Happy Monday!! We had such an amazing week here in Arlington!!
First off...Elly and Loraine got baptized!!! Yay! The baptism was great. We had so many people from the ward come and their whole family was there too. They just had the biggest smiles on their faces the whole time and it made my heart so happy! The spirit was so strong throughout the whole service and it was just amazing! We went to see them the next day and asked how they felt and Elly said, "I just still feel so clean!!" It's the best feeling!" I just love them so much and am so happy for them. We are still working with Elly's husband George and he will hopefully be getting baptized soon :)
Elly and Lorraine aka my favorite people ever!!! It was such a perfect day!
This week we had a tradeoff with our Sister Training Leaders and I got to stay in Arlington with Sister Koener! I was supposed to go to Hendricks with her but I was asked to give a talk at a baptism for one of the elders’ investigators last minute so we switched the plans around. It ended up being really great though! While we were out working in an apartment complex we saw a couple that seemed to be struggling with their car. We went up and asked if they needed help and they explained they had locked their keys inside. We offered to help but we weren't able to get it unlocked haha they let us teach them about the Book of Mormon while waiting for the locksmith and they were super interested and open to it. It was a total miracle. After the baptism that night we had some time left and we weren't sure what to do. It was about 8:40 so we decided to try one more person in the area. We knocked on Regina’s door and she let us right in! She does family history at our church twice a week and used to meet with the sisters regularly. We read some scriptures with her and talked about how important our families are. She was the sweetest lady ever and we are going back to see her this week!
Lorraine being a goof
Vicky is doing great. We were able to take a member with us to see her this week and they totally hit it off! She was at church again yesterday and as soon as she walked in the door she asked us where the envelopes were so she could pay her tithing. She is so amazing!! They announced her baptism in sacrament meeting and she had so many ward members come up and tell her how excited they are for her and welcomed her in. She is so so so prepared and we can't wait for Thursday!! A few months back our ward had a special fast for missionary work and we are still seeing the blessings from that. Our ward will have had 6 convert baptisms in the last 2 months, which is AMAZING! I'm at thankful to be serving in a ward where the members have such great faith and are so willing to support missionary work! It really makes all the difference
REAL FLORIDA ORANGES! A member in our ward gave us two huge bags of oranges from the tree in their backyard. We used them make homemade juice and it was super yummy
I have been studying this week about the Holy Ghost, and how I can be more in tune with the promptings I receive. I was studying Elder Rasband's talk from this last session of Conference called Let the Holy Spirit Guide. In it he said
"Our Father in Heaven knew that in mortality we would face challenges, tribulation, and turmoil; He knew we would wrestle with questions, disappointments, temptations, and weaknesses. To give us mortal strength and divine guidance, He provided the Holy Spirit, another name for the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost binds us to the Lord. By divine assignment, He inspires, testifies, teaches, and prompts us to walk in the light of the Lord. We have the sacred responsibility to learn to recognize His influence in our lives and respond."
I am so thankful for the Holy Ghost. It is so essential to this work. We have to rely on it to tell us where to go, whom to visit, what to teach, and a million other things. I know as we learn to recognize the Holy Ghost we will see how much our Heavenly Father cares for us. He wants to give us that help and direction and he does that through the Holy Ghost. I love being a missionary! It's the best thing ever!!
I love y'all!! Have a blessed week and a happy mothers day!!
(Talk to you in 6 days mom!!!)
xoxo
Sister Morrow
Regina had these awesome cat pillows all over her house and I had to get a picture because they were so creepy and great
-Weekly Moss Moment-
This is one of my favorite moss moments. So we went to visit a LA one day that is known to be a kook. We were sitting in her kitchen visiting and she left us for a few minutes to get something from her room. While we were sitting there we noticed a strange jar sitting in the middle of the table. It had a weird powder in it that looked like hot cocoa powder maybe so sister g picked it up and began examining it. She opened it, shook it up a bit, and smelled it. She informed me that it didn't really smell like anything and I just shrugged and said I didn't know what it was. She closed the jar back up and sat it on the table again. When the member came back she noticed us looking at the jar and said, "Oh that's my girlfriends ashes. Her husband gave them to me. I thought it was kind of weird but I didn't know how you say no when someone offers you something like that" sister g and I exchanged a look of horror from across the table. Miss Cathy continued talking and I had to do some fake coughs so cover my laughing. As soon as we got in the car sister g just looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "I smelled a dead person." Lessons learned...Don't smell weird jars sitting on people's table and don't keep ashes in your kitchen hahaha!
We found this cat and named him woody. He followed us around for a few hours while trackting