Mustard Seed Faith

Bonjour!

This past week we have seen several MIRACLES! 

Despite the cold weather (yes winter is dragging on and it's unpleasant), we were out a lot this past week, because we didn't have anyone to teach. 

Tuesday night we were out and we talked with three different people that said we could come back, so we set it up for Thursday.

Wednesday, we had Zone Conference! So refreshing! We talked about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and sacrifice. We reviewed how to to teach people how to fish (meaning how to find answers in the Book of Mormon or other scriptures on their own), and how to expose the syrup! [Grandpa's elucidation: they had "compared missionary work to the process of making maple syrup".] Aka how to ask questions and listen to others' needs.

Following Zone Conference, we had exchanges with the Travelling Sisters until Thursday night! 

Exchange with Sister Hall - She and I were both trained by Sister Young!!!

It's an unspoken fact that there are exchange miracles, so of course, there were a bunch of miracles! I will try to explain all in summary form.

• Before getting out of the car to go tracting Wednesday night, I prayed that we would find someone that would be interested and that we could set up a return appointment with. We get out, and first house we knock on exactly that happens! 

• Wednesday morning we went on a referral scavenger hunt! We would knock on a door and they would tell us of someone down the street, or a block over that would be interested in what we were sharing, so we would go to them, they would give us a name as well, and so it went on!

• The talk I had picked while reading ahead of time two weeks ago, was exactly what I needed to read for the exchange!

• We were able to talk to all three of the people we met Thursday, Thursday night! We will also be in contact with two of them in the coming week!

• We went tracting Thursday, and the first house lets us in from the cold–I told myself that morning that someone would let us in!

• Last door we knocked at Thursday night,  the man lets us in and we start talking about the Book of Mormon with him, and he was really interested in it! It was really cool (miraculous!) because his wife who was in the Philippines would have yelled at us at the door apparently...

• We shared stories when back at the apartment Thursday night, and the other Sisters tell us of a family who let them in and they want us to come back to teach their family more about being a child of God and His great plan for us, and have an appointment set up! 

We also had a District Lunch for District unity!

I loved President Ballard's words from Conference:

"If we have faith as small as a mustard seed, the Lord can help us remove the mountains of discouragement and doubt in the tasks ahead of us as we serve with God’s children, including family members, Church members, and those who are not yet members of the Church.

"Brothers and sisters, life can be filled with faith, joy, happiness, hope, and love when we exercise the smallest amount of real faith in Christ—even a mustard seed of faith."

I know as we pray for specific things with sincere faith, Heavenly Father will grant them to us when the time is right!

Lots of love!

Sister Tatjana Zumbach