Week 74 - The one with the pure testimony.

 Friends!!

This week was pretty crazy but the lights are back on and we are finally warm, haha. Yes the lights finally came on in our apartment....Saturday!! It took 8 days but it's ok ;) it definitely was an adventure living out of a suitcase but can't complain!! 

This week we did a lot of service and we found a person through it!! We are working on a follow up lesson so pray for us to have that happen! 

We also had THE COOLEST THING HAPPEN! It tops every teaching and testimony moment on my whole mission. We had zone devotional yesterday and our ZL's talked about always bearing testimony of our Savior Jesus Christ. Well 2 minutes later we did exactly that and it was so amazing...

We had a dinner with this less active family we are trying to reactivate. Their son, Mario was there and he is very in active. After dinner we had a lesson with the whole family and we watched the video and asked what everyone thought. Tomas (dad) thought it was cool that the girl in the video was an atheist and then came back to believing in Christ. Brooke (step mom) liked how she talked about how it was hard and that it was her way of seeking the truth instead of it being this perfectly framed way. We asked Mario what his thoughts on the video were and he said he had nothing and that he was on the complete other side of where we are at. He later explained that he doesn't believe in God or Jesus Christ. But the importance of work and family and being completely reliant on ones self for success. We continued on with the lesson and Mario kept expressing his opinion and then he said that he can't "do faith", in some things he needs plain evidence. He asked us why we believe and have faith. We then bore pure testimony of the existence of God and also the power of Jesus Christ and His Atonement. The spirit was so strong and Mario changed from there.  At the end that he said our testimonies where valuable and that he is considering getting back into the whole religious thing. Starting to doubt his unbelief!!!!!! We invited him to do the same thing as his parents which was to read from the Book of Mormon a few times this week. He said yes!!!! 

So that was amazing in every way. My testimony of Jesus Christ strengthened while I was bearing it. 

Something I learned this week : 

The secret of success is to be ready for opportunity when it comes. 

I love you all, have a wonderful week! 

Love,

Sister Fillmore 

Yay for service opportunities!

Service proselyting in the rain, my favorite! 

Our little suitcase for the week!

The Spanish Hermanas got to sleep over for a night before they went over to redmond.