Week 40: Arizona: play it coooool😆

 wowowow how is it already monday?!!

this week was literally so awesome!! hna brandt is my new companion, she is literally the best! we work hard & have a lot of fun <3 it doesnt even feel like i am greenie breaking her!

highlights:

* our lesson with Gloria and her girls was sooo good! we are realizing that Gloria is not actually super interested BUT her daughters are!! like they participate in lessons and have been coming to mutual consistently AND came to church for the first time yesterday :))))

* on Friday we got to leave the mission and go to the mesa temple visitor's center for a pass off lesson with the mesa sisters, bret, and one of our members. the Spirit was soooo strong literally felt like I was in heaven. we invited him to be baptized and he said yes! november 12th! sooo excitingggg

* before our lesson with bret we walked around the mesa temple for a bit since we dont really get to go to the temple. it was so special though because even though we weren't able to go inside i literally felt like i was inside it was amazing i literally got homesick for my home in heavan.

* we knocked on the door of a less active member named Maxim. we got to know him for a bit and he eventually told us he doesn't believe he needs God or the church to be happy, that life is just as great without it. in that moment my mind was just racing and i was like "ok ok what scripture or what principle or what video do i share with him" when i just got the impression to ask him a question: "when was the last time you offered a prayer to your Heavenly Father?" he had kind of defensive and was like no no no i am not ready to do that. then the second impression i had was to testify. so i did. and his eyes started to tear up and all of a sudden this man is crying. it was the craziest thing in the world, but such a wonderful reminder to me that 1. i should ALWAYS follow promptings and 2. no one can deny your heart felt testimony of something.

* we had 8 friends at church. EIGHT. such a miracle

* tender mercy: out of all the less active member contacts we visited only one was hostile!!

* the peruvian family the elders in our branch are teaching are getting married and baptized on november 5th!!!!!! eeeeeeeeeeek!!

this scripture really spoke to me this week:

"Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters...yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy...come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which perisheth not, neither can be corrupted..." 2 Nephi 9:50-51

no matter what the world claims, Jesus Christ is the only true, lasting source of joy. this joy is deep, pure, sweet, filling, soul-expanding, and eternal. oh He is just so good, so wonderful. turn to Jesus Christ. He will give you rest  <3

thank you for your emails. you dont even know how happy they make me. i love and pray for you!

con mucho amor,

hna zayas