Wow this week has been absolutely crazy and I have collapsed into bed at the end of the day almost every night. The work is going amazing and Florida is still sunny as always.
So right now instead of telling you all about my amazing investigator in bits and pieces I just want to tell you a little about Breanna. For starters she is getting baptized this Saturday (December 19th)! We are so excited for her and she truly has been prepared. Her friend Jessica was baptized in September and after she was baptized she decided to start sharing what she learned with her best friend. When we teach Breanna she already knows everything we are going to talk about and actually teaches us. She is truly amazing and so excited to be baptized. The coolest thing is she is coming from a Jehovah's Witness family and she has always thought that a few of their teachings were weird but when she started attending our church with Jessica she just felt that everything was right and complete and just made sense. Breanna is truly amazing and I cannot wait for her baptism!!
December 7: We had a zone activity and it was so cool to see everyone in my zone and get to hang out with a lot of amazing missionaries and just have a fun time with them.
December 8: We helped someone move today and it was awesome getting to do service. Funny story though the guy we helped move is cousins with a girl I went to Junior High and High School with so it was awesome to talk with someone about where I live and knew exactly what I was talking about. We also met Nick and Brendan who are living at a drug recovery house (accidently knocked that...oops). It was amazing as we were talking to them Nick wasn't paying attention as we started but as we said the prayer and testified that God truly loved him, cared for him, and wanted to help and strengthen him; he had this light come about him. As we left he had this look on his face like he didn't want us to leave and he just wanted to talk with us all night. It was amazing because I know that is truly what Nick needed because he was struggling overcoming his addictions and now he knows God will help him.
December 9: We got to help a less active who was struggling today. It truly was amazing because this girl was baptized just over a year ago and has since become in active. Turns out that she was having a hard time with the world's treatment of homosexuals because her brother is one. She finds it so sad that people aren't tolerant and love everyone even though God tells us to love everyone. We got to truly help her realize God loves everyone and that as she turned to God he would truly help her and help protect her brother.
December 10: While we were knocking today we had a guy tell us we had to leave. We are pretty used to this and get a lot of reasons (mostly that it is no soliciting), but his reason was the best I have ever heard. He told us how this was little Italy and if we knocked on his neighbor's door the neighbor would call the cops (classic response). And then he told us we weren't getting it, we were in little Italy and that is where the Italian Mafia was and he didn't want us to knock on his neighbor's door because he would call the cops and have us arrested and he didn't want to see us in jail for the night eating bologna sandwiches. Everyone we talked to was super nice though.
December 11: We met with the coolest less active today. Her name is Summer and she has an amazing family and they want to take us on a safari ride to see lions, and tigers, and bears oh my! No really there is this safari a little north of us that you can drive through and I guess it has lions and other cool animals and they want to take us one of these p-days so hopefully that will happen. We also went and taught our investigator Nic. It was heart breaking talking with him today because he doesn't believe God is there and that he is loved, in fact he believes he is broken and that no one should love him.
December 12: Today we helped out our stake Live Nativity. It was awesome we had real camels, sheep, goat, and donkeys. The missionaries got to help out a whole ton and there were 1,600 people who came out to the event and it was truly amazing! Such a great effort and a lot of people in South Florida now know what a Mormon church looks like, that we believe in Christ, and that we are not totally weird. It was super cool with choirs throughout the community and nativity sets from around the world.
December 13: NIC CAME TO CHURCH!! It took a lot of effort on ours and God's part to get him here but he came. Nic had a lot of depression yesterday and when we knocked on his door this morning he didn't want to leave his house but we made him and he was very grateful that we had. We also got to teach John finally! He has been coming to church for a while and we just haven't been able to meet with him until now and he is going to be baptized in a few weeks which is so cool.
This truly was a week of miracles and I know that God truly loves each and every one of us.
Happy Holidays,
Sister Jennings
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