Things are great here in the Washington DC South side of the world.
We met the sweetest lady from Jamaica! She is divorced and has one son. They live in a ONE room apartment. Literally. Their
home is the size of our home's living room. There is a small bathroom. She is one of our investigators whom
we hadn't met yet. We came in and asked if we could do her dishes as she
was making dinner for her son and a friend. She gave me the strangest
look after I asked. She didn't answer for a minute, just stared at me. I
couldn't tell if she was shocked, surprised or appalled. Turns out, she
was shocked and after we washed her dishes was grateful. She wanted to
know more about Joseph Smiff, as she calls him, :) and the Book of
Mormon. She is very simple and needs to learn in a very simple way. I
don't think she understands that there is a simple and pure doctrine out
there with all of the truth. She church hops. We have to repeat
ourselves a lot and move slow. But she is so humble and amazing that it
will work. She gave us a cup full of fruit and told us to come over for
dinner the next day and said, "Don't be keepin' my cup. You bring it
back!". She is such a sweetheart and wanted us to come back with the
cup. She has NOTHING and is giving us anything she can. So kind. We are
meeting with them again tonight. Her son said, "I think I'll stick with
this religion". WHAT?! I love it. I am praying for her and doing
everything I can to help them taste the sweet blessings of making
covenants with God through baptism.
We are also meeting with E.
Interesting story here. Her brother, is a recent convert of last year. He just left on his mission
to Brazil this week and he gave us E's number to call her. We did and
she didn't answer, but she called us after her brother was gone. She and
her brother are very close and she wanted to know what he was getting
himself into, and what religion this was. There truly are still people
out there that think we worship Joseph Smith, and think the Book of
Mormon is written by him, some think we have horns, they think we can't
drink pop or wear makeup and that we have to do everything our husbands
and fathers command. Yikes. People need the truth. Anyway, E is so
cute. We are teaching her in a round-about way by saying, "This is what your brother believes and what he will be teaching." She is okay with that for
now. She says what we teach makes sense. It is hard for her to grasp the
concept of 12 Apostles today. She doesn't feel familiar with that.
Which is understandable. But things are going well.
We went tracting this week and I met a witch! Can
you believe it? We introduced ourselves and she said, "Oh that's nice,
but I'm a 'wicken'." I said, "What is that?" I seriously had no idea.
"I'm a witch." I said, "Oh coool!" She was shocked and stuttered on her
speech, "Th-that is not the reaction I expe-pected. I don't believe in
Christ. I thought you would be appalled by that." "Well, what do you
believe in?" "I believe in the elements and as you do good, good is done
unto you." "We believe a similar thing." I could tell she was not
interested but pleased with our reaction. Sister Kraemer is awesome and
handed her a mormon.org card and said, "Well, we also do service, so if you ever need anything, we are here to serve." It was an interesting convo.
I have interviews with President this week. I love President Riggs. He
is amazing. Even though I am not originally from this mission, he still
claims me as "his own". It will be one of the hardest things on my
mission to leave DC south. My other President said to me before I left,
"You better come back to Nauvoo." I promised that I would, but it is
going to be so hard to leave this place.
I love you all.
An investigator told me a quote this week, "A family who prays
together, stays together." and I thought of my own family. I am so glad
we did that. And dad, thank you for holding the Priesthood worthily all
these years. I think that is one of the most powerful things on this
earth except love and the Atonement.
-Sister Zibetti
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