I have a love hate relationship with
these rainy days we've been having. I guess it's better than being boiling hot
like usual
Hello Everyone! This week it got
COLD! It rained almost everyday and was just dreary and overcast...it even
dropped to the 30's which I know is like nothing compared to home but still. I
was freezing!! This week we have some big changes happening in the FJM!
We had our transfer call and Sister
Tryon and I are BOTH getting transferred. Even more crazy is they aren't
replacing us with sisters. They are making it an Elders area. So there will be
4 Elders serving in our ward. It's pretty weird ha-ha but we lost a lot of
sisters this last transfer and only 3 came in so they had to close a lot of
sisters areas :( hopefully they open SA back up to sisters soon. We had a crazy
night leading up to the call but more on that later ha-ha
We went to this really cute street on pday!!! (Not really. Sister Tryon just got a new calendar hehe)
So on Wednesday I'll be headed to
Arlington, which is East Jacksonville. I don't know anything about it other
than where it is (kind of) so I'm excited for the change. One exciting thing is
the sisters in the other ward just had a baptism with a girl they were teaching
that lives in Arlington! She's deaf so they have Skype lessons with her and
sign. There's no one in that ward that knows it so I'll be able to sign with
her and help her during church to understand what's happening. I've been
studying my sign language books like crazy ha-ha I have a lot to learn but I'm
excited for the extra practice! I'm sad to say goodbye to St. Augustine! I
seriously love the ward members and investigators and I'm going to miss them a
lot. We had several members tell us they were so sad to see us go that they
were going to write some complaint letters to the mission office hahahaha it
was sweet :,)
A member gave us Chili's gift cards and we cried we were so excited.
We had some serious miracles this
week! As a mission our goal for 2017 is to find people one by one. Focusing on
the individual rather than a numeric goal for baptism. It's really awesome and
after we started working on this we found 3 new investigators in one day!! It
was crazy and awesome! Our mission president also introduced a new schedule for
us to follow everyday, which is AWESOME. We do our planning in the morning now,
which means we can go to sleep as early as 9:30pm(bless) and pday starts at 8am
instead of 10am. We also have adjusted study and proselyting schedules, which
I've loved so far. It just has made life so much easier and it's been awesome.
President Lee is so inspired.
Saturday a boy in a part-member
family got baptized! It was awesome and our investigator John came to the
baptism!! He's southern Baptist so the whole baptism he kept saying amen really
loud and like mhmming everything. It was so awesome hahaha! At one point of the
baptism they opened it up for people to share their testimonies. He leaned over
and asked me if he could get up and say something and not knowing what to
expect I said sure! He got up and talked for a few minutes about how he found
God and how he was so glad he got to be at the baptism and see someone taking
that step so early in their life. I was terrified the whole time he was going
to go on this long rant but it ended up being a really sweet testimony and it
was really neat.
We were visiting a less active in the
Elders area and came out to this note on our car. They tried to deny it but I
said we knew it was them because they spelled watching wrong hahaha
We've been doing lots of packing, cleaning,
and taking down decorations to prepare our apartment for the new Elders. I've
been a little down about leaving and resistant to change. Despite all the
moping and groaning I realize how much I'm going to learn and grow in my new
area. I'm thankful for the opportunity that I have to place my life in Gods
hands for these 18months. I don't always have it all together or know exactly
what's going on but that's okay. I just have to trust that someone knows better
than I do and try my best to be the missionary Heavenly Father needs me to be.
It made me think of this quote, and I'm sorry if I've already sent it home but
it's just awesome
"The purpose of faith is not to
change God’s will but to empower us to act on God’s will. Faith is trust--trust
that God sees what we cannot and that He knows what we do not." -Dieter F
Uchtdorf
I love y'all! I hope you have a
blessed week!!
xoxo
Sister Morrow
It's a tradition to go get ice cream
as sisters on the night of the transfer call. It was freezing outside and we
were way too cold for ice cream but you can't break tradition!!
-Weekly Moss Moment
In our mission for transfers we have
a conference call with all the missionaries and President goes through each
area and says who's serving there. The call always starts at 9pm. We got home a
few minute early so we could change and be on the call right when it started.
It was 9:07 and we hadn't heard anything yet...so we texted the other sisters
asking what was up and they said their call was working fine and President had
already started talking. We were freaking out. Listening to the transfer call
is like equivalent to finding out who won the bachelorette in missionary world.
So we did a million things to try and fix our phone and it still wasn't
working. By this point it's like 9:08 lol so we decide the most logical thing
would be to drive across town to the other sisters apartment to catch the rest
of the call. We ran out of the apartment in our PJ's and fuzzy socks and drove
as fast as our TIWI would allow to the sisters apartment. We got there just in
time for President to get to our zone and announce we would both be leaving. It
was a stressful experience lol I wish we could get a less mossy phone. Dang
humidity messes with everything