We were all
bundled up after our dinner appointment ready to walk home and the members
thought it was hilarious...IT WAS SO COLD THOUGH! The member was awesome and
gave us a ride home though ha-ha
Hello everyone!
This was a long, awesome, exhausting
week ha-ha
Tuesday we had trade offs with our
Sister Training Leaders and I got to stay in St. Augustine with Sister Caton
and my two companions went up to St. John's with Sister Colson. I was super
excited because Sister Caton is from Albuquerque NM!!! We talked all day about
tumbleweeds, turquoise, and skin walkers and it was awesome! That night we had
our ward Relief Society Social and the theme was Christmas around the world.
Our relief society president somehow convinced us to help her with her table
and had us dress up as Dutch people. I felt very connected to my heritage ha-ha!
The costumes were pretty great and it was fun to spend some time with our ward
members!! They are seriously the best
Our relief
society prez served her mission in Holland so she had us all decked out ha-ha
the wooden shoes were the best
Tuesday we also found out that we
were being put into a car share with the sisters in the other ward in St.
Augustine...which means that instead of having our own car like we used to we
share with them and have the car about 3 1/2 days a week. The rest of the days
we are either biking or walking. This isn't that bad (I was anticipating this
on my mission) except in St. Augustine they don't believe in side walks or
street lights...and all of the roads are super narrow and go off into retention
ditches on the sides...so there's no room for us to safely bike...which means a
LOT of walking for us. We've been carless since Thursday and we averaged
walking about 7-10miles everyday. It's been hard adjusting to that but it's
still fun! We get to talk to people that are out walking and we spend a lot of
time talking and singing Christmas songs so it makes the time go by fast! When
you first become a missionary there's this little booklet that you have to read
everyday called "adjusting to missionary life". It teaches you how to
deal with homesickness, loneliness, stress etc. So we've been joking that we
are in the adjusting to car share life phase of our missions’ ha-ha! But it's
okay we love though things!!
We were trackting
on our trade off and I was like "Oh my gosh...Sister Caton.... there’s a
kokopeli!!!!" We freaked out because that's basically the symbol for New
Mexico lol so of course we had to knock that house. We walked up to the door
and they had a wreath with dried green chilies on them. So basically 100% they
are from NM. No one answered so we will have to try again sometime ha-ha
Thursday we had our mission Christmas
party and it was so fun!!! I got to see all my friends and we all did funny
skits and ate food and had a devotional and it was just a great time. All the
zones were supposed to prepare a 10min skit for everyone and for ours we did
American Idol style auditions for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert.
I might be biased but our skit was totally the funniest.
At the Christmas party I got to see sister f and
our favorite senior couple the Bookers!!! We stayed with them when we were
evacuated to Gainesville for the Hurricane! It was so fun to see everyone
Saturday night we drove down to
Palatka to do caroling as a zone! We weren't really given any background
information before hand, just an address and what time we were supposed to be
there. We figured we would just stand downtown or something and sing but when
we got there we realized we were part of this big production. We were at the
state park and they had this pathway with like 8 different groups of carolers
spaced out on the path and the people would ride through on these trailers and
they would stop and we would sing and then they would keep driving. It was way
cool! We were there caroling for like 5 hours and it was really cold outside so
we were dead by the end. It was really fun to be all together as a zone though
and singing about Christmas and Jesus!! It was awesome
Wednesday we
went and juiced with sister Lusk. She knows my love for fruits and veggies and
all things healthy, and knows how rarely we get food like that in the south
lol, so she always spoils me. We juiced cucumbers, beats, carrots, pineapple,
and kale and she sent me home with a huge mason jar full of juice. On Sunday
she came up to me and said "I brought two more jars of juice for you.
They're in the kitchen" My heart hurt I was so happy ha-ha! My mom would
be so proud
We had an amazing lesson with Bongani
this week!! It's been awhile since we've really been able to work with him so
y'all might not remember him but we finally got back into a regular teaching
schedule with him and we've seen MIRACLES!! We were teaching him last night and
we took the other sisters with us. We were able to all bear our testimonies on
the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked a lot about Prophets
and Joseph Smith and Bongani said he's been reading the Book of Mormon and
praying about it and said it's finally starting to make sense to him and he
feels it's true. He is so elect and I get so hyped every time we teach him!!
With everything that's been happening the last few weeks I've been really
stressing out and frustrated.... but we taught one lesson and it turned
everything around! I LOVE THAT ABOUT MISSIONARY WORK! It's so hard but so
rewarding!!
I got a
package from home this week that had the cutest little tree with ornaments and
lights and a little nativity!! It makes my studies way more festive
Tomorrow we are driving up to
Jacksonville to drop off Sister Sheffield at the mission home so she can fly
home on Wednesday! I'm sad to see her go but it'll be good too. Its crazy to
see someone at the end of her 18months with literally only days left and then
compare it to me out barely 4 months. It makes you realize how fast it goes
by!! Mission time is weird where days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days
but I'm trying to appreciate it all ha-ha
We made cake with a lady in our ward for service and we had homemade whip cream with it. yummy!!!!!
I hope y'all have taken the opportunity
to watch the #LIGHTtheWORLD video. If not go watch it!!! We share it with
people at least 5 times a day and I love it every single time. I love the
opportunity I have to serve my Savior and strive to be more like him! I hope we
can all work on that this Christmas season
I love y'all so much!!! Have a
blessed week!
xoxo
Sister Morrow
-Weekly Moss Moment
The moss didn't get me this week
until Sunday night. I was so close to making it a whole week moss free. While
we were teaching Bongani we were at a really serious part of the lesson and I
was in the middle of sharing my testimony when all of a sudden I heard this
really loud scary sound (if you know me at all you know I jump at any loud ish
sound ha-ha). So I jumped and was like "Ah!!! What was that?!" ... it
turns out it was just one of those automatic air fresheners that sprays like
every 20min or whatever ha-ha super scary. Sometimes missionaries lose it
during lessons. Almost always it has to do with the dang moss!!
Selfies with Sister F and our mission president’s wife Sister Lee! She's the sweetest lady and I love her SO MUCH!
Riding with some missionaries into the park for caroling. We were the last group so we had to ride pretty far into the park. It looked like we were in real world jurassic park
My fav organization
High quality pics of our zone caroling. We don't have flash on our iPads so an elder took this picture holding up a flashlight next to
his iPad hahaha
