So the past few days have been a little rough, but that's okay! We were able to street contact 24 people and some of them we gave our phone number to on a Mormon.org card and some said we could come back to visit! A lot of what we have done in the past few days has been setting up lessons for this week, which is great for this week, but our numbers were pretty low. On Wednesday we were able to go to the Phoenix temple open house with Travis and Katie, and Irlanda and some of her friends so that was exciting! Other than the fact that we got home almost at 11....it was super packed and took a while to go through all of the lines! But, we had a good time and I think those that came had a good time as well! On Thursday night we were able to meet with Jennifer and she got a comfort blessing from our Elders, and before she got the blessing she was talking to us about how she was hoping to come to church on Sunday and that she wanted to go back to our employment center for some help. She just opened up a lot with us, and she hasn't been friendly towards the church in a long time, so it was really neat to see her open up and we have a lesson with her tomorrow night! Also, we did hear from our missing recent convert, we just know that she is okay thus far, no one knows where she is at right now but she did call some of her family members so that was a good thing this weekend! We were also able to set up a return appointment with a less-active member that we have been meaning to go see for a while, so that was pretty exciting! Then Friday we went to our ward party which was pretty exciting there were tons of people there! We had to leave early though, because we got to go do a session at the Mesa temple!! It was soooo exciting to be able to do almost an extra session on our mission! It was a great way to end the day! Then Saturday was a little hard, Travis and Katie didn't show up to our lesson where we were going to teach them the 15-step stop smoking program, so that was a bummer, then Katie said that Travis doesn't think he wants to be baptized anymore. So, we lost our one investigator, but we are hoping to maybe be able to keep visiting Katie because she still wants to come to church! We were also able to teach a little boy who is going to be baptized in a couple weeks, so that was a fun lesson to teach! I love his family, they are great members! Then Sunday was so good. We had a state conference that was broadcast from Salt Lake. Elder Foster, Elder Christofferson, Sister McConkie, and President Uchtdorf all spoke. They focused on remembering the eternal perspective in all things, especially in the trials that we face. It was just really good, and we were able to participate in the choir and we sang "Let Us All Press On", the version that was performed in this April's general conference, it was SO fun to participate in that! Then we were able to contact a less-active that we have been trying to see since I got here and we have a return appointment with her on Wednesday! It's been a good weekend all in all, it's just been a little hard as well. I guess I include that to let y'all know that missions are great, but we do go through a lot to stay out here, and it's because we love our Savior, Jesus Christ and believe that our message with bring happiness and joy that they have never experienced before. I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Zimmerman
Selfie time! I actually did my hair on Sunday! ;) And yes, that pink thing on my bag is pepper spray! I'm ready to protect myself! ;)
Phoenix Temple
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