have an appointment this Friday with her.
We had a meeting with all the zones in Delaware on Friday. The STL's took all the sisters into a room to teach us seperatly. They taught us about our worth. I didn't realize how much I needed the words they spoke. They taught us that our [great] worth is set. It will never change. No matter numbers ( weight, baptisms, lessons, zits on our face). None of that matters because it doesn't effect our worth. The only things that matters is our commitment to do the Lord's work. That's what makes us a successful missionary.
Same with member missionaries. You can't mesure your's success by the outcome. The fact that you invited is the only thing that matters. Christ provided us with the atonement. When people don't accept and use that atonement, does that mean He failed? Nope. Same with our invitations.
Hope 4th of July was fabulous! All the missionaries got to stay out until 10!!! SO late!
One more quick funny story.
Fast Sunday this Sunday. Super nervous to go up and bare my testimony (thought my mission would help with that...guess not). Waited till the last minute and walked up while the last lady was talking. Sat down on the stand. Once you are up there you have to talk right? wrong. Bishop Harrison stood up and closed the meeting and I was just sitting there!!!!! hahaha according to the members I looked pretty surprised. Everyone was smiling. hahaha after the meeting Bishop came up to me and said he didn't see me and he felt so bad. I suppose it didnt help anything when I told him I was being transferred. He felt SO BAD! He made up for it by feeding us dinner. I am going to miss him and the ward. Truly is the promised land down here. DON'T PROCRASTINATE!
Happy 4th and Shout out to Elder Joey Tanner! FB friends :) He is just right above me.
Love,
Sister Zeller
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