.: Week 76 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

Week 76

So I gave a talk in church last Sunday--my LAST talk! Sooo weird :) And it was about 'Why is it important to gain spiritual knowledge and develop spiritual skills?' I was ALL over that :) That was a really fun experience this week. I told the Grullo family they needed to come early and sit on the front row so I had my support group--they didn't do half bad. They only missed 2 minutes of it ;) but anyway...good experience with that this week.

With the Grullo family at church

My companion--Sister Cudo

Dear Fam and Frenz,

Hey everyone :) I feel like I literally ran a marathon this week my goodness. We had so much to do and places to be--but it was a week enjoyed and one to be remembered. I still am firm that my mission weeks have been the most unpredictable thing ever--you plan, study, teach...but in the end you honestly have NO idea what is going to happen. It makes life fun and trust in Heavenly Father. I'm down to 2 weeks...where does the time even go haha...But anyway on to our week!

We had a service project on Tuesday. We cleaned cute Sister Rio's house---she had a stroke a few years ago and her husband is getting old so our district volunteered to clean their house. This was maybe the scariest house I have ever been into...cockroaches, mice, rats, spiders--you name it and it was there. I only screamed twice. One was when they moved a big piece of wood and out came like 100 cockroaches, other time was when a rat ran across Sister Cudo's foot. Other than that, I was super tough. But to be honest, its so fun to do service projects--we truly had so much fun :) Always blessed to be apart of those.

Sister Rio front and center--our District cleaned her house for service

Service Project

Our District taking a much needed break outside Sister Rio's house

Cleaning the inside of Sister Rio's house

We were actually able to go to the temple twice this week haha. We were chatting with some of our part member sisters at church and they said they were going to be endowed on Saturday but that they needed an escort. So we told them we could be their escorts! It was so awesome :) We walked in with them and were with them all day Saturday doing that. Brought me back to when I went through the temple for my first time...such a sweet spirit. And as we were helping the sisters through the endowment...it really was so special. Grateful I was able to do that. Then we went to the temple as a zone earlier today. Temples are definitely one of the best ways to spend your time.

Escorts for these Sisters in the temple :)

Same Sisters we escorted at the temple

Our Zone at the temple yesterday--trip 2 to the temple this week :)

With Sister Tureman at the temple

We also had Zone Conference this week...one takeaway I had was when President Fermanis was talking to us about how "routine is the enemy." He talked about how often times we "get busy with being busy" and I actually found that so true. We shouldn't get caught up in studies, proselyting so much that it becomes our busy...but we need to work on being in the moment and treating everyday differently. Loved that thought. So we have been trying out some new schedule things in the spirit of Zone Conference. We tried it a couple days this week proselyting...also President added to our proselyting hours. I was pumped about it. We've been having fun with that.

President Fermanis--haha like what the heck does that even mean on the board?

Also had a training meeting this week...Loved when we had a section of that for just the trainers. And we talked a lot about how God has "foreknowledge" but doesn't have our whole life mapped out, but he knows us so well that he knows what we are going to choose--that was super awesome!

Our investigators are doing awesome :) We found some newbies and Jon and Jessica are getting ready for their baptism on November 25th. We had a way fun FHE on Saturday with some of our RC's and investigators. We played games and had a lesson about charity. We have such cool investigators.

Anyway...literally didn't breathe for the whole week but I truly love this work. Feel SO SO blessed right now :) missionary work is so awesome.

Love,

Sister Zarbock