Week of w-w-walkin & Conversion

This week was pretty fun!  We wanted to have a week where we found new investigators. We have been working on our teaching pool but it is so hard. So many people drop us.  I think we had like 5 semi-investigators tell us that they didn't want us to teach them anymore.  So we said "to heck with our teaching pool" and we started walking more.

On Monday we walked. and walked. and walked. and knocked. and testified. and walked a little bit more.  Turns out God didn't have too many people he wanted us to find that day . . .  But guess what, we had TONS OF FUN!  Me and my companion got to know each other way better, we had awesome conversations, and we both became better missionaries. We were hard core anti-Mormon rejected all week.  I think we had more anti-Mormon conversations than normal conversations, but it was okay because we worked hard and built the area.

H IS STILL PROGRESSING and she will probably be baptized soon! We are really excited!

We are teaching Brother M, and the missionaries have been teaching him for ages.  We have had powerful lessons with him. He came to church three weeks ago when we showed up on his front porch with a waffle and a smile.  Then he didn't come for two weeks, but guess what HE CAME YESTERDAY!  He has been messaging us and telling us how awesome we are for helping him.

We are also teaching J. He has had a hard week, and we had one of those lessons where everyone is in tears by the end.  J is about our age and it has been incredible to feel how much Heavenly Father loves him! Anyway HE CAME TO CHURCH TOO!  He may have stepped outside to smoke between second and third hour but hey- he wasn't doing crack so that's  progress! 

We did end up finding this one guy- turns out he remembers Sister Similai ( my trainer). Anyway he knows like a TON about the church because he is Native American, and how he finds it so fascinating that the church does what it does. Then he started talking about the rest of his family and how his cousin Johnny almost became Mormon. Then he started talking about he and Johnny's band... well it turns out, his cousin is Johnny Depp.  Yep. That. Was. Awesome. He told us that he calls him all the time and how he thinks he is going through a mid-life crisis because he joined a band again. SO COOL! I love California!

I've thought a lot about conversion this week.  How do I help others in their conversion?  What destroys a testimony- what enhances conversion- how do you know when you are converted- what does it mean to be converted...  I think that conversion is a lifelong process.  There is nothing set in conversion.  Even the people who you would consider to be the strongest are never strong enough.  We are SO WEAK in the flesh.  Sadly without the Savior- we are much weaker than Satan. He has had millennia of experience and study.  He is more an expert in the field of deception than any mortal can be in any field of study. If you are not feeding your testimony every single day, it is possible to lose it quickly in the world we live in..  Satan isn't just putting anti-Mormon stuff every here and there - he is hurdling it from every corner he possibly can.  If you are not ready, if your armor is weak, then you'd better make changes and become strong again.  It is so clear to me that now is the time where the wheat and the tares are separating.  I feel an urgency to strengthen my own armor and then help others.

Anyway- I hope you have a good week!

Love, Jess

I love Wednesday Zone Meetings . . . 

OK - maybe I love lunch with Grandma & Grandpa MORE!!