Oct 23rd

Hey Family!

I'm counting this as a journal entry cause I don't have time for both :(
This week has been one I will NEVER forget! My first full week in the mission field as a full-time missionary. What a wonderful experience! I love being a missionary...it's hard! It is SO hard but I Got This!
This week I, Sister Zubicki, came up with an amazing tracting approach....instead of the "knocking on doors - sharing a message"...Sis Redd and I knock on the door and ask if we can say a prayer with whomever opens the door. As of today (day 2 of the new approach) we have three new investigators!!! Our mission leader met with us today and we told him about our new approach and our success and as his eyes filled with tears he said "sisters I am so proud of you because of the two of you, amazing things are/will happen in our branch."
Today Sis Redd and I had an amazing experience! When we started tracting we approached a house, the first house for the day...Sis Redd knocked and we stood next to each other waiting for the door to open. About ten seconds later the door opened...Sis Redd said "hi we are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and we are in the area going door to door praying for people. Is it okay if we say a prayer for you?" The lady in the door said yes (Her name is K). We folded our arms and said a prayer for her and when the prayer was finished I looked up and K's face was radiating with the light of Christ!!!There I stood speechless...knowing I needed to say something but, what should I say?....I didn't say anything! Sis Redd and I said goodbye and headed to the next house. I said Sis Redd we just missed an opportunity! She said I think you're right :(
We traveled up and down the next street and I kept thinking about K, we walked past her house half an hour later and Sis Redd said should we go back? I stopped in the middle of the street unsure of what we should do. I said a prayer...I needed to know if we should go back....as soon as I asked I got the clearest answer...YES GO BACK! Sis Redd and I knocked again and when K opened the door we said, we felt like we needed to come back...she is now one of our investigators!!!! It was then that I realized that Sis Redd and I needed to come down that street at that time....K was the only house in that entire neighborhood that opened her door and had a prayer with us that day. Our Heavenly Father had prepared her for us...we already had set plans that day and those plans did not involve us tracting anywhere near that area! I'm so grateful for the gospel and the opportunity I have to teach it. I'm grateful for the support and love of all my family and friends. I'm SO grateful for the spirit and the promptings I get.
I miss y'all very much. There are days that are hard and things that are hard (like studying 3 hours a day) :)
But when I meet people like K and get to share the gospel and see the joy that brings them, it gives me such peace and I KNOW that it's ALL worth it!

I love ALL the letters! It makes me SO Happy!
Don't stop sending them! Keep em coming!

Can't wait to see baby sister, I love her already!

XOXO

Sister Z