Wedding crashers!!
With Sister P, Terralyn, Nauvoo, and Abinadi!! They're the cutest kids
ever
Hello Everyone! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
This was an awesome and crazy week
per usual. We didn't have the car at all this week(RIP) so we biked all day
everyday. Like 10-15miles a day. Which isn't too bad but still. The weather was
cooler than normal so it was perfect for biking! And we burned off all the
fudge the members gave us so it wasn't too bad. Plus we've been sleeping really
good at night
What if Santa got
baptized? He would get the ho-ho-Holy Ghost (hehe get it?)
On Tuesday we had just finished with
our district Meeting when one of our ward members called and told us she had
just had surgery and wanted us to come visit her. We took the shores sisters
with us and headed over to the Hospital to see her. She has a deaf son that was
there with two of his deaf friends and we were able to have a really powerful
lesson with them in ASL. We shared some scriptures of comfort and the spirit
was so strong. It was such a cool experience and I always love getting to
practice signing!
Wednesday we had some awesome
miracles! We went and contacted this man named David that we met in the parking
lot of his apartment complex on Christmas Eve. We went for the lesson and he
was very accepting! He has an adorable daughter and he said he really wants to
find a church so he can raise his daughter with that and so she can get
baptized! He accepted a BoM and we set up a time to come back this upcoming
week! It was awesome! After his lesson we went to try and contact a referral
from the Elders that lives in the same complex. We knocked on the door but the
person wasn't home and his cousin answered the door. She was super sweet and I
asked if she would be interested in learning more. She let us right in and
started talking to us. Her name is Ramona and she just moved here a few months
ago to start college. She said she has been praying to find good Christian
friends since she moved here so she was SO excited to talk with us. We started
talking to her a bit about what we believe and she told us that the past few
weeks she's been having dreams about getting baptized. She said she really
feels it's what God wants her to do and she is willing to do anything to follow
His will for her. We were like jumping up and down in our seats we were so
excited lol she is GOLDEN! We set up a time to come see her again and we are so
excited about her! It was a total miracle
Nauvoo wrote me a
note :,) Morrow is awesome lol
On Friday we did some service helping
a member in the other ward decorate the church for a wedding reception! We did
a lot of ironing, chopping onions, blowing up balloons, and arranging center
pieces! It was fun even if it was stressful at times haha! We got to stay for
the beginning of the reception and eat dinner and talk with some members! It
was really fun! The best part was playing with these two adorable deaf kids
from the other ward, Nauvoo and Abinadi. We sat at the kids table and drew
pictures with them and practiced signing it was awesome
Missionary life in
a picture. We went and got lunch as a district but the elders were out of money
for the month so they whipped out a loaf of bread and some pb&j. We eat at
this restaurant like every week so the owner knows all the missionaries. He thought
it was funny and brought them out water and plates to put their sandwiches on
hahaha
NEW YEARS EVE! We started the day off
knocking some doors. We were walking and we saw a sign for live blue crabs. I
wanted to check them out so we walked up to the stand and the guy was like oh
no I'm deaf....and I was like hey I'm learning ASL! So I told him my name and
asked for crabs. He said they were out so I said thanks and we left. SERIOUS
MOSS MOMENT! I was so focused on the dang crabs I didn't even ask him for his
name or address or anything so we could try to teach him. We were walking back
and I was like beating myself up the whole time for not talking with him more.
We walked up to a house a few blocks down and I saw that they had a deaf
doorbell and I got really excited! This sweet old lady came out and told us she
was deaf and we had a convo a little like this...."oh no sorry I'm
deaf"...."oh that's okay I'm learning Sign Language! How are
you?"...."I'm fine. How are you?"...."I'm awesome!! What's
your name?"...."Doris. Are you Jehovahs Witnesses?"...."No
we are from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints!"...."Ohhhh okay. That's a really long name" hahahaha it
was awesome! I told her we had friends that knew more ASL and asked if they
could come see her sometime and teach her. She said that would be fine and
wrote down her name and address for us. IT WAS SO AWESOME! Totally made up for
the dang crab man! Hopefully we get to go see her again because she was so
sweet! So many deaf miracles this week! After we finished with the rest of our
lessons for the day we headed as a district to a families house from the other
ward named the Collins! They fed us all dinner and then we played some
missionary approved games. We played mormon charades which was really hard
hahaha and a few others. We headed home at 9pm and were asleep by 10:30 it was
quite the party!
HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRR!!
Yesterday we went over to a members
house and had a traditional southern New Years meal. They had collard greens
for wealth, black eyed peas for wealth, and pot roast. It was my first time
eating collard greens since I've been here and they were actually pretty good
haha! We sat and talked and played a quick game before they brought us home! It
was really fun! The members take such good care of us here!
As I've been thinking about the new
year and setting goals I thought of one of my all time favorite
scriptures
John 17:3 This is life eternal, that
they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent
It's easy to base our goals or
resolutions on material things(that's what I normally do) like working out more
or getting more sleep haha but this year I want to focus my goals on
developing my relationship with my Savior. It's not always easy but I know as
we come closer to Him and keep the commandments we will be able to face
whatever challenges come our way in 2017!
I love y'all so much! Have a blessed
week <3
xoxo
Sister Morrow
-Weekly Moss Moment
Sunday evening we had the privilege of having a 20min long phone call
with one of the mossiest people I have ever met. We were calling some formers
when we got to this man named Ralph. Sister Tryon had the phone and the
conversation started out somewhat normal, but then he started asking us all
these weird questions about lizards and how our church started and she didn't
know how to handle him so she passed me the phone. He started asking me the
same weird questions and I tried to handle them as calmly as I could. The
questions started getting really weird and personal and I kept trying to direct
the conversation back to church things. He was getting really creepy and asking
me where I lived and what my full name was and so I made up a name(lol). I
don't even know how to describe the encounter so here are some of the top
quotes "It's all about money my darling" "I'm a very
attractive 38 year old man. I'm a very successful chef. I mean I'm really
attractive. I'm quite the catch" "if you saw a dead possum on the
road or a dead body which would you try to save? See I would save the
possum" "I need you to google some facts for me before you come and
see me. Okay first...I need you to look up the lizard." "Y'all really
should come visit me. I promise I'm not creepy. I won't tie you up and throw
you in the ditch in my back yard." If they have to tell you they aren't
creepy...they're creepy. We sent him over to the Elders and figured we'd let
them handle it hahaha! Sometimes the moss just makes you really really really
weird.