I am the greatest missionary!
Hey hey hey! What up? So this week has been incredible and I am so glad that I have time to share it with all of you this week! First of all, Hermana Zimmerman and I have learned a lot about sacrifices this week. We have realized that starting this area is stretching us and causing us to make more sacrifices than normal, like only e-mailing for an hour instead of 1 hour and 30 minutes but it is all so worth it.
This week we had zone conference and it was exactly what I needed! It was all about being ourselves as we use the new skills we have been given. I loved this because Hermana Zimmerman has declared that I have hit my mid mission crisis meaning that I am really trying to figure out how to be the best missionary that I can be. I have felt that I have gotten a little robotic and too caught up in the routine of things so it was great to be reminded that I have been called to be me!
Sister Alba talked about how we can all be the greatest missionary! At first I thought that is not true I can never me great because I have this flaw and that flaw and on and on and on. Then I thought to myself Stop it!, there is nothing that is stopping you from being great.... you are the greatest missionary. Sister Alba shared many experiences about great missionaries. One of the stories she told was about President Faust and how him and one of his companions decided that they were going to be examples of missionaries who worked the hardest. They worked very hard and were exactly obedient but they did not have any baptisms. They both learned that it does not take baptisms to make you a successful missionary it just takes hard work! I realized that this is all Hermana Zimmerman and I need to do we just need to work hard and try our best every day and we will be blessed with miracles and that is all we need!
President Alba then taught us about true conversion and how we must truly be converted in order to help others be converted. He taught us that pride will stop us from being converted and he gave us a talk by President Benson that is incredible. It made me realize that pride is such an easy sin to fall into and it can be just simply not wanting to follow the Lord's will for just a second. So I am praying for humility and trying to submit every ounce of myself to the Lord.
One of the assistants talked about the importance of bringing everything we do back to Christ. This really hit me hard because I feel like I try to do this but we can always do better. I feel like sometimes we teach about the Book of Mormon but fail to mention that it is another testament of Christ. It is such a privilige to wear Christs name right under mine every single day but I am trying to make sure that I am just not wearing it in vain and that I am truly following His example.
So this week we learned so many wonderful things and we tried our very best to be the best and although we did not see the fruits that we would have hoped for it was a good week!
We taught an amazing lesson to Jorge after Zone Conference and even thought the spirit was super strong he told us that he just feels like he needs more time to read and study on his own but he promised in the name of Jesus Christ that he would continue to read the Book of Mormon. So we will try to go and see him again in a few weeks and see how things are going. It has just been hard because he was our only progressing investigator but we know that it was the Lord's will.
We have been trying a lot of new ways to find new investigators like service tracting where we knock doors offering service or phone tracting where we go through our records and call people trying to set up appointments or share the gospel.
I am truly loving this area so much! The branch is small but great! We had a linger longer potluck yesterday after church and it was super fun! These people are salt to the earth and love us missionaries we just need to get them to help in this work!
It is beautiful here and no matter what the circumstances are this work is a beautiful thing to be a part of!
Continue to share the gospel and to help the missionaries.
Love you!
Hermana Hillary
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