9.14.15

 This week flew by (like most weeks)! We had a lot of great lessons with Zana. We met with her almost every day, and it was great! She isn't on a baptismal date, and we are kind of bummed about that. She said her husband isn't a fan of the church/her getting baptized. Her kids are awesome though and think she should choose for herself! She also hasn't been reading, but we have gotten her to pray more, which has been great! During a lot of the lessons, we have to rely a lot on Fjorela or Vera, who help us with the lessons. She doesn't always understand us, so they have to help explain things better. On Friday, while we were talking about following commandments, Vera had to leave the lesson. We were so scared, and didn't know how it was going to go. We were both praying a bunch that she would understand us! The lesson seemed to be going well. While I was saying something, she interrupted me and told me that I spoke really well and that she understood! I was so happy! The whole lesson went really well! We were so happy, that as soon as we left her house, we just hugged each other! We were so grateful that she understood us and that our lesson went so well! 

   This week, we have done a lot of tracting. We have been trying to get more investigators, and haven't had much luck. Friday morning, the zone leaders/elders in our ward called and asked how we were doing with finding new investigators. We told them that we hadn't found one yet, but would keep trying. They then said that something they had been doing was street contacting by our center. Then, if anyone was interested and had a couple minutes, they would come inside and have a short lesson with them. They said that they would come with us and street contact that way. So on Saturday, that's what we did. Within 15 minutes of street contacting, the Elders found a family for us! We taught them the restoration, and it went really well! After that, we found a girl that was interested in the church, so we taught her too. Later that day, the Elders gave us a referral of a girl they had talked to while street contacting with us. We called her that night, and met with her the next day. We went from having no new investigators, to having 4 in a 24 hour period!  We were so grateful for their help, and the chance we had to meet with more people. It was a really cool experience! 

   This weekend, we had Stake Conference! We got to see all of the missionaries in our mission, except for the missionaries in Macedonia. But it was really cool to see so many missionaries! Stake Conference itself was really good! On Saturday, we had a choir performance, which was actually really good! They would talk about the restoration, and they we would sing a song that would correspond. A lot of people were there, and it was super good! 

  I think that is it for this week. We didn't have any crazy stories this week, but are just really happy with the work we are putting in and the success we had!

Motra Bennett