If You Hate Someone, Let the Lord Work His Magic

So what happens when you hate someone and the Lord decides to throw you a curve ball by making that someone your new companion??  That's been my week but I'll get to that in a little bit; just trying to keep things interesting for you guys as you read this, haha.  Now you're going to have to read the whole thing just to understand the first part of my weekly.

Anyway, so this week has been crazy!!  At the beginning of the week I got transfer calls and found out I was going to be transferred, so I spent Monday and Tuesday visiting people I wanted to say goodbye to.  I left a lot of family behind in Corvallis, but it's all good because I'm coming back!!  So that'll be good.  But I said goodbye to a lot of people like investigators we have that I've gotten super close to like Mitch, Rich and Maeci, and the Golds.  

It was pretty rough because I've gotten so close to a ton of people!!  They're family in my mind, they really are.  So that was really tough.  I also said goodbye to some of the members I've gotten close to. 

Like the Reynosos and the Jessops (yeah I know which ones? 😂) but it's so cool to have been able to have met these people.  I'm going to miss all of them especially the ones who really made it that much better, like Morgan Reynoso.  She was honestly like a second mom to me.  Joe Jessop changed my mission and my life for good, just because he saw something in me I didn't see myself.  So much change came because of my time in Corvallis.  I feel like I grew stronger and stronger as a missionary and in my faith.  My time in Corvallis has made me into the person I am now.  So yeah saying goodbye was tough.  But like I told everyone I could, it's not like I'm dying!! I'm going to be back and that's a promise!!  

Wednesday we shoved off and I went to my new area.  So we got to Helena and I got to see a lot of missionaries I haven't seen for a while, which was awesome!!  Then we got in the back of the zone leaders truck... 

which was pretty dang small but it's all good we just kind of did our thing and drove down, and talked about the area and all that.  Then we got there and I got to see the man, the myth, the legend Elder Tricky Trae Patterson himself!!  That was a reunion that was long overdue!!  It was so good to see him!!  We talked for a bit then we went down to our area.  Once we got there we didn’t have a phone at first... then our area Book (which we rely on as missionaries) and lds tools (which we rely on as well) wouldn't update and it said we were still in our last areas. Because of this we didn't have any way of contacting people, and we didn't know anyone to contact.  We literally were starting fresh which was a crazy place to be!!  So we did our best and tracked down a phone and a few numbers.  Then on Friday we had interviews with our mission president and that was awesome!!  We talked a bit about stuff.  Then the next day we went to Belgrade for a baptism that Elder Christensen got permission to go to, so we went and said hi to a lot of people there and it was pretty fun!!  

Then on Sunday we went down to Lima which is a tiny town that's close to Rexburg to get to our stake center.  We could have driven to BYUI faster than we could have driven to our stake center, which was crazy.  Then that night we had a convert fireside and it was really awesome and really powerful.  At the fireside all these recent converts got up and bore their testimonies on how they came to know that the church was true and it was so sick!!  I loved it a lot!!  And then we went home after that.

Alright so now you're all probably wondering what about your companion!?! Well I'll tell ya… I found out I was going to be with Elder Christensen and the first thing I thought of was, "this is going to be the trial of my mission." and “I'm going to have a rough time with this”.  So I emailed the Mission President and I told him that I was going to do it and I would be companions with him, but I had to know what he was thinking??  This was literally the only missionary I had a problem with.  He emailed me back and called me out.  He basically told me not to be prideful... so that kind of shook me up a bit because I've never seen myself as a prideful person.  But I thought about it and decided that this missionary is getting a clean slate and as far as I know this is the first time I'm meeting Elder Christensen. So I met up with him and two hours... two hours is all it took.  All the hate from months on months quickly changed into love.  No joke, this companion is awesome.  I've learned so much from just the past few days and I'm so excited to continue learning.  

The moral of the story is, don't judge anyone.  And if you hate someone, let the Lord work His magic and see what He can do.  If He can turn months of hate into love towards someone anything is possible.  I never would have thought I would love this guy.  He can do so much in our lives if we just let it happen!!  Remember that everyone!!

I love ya!!  Have a wonderful and a blessed day!!

P.S. Our apartment is like super tiny and we can barely stand up in some places.  So we got the bright idea to do a handstand and take a picture and then flip it so it looks like we are walking on the ceiling.  So the first one was pretty good.  No complaints.  But we decide to flip me around and he takes off his sweater for the next picture.  Well what happens is I go up and my arm tweeks a bit and then my back goes through the wall and I fall on my head 😂 so yeah, basically I'm an idiot 😅

Love,

Elder Zeller

750 N Montana St

Dillon, MT