Week 33: Arizona: 106⁰ with a wind chill🍃

 hello my dearies!!


here are these week's highlights :)

* we made some great contacts with some people who were formerly taught and who are interested in meeting with us again!! so yay!! 

* we met Consuelo, who is an inactive member not interested in returning any time soon but is open to bible studying with us & English classes! 

* most people were nice to us ;) like even if they weren't interested they were still pleasant and polite which was a pleasant change from last week.

* yesterday was probably the best day of the week, it was a spiritual feast. first our branch sacrament meeting was all about missionary work, which was sooo awesomeeee. and then hna horton & i were able to play a special musical number, i love playing with her! and then after church we felt prompted to stop by Ann, who has been previously taught by missionaries but for some reason they stopped going. she told us about how she went to the Mesa Temple open house and how it was the highlight of her life. yes, you read that right. she said she couldn't remember feeling more peace in her life. temples are just such sacred places i am so grateful for them. and it was sooo cool because when we got to her house she was in the middle of panicking because her computer wasn't working and so we were able to help her with that too! God is in the details, of the details, of the details.

* we got to attend the coolest stake youth devotional ever. it was a devotional calling all young women and young men to serve missions. it was just so beautiful oh my goodness the spirit was so strong. i love my mission. i love my mission. i love my mission.

in other news, this week is transfers! hna horton and i are both staying, and we are getting roomates yay!! i cannot believe we have already been here for 6 weeks, so wild. this transfer was very humbling, i have come to realize that the only way to actually navigate life successfully is to rely on the Lord. not just in the times that are hard but for literally everything. 


there is a phrase i read in my personal study that i really love. in the book of mormon, when ammaron is giving the records to mormon, he tells him, "i perceive that thou art...quick to observe." that is something i want to focus extra hard on this transfer. i want to be quick to observe when someone around me needs help, quick to observe when my thoughts/words/actions drive away the Spirit, quick to observe the good in every person i come in contact with, etc etc. i invite you to think of something this week you can be more observant of :)


have a beautiful week! 

hna zayas





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 74: Phoenix/Home: final email- choose Him, He has already chosen you(:

Image
  dearest friends, thursday evening i was released from serving as a full time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. my heart is brim with joy & gratitude for the sacred privilege to wear my Savior's name over my heart for the past year and a half. i testify that He lives!! i know He does!! i bear witness of His divinity. i have seen Him perform miracles. i have seen him change hearts. i have tasted of His goodness, and I know & can promise you that He is the only way to lasting joy & peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come. He is good. always. He invites each of His to partake of His daily bread & living water, that which perisheth not & leaves our souls feeling whole. i know that although He has the power to deliver us from any trial or hardship at any given moment, sometimes He doesn't. and when He doesn't, it is all for our eternal good, for He knows all things from the beginning. yet i know that even in the ...
Read more

Week 7: Arizona: Where did Susie's Head Go?!

Image
  Qué tal?! This was a miracle week!!!!! As I mentioned last week, we have been struggling to find people to teach. On Saturday we got a text from one of our bishops that basically said that a man named Jeff had texted him because he has been thinking about joining the church for a while and he loves watching General Conference and he basically wants to get baptized...ISNT THAT AMAZING?!?! So Hna Sleight and I called him up and he was super excited and was like "Let's plan a time to get together tomorrow after sacrament meeting" and we were like YESSSSS. We met him yesterday and he is the absolute sweetest he is so eager to learn more and fits right in to the ward. Like literally we are having our first lesson with him tomorrow at a member's house. He has so much member support which is honestly so awesome. That was definitely the highlight of our week. Another miracle: so we think our neighbors have been out of town for the past 3 weeks because this week they have st...
Read more

Week 4: Mexico City/Arizona: Goodbye Mexico CCM ;(

Image
  Hi there!! I am in Arizona!!! Ahhhhh today was a long day. I had to be at my bus ready to leave the MTC at 1:30am, so Hermana Gomez and I decided we just wouldn't sleep and instead did some cramping packing and had a nutella with toast party.  Saying goodbye to my district was hard, we all became such great friends, but saying goodbye to Hermana Gomez was so sad I was actually devastated. She is going to do amazing things in Mérida. Once I got to the Mexico City airport I realized there were a bunch of other missionaries too, yay!! One of the hermanas had a ukelele, so while we were waiting by the gate she started playing hymns while me and another hermana sang along. So there we were, 3 hermanas singing super loud, its 4 in the morning and everyone is half asleep... It was actually so fun even though people were given us weird looks ahaha. Once we landed in the Dallas Airport we had to go to recheck our luggage. One of my pieces of luggage was not zipped (it looked like som...
Read more