Mac Town

#LightTheWorld
Well transfer call was this past Saturday and I found out that I'm being transferred to MacClenny! It's a small country town kind of like Callahan but it has a Wal-Mart so that is very exciting! I'm sad to leave Callahan and all the branch members and our investigators but I know that MacClenny is where I'm supposed to be! 

Making a gingerbread house with our friend Madi:))

We had a busy last few days which made the week go by super fast! 

We had a super awesome miracle on Tuesday. We'd had District Meeting that morning and had stayed after so Sister Hoffman could practice the piano for a special musical number she was doing. While we were there we heard the church phone ringing out in the hallway! We went and answered it and it was a lady named Jennifer who was a member and had just moved to Hilliard and needed some help getting settled. We gave our Branch President a call and he was able to get in contact with her and get everything worked out. On Wednesday night we were at the church again for a meeting and we saw Jennifer there! She was meeting with President Hand and so we were able to visit with her a bit. She had her husband with her who isn't a member and he said that he is interested in coming to church and being baptized!! They were at church on Sunday and it was just such a cool experience! 

We borrowed a tv from the assistants for the parade and they needed it back but we weren't going to be home so they just broke into our apartment to get it. They left us cookies though so it's all good haha

Thursday we had our mission Christmas party down in Jacksonville! It was fun to go and see all of my friends that are serving in other parts of the mission! Each zone made a Christmas skit, then we ate lunch and had a Christmas Devotional. The missionaries from our branch sang and there were other songs and talks. It was all really good and got me super excited for Christmas!! We also had our branch Christmas party and put up all of our decorations in our house so it was a very festive week 😊

Zone P-day last week! 

Yesterday in church a member gave a talk about God's love that I really enjoyed. She talked about the significance of the star that appeared as a sign of Christ's birth. She said that if God was able to place that star precisely in the right place thousands of years beforehand so that at the exact moment it was supposed to it would shine over Bethlehem then He can do the same for us. He places us in situations and with people that will help us even if at the time we don't understand. There are no coincidences in this life and if we look we can see the Lord's hand even in the minor details. I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ. I know they love all of us more than we can even comprehend!

I love y'all! Have blessed week <33
xoxo
Sister Morrow 

Here's my new address!! :) 

491 Michigan Ave #3
MacClenny FL  32063

All the missionaries that came out with me at the Christmas party 

LIGHT THE WORLD

This week was busy and crazy and it felt like we weren't in our area at all but it was still so fun!! I can't believe it's already December! It was pretty hot this week though which makes me still feel like it's August or something. It's crazy how the time is flying! 

We found this cute puppy while working on the float and it was the best part of the day

We had a special 2 day MLC this week in Jacksonville and it was fantastic. We had training from Brother Donaldson and Brother Glazier from the missionary department. They came a fews weeks ago but it was a smaller group this time so we had more discussions, role plays, and different activities to help us understand the principles they were trying to teach us. Since we are one of the 12 test missions they are going to be working very closely with us to see what we can do to be more affective. We spent all day Wednesday in the meeting and then that night we went out on exchanges with the sisters in Jacksonville. I got to see my trainee Sister Goeller and it was so fun!! The objective of the exchange was to observe the investigators. We weren't supposed to talk much or teach the lesson but really just focus on how the investigator was feeling. It was a very interesting and eye opening experience. We went back the next day and discussed what we saw and then received more training. The overall theme was listening. We have to be aware of the investigator and listen to their needs and then teach them. We are getting away from teaching the lessons in a set order and just teaching what would be most helpful for them that day. We talked about a lot of other things too and it just made me so excited to go out and work!!



We had a really awesome experience with a part member family this week where we were able to apply what we learned  We stopped by and knocked on the door and met the nonmember wife Tracy. She said it was a bad time and we asked if we could come back in a few days. She agreed and when we came for the return appointment she came outside and visited with us. She told us her experience in the past with missionaries and her religious feelings. We also got to know her family background and learned a lot about her. All this information was very helpful for teaching her and it helped her connect and open up. Yesterday at church her active mother in law came up to us and told us how much she appreciated us stopping by and seeing Tracy. She said she rarely if ever actually talks to the missionaries and that Tracy really liked us and was willing to have us come back and see her more!! It was really exciting! 




Friday was the first day of December and the kick off for the Light the World Christmas campaign!! Saturday was the Callahan Christmas parade and and we were able to work with the members of the branch to enter a Light the World float! We helped them decorate it and all the missionaries in our district came and helped! We were able to hand out water bottles with cards tied tie them for Day 2 which was based off the scripture in Matthew 25 that says "I was thirsty and ye gave me drink" it was a hot day in Florida and everyone appreciated the water. We handed out hundreds of cards and it was just an amazing missionary opportunity! I am so excited to serve and help light the world leading up to Christmas!! It has really helped me focus on the Savior and remember the reason for the season! If any of y'all have question or want to participate you can check out mormon.org :) 

I love y'all! Have a blessed week <33

xoxo

Sister Morrow 

Callahan Christmas parade!!! 🎄🎁❤

-Weekly Moss Moment-
One night we were doing some Facebook work. We were both on our tablets messaging back and forth teaching lessons with several people over messenger. When we are online our thumbs are flying and it can be hard to keep the different conversations separate. We were teaching 3 people on messenger and texting an investigstor all at the same time. I had sent one text then I passed the phone of to Sister Hoffman to reply. She read her response out to me and I approved it but I was kind of distracted. Our investigstor responded and she passed the phone back to me for the next response. I typed a question and read it out loud,  Sister Hoffman approved and right after hitting send she said "WAIT NO!" but it was too late. I asked our investigator the exact same question that she just had but hadn't realized haha it was kind of awkward but I think we learned our lesson...don't let the moss distract you when you are doing online lessons! 

Malekai and Maveryk!!

Malekai and Maveryk at their baptism!!!

This week was great! We had lots of meetings, some solid lessons, ate lots of turkey, and 2 of our investigators got baptized!! 

Wednesday we had interviews with President Lee! We were able to give a training on the importance of having a testimony of the Book of Mormon! It went really well and I really enjoyed studying the topic more and hearing other missionaries personal experience with the Book of Mormon. After the district meeting was over we rode with Presidents and the Assistants to Brunswick for their interviews/district meeting. After that we rode over to Waycross for their interviews/district meetings. We gave a training there on planning! It's fun to get to see the other missionaries in the zone since we are all spread out. It was a long day of meetings and lots of driving and we ended up getting back to Callahan a little after 9pm. We were exhausted! 

Thanksgiving with Sister Hoffman ❤❤

Thursday was Thanksgiving and it was great!!! We spent the morning baking cookies then we went and had lunch with the Steeles. The Elders, the Gillands, and 2 other families from the branch came and we all visited and ate and played some games. I had the best yams of my life and I was very content. I love thanksgiving!! After we finished eating we took our cookies we baked and visited less active members from the branch. We also visited some elderly members and people that spent the holiday alone. We gave them cookies and sang Christmas carols for them! It was really fun! Friday we went back to the Steeles house and helped them decorate for Christmas! We set up their tree and other decorations and it was so fun! Christmas time is the best!! We got our tiny tree set up at our house and will be decorating it soon! Everyone say a quick prayer that I stay one more transfer so I can be here for Christmas! 

We found a little kitten when we were out caroling and I wanted to bring it home so bad

Malekai and Maveryk also got baptized this week!! They are a part member family that we have been working with for the last transfer and they are the funniest kids ever! Every time we taught them they just absorbed everything and were so ready to get baptized! Maveryk got to be baptized on his bday too so that made it extra exciting! When we were taking pictures Maveryk jumped up and said "lets go get baptized!!!!" It was adorable haha! I love being a missionary and being able to work with so many people and see how the gospel blesses their life! 

I am so thankful for all of y'all! I love being a missionary! Thanks for the continued support!

Give your mom a hug and feed the missionaries in your ward.
I love y'all! Have a blessed week <33
xoxo 
Sister Morrow 

The Steeles fancy purple Christmas tree

-Weekly Moss Moment-
Thursday at Thanksgiving we were playing some games while we were waiting for dinner to finish. They had this weird marble game and connect 4. Elder Davis and I were playing connect 4 and he ended up beating me. I tried to pull on the game to get all the pieces out to reset it but I accidentally pulled on it too hard and the whole thing went flying and the little game pieces went every where. It was super embarrassing and we had to get it all cleaned up...dang moss 

Saturday we were in Waycross all day so we went out to eat with the sisters! We went to a place called the Mexican trailer and it was surprisingly good lol 

This second one happened just a few minutes ago...we have these shelves in our laundry room and there's medicine/random stuff up there. I went in to change my clothes and noticed a bunch of weird paper in the washer. A box of cold medicine fell in and I hadn't noticed and so the paper got all over my clothes. Luckily no medicine or weird stains...but it was still a pain to clean up! P-day moss is the worst!!