My companions are the best missionaries ever! They're super funny, obedient, really good at contacting, and sweethearts. I'm so grateful for Sister Packard and Sister Van Tassell!!
In this ward with live a member named Sister Ellis and she seriously is so amazing! She is DEFINITELY the "mom" for the missionaries in this ward. She has been a missionary for many years in the past, so she knows all the rules. Sister Ellis is also our best friend. We'll go upstairs and cook out dinners (usually around 8:30 because we're working too hard to do it earlier) and we hang-out with her. She also helps us out with supplying around the house things, so that saves an extreme amount of msf.
In my zone, we cut down a set of sisters (they swept us out from my old ward), there's only one STL (me), and I'm only over the other set of sisters in our zone. My new District Leader is serving in my old ward, so we are talking a lot about both of our areas. My zone leaders are awesome, and we have an AP in our zone.
We LOVE to share are miracles with our Zone Facebook page, so here's what we told them;
From Friday:
Hey there Wild Wild Westminster Zone! We are so excited for this amazing transfer and the wonderful miracles we will all see. We wanted to start off by sharing some of the miracles that we were able to see today;
1. Our first contact this morning was Tiffany. Sister Packard applied her to the message we share as missionaries. Tiffany seemed really interested and said she was busy, but told us to come back any time next week. We set a time to see her Tuesday morning and got her phone number.
2. We texted a potential and she invited us to come over today. Sarah used to meet with the missionaries and come to church many years ago. Today she expressed to us how good she felt when she came to church, and we invited her to attend church this morning. We were able to pick her up as a new person to teach. Set another appointment to see her tomorrow morning.
3. Before we left an apartment complex, Sister Van Tassell wanted us to go stop-by someone who formerly came in contact with the missionaries. We knocked on Claudia's door and she let us in. She is so sweet! We talked to her about our purpose as missionaries and about church. She asked us about how we felt at church and we were able to share our testimonies. Claudia is super excited to come to church this Sunday and was saying how church "sounds so nice".
Great kickoff to this transfer!! 🤙🏻🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉
From Sunday:
Hello again wild wild Westminster zone!!!
🙌MORE MIRACLES TODAY!!🙌
We fasted for our area last night and this morning, and wow, the results are incredible!!
Sara, who we just picked up yesterday, came to church with her daughter and loved it! We later stopped by her house, but she was gone due to some family problems that came up. So we rescheduled to meet with her later the same day. We came by later and felt prompted to invite her to be baptized. She didnt accept it right then, but said she would pray about it and receive the lessons from us. We promised her many blessings if she took this leap of faith! She definitely had a change and softened heart by the end of our visit and is in a good place to move forward towards baptism.
Vincent is a guy we met through Sara and has talked about some evil spirits in his house that need to be cast out. We talked about how through the power and faith of God and Jesus Christ, those spirits could be driven from his home. He really wanted us to come over and do that, so we came over today with Elder Cabrera and Elder Vaccaro. They gave a special prayer on his home to make it a sanctuary where the spirit could dwell. The spirit was so strong and we testified of the power of God that has been restored on the earth today. We asked them if their family would like to learn more, and they said yes! They were very grateful for the prayer and Vincent's wife, Lisa, was thanking us with tears in her eyes.
We went by Iberia and her six daughters today and brought her and her mother each a cope of the Book of Mormon. They were so grateful for it and are very excited to read it! We shared Moroni's promise with them and also invited them to come to Meet the Missionaries. They got so excited and are all definitely coming to Tuesday's showing! Iberia's mom, who was the most closed off, even said she wanted to come and is excited to see the show.
We have had so many incredible contacts today and made three solid return appointments! We met Amber while walking to another appointment and simply asked her if she wanted to learn more about Jesus Christ and come closer to him. She said yes! We also met Sophia while walking and she moved in just five days ago. She told us about her family situation and how hard it is. We shared with her that the gospel blesses families and asked her if we could share that message with her. She said yes and got really excited to receive more peace and joy in her life and in her family. At the end of our conversation, she was in tears, just overcome with gratitude that God had sent us to her. She expressed how grateful she was that we stopped to talk with her. We set a return appointment with her for tomorrow night! We also felt inspired to knock on a particular door and met a guy named John. He shared his love for Jesus Christ and said he goes to a Christian church already. We shared with him that truth has been restored to the earth and asked him if he wanted to learn more about it. He said yes! He wants us to contact him later to set an appointment, and is planning on coming to Meet the Missionaries!
Our members from our ward are also just on fire!! We had MCM after church today and talked about a less active member. A new ward missionary noticed she was related to them in a round about way. She was so excited that she stopped by them after our meeting and was able to contact the whole family. She was also able to get in contact with the relief society to figure out her ministering sisters. The returning member is ready to come to church in our ward more often! Also, our Primary President came and talked to Sara's daughter after sacrament meeting and totally took her under her wings and to her class. She later told us that it was a prompting from the spirit. During today, Sara called up being super stressed that her daughter's babysitter bailed so last minute. We called our Primary President and she started calling people so fast. Also, a recent convert, Hajir, came up to us today and told us about her four friends who want to learn about the gospel, and how she has given them Book of Mormons already! We love this ward!
So sorry this is such a long post. We are just so overcome with the miracles and blessings we have seen in this area. God is truly reaching out in great power, and WE ARE SO GRATEFUL!! 😁😁😁❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
(Sister Savage responded to that with a hypnotizing GIF and "Wow doesn’t even begin to express how exciting this all is!!!")
Meet the Missionaries:
There wasn't too many people at our Saturday performance, but the crowd was so hyped!! We have a performance near us on Tuesday and we've been able to invite lots of people. A family of 8 and many people here and there are excited to come, and lots of members are bringing their friends!
Miracles from that:
Sister Van Tassell met these two girls. One was a member and she brought her nonmember friend. Her friend was given a Book of Mormon and they asked the missionaries to explain a verse she didnt understand. This friend now wants to take the missionary discussions and accepted the invitation to come to church yesterday.
With all these amazing blessings happening and more, there's no other way this transfer could be made any better! Like I said, I'm dying a happy missionary.
Shout-outs;
♡To my wonderful two friends that would hang-out back in TC and talk about how I didn't ever sleep, that fact is so real with how busy we are!!
♡I'm going all out on the Hartman Color Code with my two new companions.
-Sister Reynolds :)
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