Sister K. and I got to attend Zone Leader Council. It was super cool and we learned a lot. What with all the info we got there as well as from Elder Bednar last Saturday, our brains were pretty dead. So much dumped in there and no time to process any of it. It just kind of swirls around . . .
A little kid in the ward is trying to convince his parents to let us go to Florida with their family for spring break :) Awesome! We're just trying to work out the kinks with President!
Our investigator M is hilarious! He frequently tells us that he only answered the door when we knocked because he thought we were the Girl Scouts. Yay for cookie season! The other day we had a phone lesson with him and then tried unsuccessfully to set a return appointment; before I knew it, I heard myself saying "The next time we come, we're bringing cookies! We are your Girl Scouts after all!" He laughed and we ended the conversation. Fast forward to the next day. We helped a member clean her kitchen and she insisted on rewarding us with several boxes of Girl Scout cookies! We both immediately thought of M. We delivered the cookies to him with the couple that we wanted to introduce as fellowshippers! It went better than I could have ever hoped -- M was so excited about the cookies, he looked like a little kid. He came out and hugged me when I gave them to him!
We found out while eating dinner with a family that their 6-year-old daughter had insisted on doing missionary role-play the previous night for FHE. She wanted to be a missionary! So they practiced what they would say to their friends when they ask questions. It was really quite touching. It's little things like that that keep me going sometimes!
One day we felt like we were supposed to be somewhere, but couldn't figure out where. Finally we decided to go tract on this street that we'd seen a few days prior. A girl drove past us on her bike and her phone fell on the ground. When she stopped to pick it up, we had a 30-minute conversation about religion. She is super deep for her age (15-17 maybe) and seemed like she genuinely wanted to read the Book of Mormon. Well, any time we have a cool missionary experience we mass-text the Fearless Youth of Zion in our ward. We call it "zweeting." We zweeted to the youth about meeting this girl and got 20 texts back, asking for more details about who she was. Then they started looking for her at school! We didn't ask them to -- they did it all on their own! The next day we got 4 texts from different youth saying that they'd met the girl that day! The youth in this ward are SO AMAZING.
The ward had an RS birthday dinner with a service auction. We put in two "clean kitchen" auctions, and they were two of the most popular bidding items! I won a loaf of fresh whole wheat bread and a fresh blueberry pie!
Love you all! Stay safe! This gospel is true; Heavenly Father loves us and is helping us all to become the best we can be -- ultimately, just like Him! He knows what will make us happy in the end, even if the present isn't easy!
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