Birthday Celebration and Inspiration

Howdy everyone! This week was pretty awesome!! My birthday came around and I'm 19 now!! Kinda weird, because in less than one year now I won't be a teenager anymore.  Kinda scary not gonna lie 😅 anyway I had a super cool experience this week in Browning.  So this is what happened...

The wind was blowing across the town of Browning.  We could hear dogs barking in the distance but we didn't care.  We had a job to do as missionaries.  A job that required our complete and 100% focus.  We had just left a members home who wasn't totally active in the church and we were hoping to maybe get her to come to church that Sunday.  After we left we were at a loss.  We had some time and didn't know what to do with it.  We threw ideas back and forth then finally another less active member popped into my head.  We decided to go with it.  Not knowing what would happen but we had the confidence that the Lord knew what he was doing. 

We walked up to the door and in an act of bravado knocked on the door... we waited... and waited... nothing happened.  We rang the doorbell... we waited again... still no answer.  In a last ditch effort we knocked on the door and after a few seconds started walking back to the car.  As I took those first few steps I wondered why we were here and why the Lord had sent us here.  After a few more steps we heard the door unlock and proceed to open.  We immediately turned around to see if it was the member we were hoping to see.  It wasn't.  But this didn't deter us.  We had been sent to this home for a reason and we needed to talk to this lady.  She invited us inside and started talking to us.  After a while she told us of her struggles in life that she was going through and how scared she was.  The Spirit then took over and allowed us to help this broken woman, who had almost lost hope, feel the love of God again in her life.  Towards the end of our discussion she told us how she felt like we were sent there for her and that God was looking out for her.  We talked about the church and she explained how she wanted her daughter to be baptized into the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  However, her daughter was two years old; so we explained to her about how we do baptisms and what we believe.  She told us that she wanted to become a member of the church as well and that she wanted her child to be blessed into the church and eventually get baptized.  As we were leaving we left her with a copy of the Book of Mormon and some other material for her to read about the church and asked her to come on Sunday.  She told us she would.  As we left the house we now knew why we had been sent there.

This experience has shown me that the spirit doesn't give us impressions just for fun.  He knows more than we possibly could and that if we receive an impression we need to act on it because you never know what could happen.  We also need to be constantly receptive and making sure that we are worthy of having the Holy Ghost in our lives so that we can receive those crucial promptings by the spirit.  "... by the power of the Holy Ghost he may know the truth of all things." (Moroni 10:5) this is how we have questions answered and this is how we can change lives.  Through the Holy Ghost we can have those hard questions of life answered and through the Holy Ghost we can change lives – both those around us and our own.  I've seen the Holy Ghost work in my life to bless others as well as myself, and through the spirit I've had questions answered when I couldn't find an answer on my own.  I know this gospel is true and that it has the power to change anyone's life.  

Love you guys!!

Love,
Elder Zeller

123 1/2 4th Ave Se

Cut Bank, Montana