Hi everyone! So this week was a little crazy and different but lots of fun! We had our Branch Open House, exchanges, and zone conference so lots to report on this week!
Wednesday we were out finding trying formers and potentials and we met this guy named Jason! He'd met with the Elders once or twice back in 2011 but hadn't been contacted in years. We stopped by and he was so nice and came and sat and visited with us for a minute. He was super interested in the Book of Mormon and said he was willing to read it. He said 9 months ago he went through a lot and started putting his life back together and he felt like it was all preparing him to meet us and accept our message. It was awesome!
exchanges with the Hendricks STLs Thursday we had exchanges with the Waycross sisters! I went with Sister Harris up to Waycross and it was lots of fun! Sister Harris was my MTC companion over a year ago so it was fun to be back together again! We went and helped pick up pecans for one of their investigators then we did some finding. A super sweet member took us out for dinner and then we had some lessons that night! It was a good exchange and Sister Harris is such an amazing example to me :)
The next morning we woke up bright and early so we could get to Jacksonville for Zone Conference! We have a lot of exciting things happening with our mission right now and we had some really good trainings from President Lee, Sister Lee, and the Assistants. We also were trained on the Light the World initiative that will be starting in a few weeks and go throughout the Christmas season! I love Christmas and I can't believe it's almost here! Time is flying.
On the way down to Zone Conference Sister Hoffman was driving our car and it was acting weird and wasn't working very well. As soon as she pulled into the parking lot at the church it stalled and we couldn't get it to turn on or move or anything. Luckily we made it to the meeting! It was a tender mercy! Once zone conference was over we tried starting the car and it was working again so we drove it a few miles down the road to get it looked at. They weren't going to finish the car before they closed so we had to stay the night in Jacksonville with the Hendricks STLs. We were supposed to do an exchange with them that day anyway so it worked out! It was fun to be all together and be back in the city! When we woke up the next day we were able to pick up our car and head back to Callahan! Sister Williams came with me and we finished our exchange up here. We taught Malekai and Maveryk and they are set to be baptized the end of November!! We also saw Jason again and had a really awesome lesson with him on recognizing the spirit.
We switched back and headed up to Hilliard for the open house! We had a dinner and people visited and then we watched a short video and gave a tour of the chapel. We had awesome support from the branch and we had a really good turn out! Jason came and he told us he had a good time! He told us he is going to give the Book of Mormon a chance and that he is very open. He promised to come to church and is just so prepared. It's really exciting!!
I 💜 JAX
Things are moving along here in Callahan and it's super exciting! I love being a missionary and serving with these amazing people!!
I love y'all! Have a blessed week <33
xoxo
Sister Morrow
-Weekly Moss Moment-
So on Saturday after we switched back with the Hendricks sisters we were out trying some people before we had to go to the open house. About an hour after they left Callahan we realized that we had their phone. We started panicking thinking we were going to have to drive all the way back down to Jacksonville to give it to them but we didn't know how to get it to them or where they would be or anything. Luckily Sister Hoffman remembered the name of the lady feeding them dinner that night so we gave her a call and asked if she could have the sisters call us when they came for dinner. They called and the member offered to drive them up to get their phone. We had to leave for Hilliard so we hid the phone between our glass door and the front door. We are super tight on miles this month and it would have killed us to go all the way back to Jacksonville so we are happy it all worked out. MEMBERS ARE THE BEST