Brace
yourselves. This week was a little...really crazy!!
I’m
going to start at the beginning!
This
past Tuesday, I had a really cool personal finding experience. We were walking
a street looking for someone to teach. We were walking pretty slow, passing
houses on the way and I felt the Spirit tell me to go to the house on my right
that had the door open. So that’s what we did. I introduced who we were to the
woman who looked about 30, and I didn’t even have time to ask if we could share
a message with her before she told us to come in!! We entered her house and sat
down. She immediately told us that about a year and a half ago she was visiting
with her friends in their house, when Elder Parker and Elder Savedra (the
Elders in the area at the time), came and shared a gospel message with all of
them. She became really interested but could never find the missionaries again
after that. And there we were!!! She mentioned how she is divorced and lives
with her 8 year old son, who showered us with stickers during our visit. We
taught the woman, Carolina, about the restoration and because she is an ex
Jehovah’s Witness, clarified doubts and questions that she had. She accepted
everything!! She was so happy that we were there and she even ordered chicken
burritos for us to eat with her. It was the first actual burrito that I have eaten
since I got here and was soooo good...but that’s not the point…. I was so happy
when we left! I was grateful that I listened to the Spirit. It’s hard for me to
think about how many missed opportunities that I have had because I haven’t
listened to the Spirit. It’s so important that I am sensitive to its
promptings.
Wednesday,
we had divisions in Guacimo with Hermana Moon and Hermana Tabora. I worked with
Hermana Tabora all day. It was an interesting experience to say the least. At
night, I noticed that it’s a lot darker there and it made me feel a little
uneasey. Well we were in a family home evening when all of a sudden, someone
came and told us that Hermana Moon and Hermana Tejeda were assaulted just down
the street from where we were. Yeah assaulted!! Hermana Tabora and I took off
running to find them but they had returned home! One of the members walked us
home because we were really nervous. It turned out that the guy that assaulted
them had a mask on and the only things that he took were our phone and Hermana
Tejeda’s planner because they screamed and he ran away. Safe to say that we
couldn’t sleep Wednesday night, out of fear and because it’s like 100 degrees
in their house and the Hermanas don’t like the fan....what’s up with that?!
HahaJ
When we
came home Thursday we luckily had another cell phone in our apartment but we
were missing the SIM card. We did what everyone here does and went and bought
he chip at one of the stores. We got all of that settled and headed out to do
our visits. We had an appointment planned at the Bishop’s house which is really
far and the Elders had given us directions. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find the
house. We decided to call the Bishop to ask. Well, it turns out that the phone
that we were using DOESN'T WORK. He was saying "hello? hello? hello?"
and he couldn’t hear us! No one that we called could hear us. Ok, that was
when I knew that we needed to head back to the part of our area that was
familiar. It was dark and I was nervous from the assault the
night before. Well, the only way back was to WALK THE FREEWAY. Yeah we did
that. It was quite the experience trying not to be hit by a truck haha. Don’t
worry, I’m alive. We made it back and continued with our appointments almost 3
hours later. Wednesday and Thursday weren’t the best but they are definitely
memories.
Yesterday
at church we saw major miracles. While one of the Elders was sharing his talk,
I felt that someone was in the doorway of the building. I looked and saw
that a young woman was waving for us to come help her. It was about 5 minutes
before the close of Sacrament Meeting and a couple and their nephew who were
new investigators were there asking for help. Hermana Tejeda and I found them
seats and then accompanied them throughout church. Apparently,
the missionaries had invited them to church about 3 years ago and they came but
never returned, and neither did the missionaries to their house (WHAT!!). The woman, Maria, said that she has been missing
something in her life and wanted to come back to our church. The husband,
Andres, is gringo!!! He is learning Spanish and was so happy that I could
explain things to him in English. He had no fear to try to share his thoughts
in the classes. I am so so so excited to teach them!! They have plans to keep
coming to church which makes me really happy. All of our investigators struggle
with coming to church. I’m also super excited to teach a little bit in
English. It’s funny how much I’ve forgotten!
Well,
that was my week!! I hope yours was amazing! I love you all!
Keep
going strong and stay true to the faith!
Love
Hermana Zerilli
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