Hello
everyone!!
I know I say this
in every email...but seriously how is it Monday again?? I blink and a whole
week passes haha
We had an AMAZING
week here in St. Augustine!! We are teaching so many people right now and it
makes for crazy days but it's still super fun!
If y'all remember
Robert from last week...we had some crazy miracles with him this week!! We
taught him twice and both times he told us that he had felt the things we
taught were true, but that he wanted to come to church before making any
commitments...well he came to church yesterday! And he loved it!!! After the
meeting we were talking to him and he said; "now I am certain this is
right. I have no questions" WOW! He has so much faith it's crazy!! He had
to make a lot of sacrifices to be able to come yesterday but he just did what
he had to and was so happy and excited to be there
The next miracle
happened with James. He is very shy and reserved, and it took him about a month
to open up to us. He had told us before that he knew he needed to be baptized
but he wanted to take things slow so he felt completely ready. We missionaries
love to give people the little (or big) push they need so in our lesson with
him this week we asked if we could set a date for his baptism. He was a little
hesitant but we promised he would be ready by November 26. We asked if he would
say the closing prayer for the lesson, and if we would ask in his prayer if it
was the date he should be baptized. We've never been able to get him to pray
before, he always says he's too shy, but we kept encouraging him and after like
30 min of going back and forth.... He did it!! After the prayer he said he felt
so at peace and ready to take this next step in life. We got in the car after
the lesson and just started like screaming and jumping up and down hahaha he is
SO AMAZING! And we have seen him grow so much in the short time we have been
teaching him! When we first met him he told us there was no way he would ever
be able to come to church and just didn't seem interested and now he is so
eager to do what the Lord wants him to do. I seriously look up to my
investigators so much. They all have so much faith it's amazing!!
Door knocking aesthetic pt.2
One more quick
story about an investigator named Jackie. We gave her a Book of Mormon and we
came back this week to have a real sit down lesson. As we were sitting down
before we started the lesson we asked her how her reading was going. She just
picked up her book and said, "I think I got up to 1 Nephi 10”..... YALL THAT’S
SO AMAZING!! She read 10 chapters in like 4 days, which is like unheard of for
missionaries!! She said she feels it's scripture just like the Bible and she
will be coming to church next week. Again...SO MUCH FAITH!! Missionaries can
only do so much...the only way to really know if our message is true is to read
the book and she is and it's working. The Holy Ghost is the most important part
of missionary work. It's so amazing!!
We are teaching so
many more amazing people but I don't want to make this email like 10pages long
so I'll just update y'all on them more next week :)
We were at Panera
using the wifi and doing some quick stuff on our iPads before heading home for
the night. We had been running around all day and forgot to take time to eat
dinner. As we were sitting there this guy came up and asked if we had eaten and
offered to buy us food. He was super sweet and from SLC but was in town for
business. Sister f got a bagel and I got kids mac n cheese. He also got us a
gift card, which was awesome. I wanted to cry. Heavenly Father takes care of us
So, one funny thing
that happened this week. We decided one night that we didn't like the way our
apartment was set up, elders used to live here so it still looked like a boys
apartment lol so we completely rearranged it. We had a random couch in the
kitchen we put back in the living room, moved bookshelves, and hung up
pictures. We just wanted to make it homier. After we finished we were sitting
in our new and improved living room and felt like it was missing something. We
decided our goal was to find a table we could put in there next to the
couch. We have like no money as missionaries so as we were driving around for
the next few days we would look on the side of the road and stuff to see if we
could find anything. No luck. So one night we were driving back from the church
pretty late and we went to drop off some garbage at the dumpster at our
apartment complex before heading home for the night.... and there sitting right
next to the dumpster was a super cute table. Sister f ventured off to get it
and balanced it between our car and bike rack and we drove it home. After
cleaning it extensively with bleach we put it in the living room and it was
perfect. We thought it was hilarious and totally worth it... hopefully we don't
die from some disease on the table or something...I'll keep y'all posted lol
Well I think those
are all the highlights. I love tough things and I LOVE being a missionary
I love y'all so
much!!
Have a blessed week
<33
xoxo
Sister morrow
-Weekly moss moment
Sunday morning I
woke up and looked at the clock on my desk and saw that it said 6:45am. We
normally get up every morning at 6:30 and so I was like scrambling thinking I
slept in! I was also super confused as to why my alarm didn't go off and didn't
know why sister f was still asleep. I figured she must have been sick or was
feeling extra disobedient (haha just kidding) so I just took my stuff to the
bathroom and went to get ready for church. She came in about an hour later and
reminded me that it was daylight savings. I missed out on the extra hour of
sleep which was a bummer...dang moss!! Maybe I'll remember next year haha