Sis Haynie and I at Golden Corral 💖🤰
Another week is gone and Sister Esquerra and I are getting settled here in Orange Park! We had a super busy week seeing members, doing service, and finding some awesome new people to teach!! This week was sooo cold! We did a lot of biking and walking and I about died. It's supposed to be another cold week (the low is in the 20s one day!!!) it almost doesn't even feel like I'm in Florida anymore haha! I'm sorry for all of y'all out West dealing with colder weather and snow...I'm a wimp now haha!
JAX West zone!!
Tuesday we were able to do service at the clothes closet, which is a place that donates food and clothes to people in need! We organized stuff and hung up clothes and it was super fun! After service we had Exchanges with our STLs and I got to stay in OP with Sister Haynie!! It was loads of fun! We had a ton of lessons that day and so we were just running from one place to another. We had dinner with some of my favorite members, the Evans. They took us to Golden Corrall and I was pretty nervous because I've never eaten there before...it wasn't too bad haha! Sister Evans bought me and Sister Haynie bouncy balls from the little machines out front and we ended up getting matching blue ones! It was all very exciting haha
We wanted to play tennis for morning exercise so when we got home that night we walked over to the elders apartment to borrow their rackets. On the way back it started POURING and we got drenched...it was worth it haha
We also had interviews with our mission President this week which was really nice! President Lee is so amazing and you can just tell how much he loves all of us. I always love getting to visit with him for a few minutes! The rest of the week is all kind of blurring together. We are really trying to build our teaching pool so we spend basically all day everyday finding. We met a man named Robbie and his daughter Rosa one day and they were super awesome! They told us about their experience with missionaries in the past and they were so open to what we had to share! We showed them a short video about prophets and they said we could come back this week! It was a tender mercy!
Sisters Dinner to celebrate the end of the transfer!
On Sunday we had a special regional stake conference broadcast! It was for about 5 states in the southeast and it was really good! A couple of general authorities spoke along with Elder Bednar. A lot of the talks were about the importance of the temple and families, and learning to apply the Atonement of Christ in our lives. Elder Bednar spoke about having faith unto repentance. He taught that having faith is not enough if it doesn't cause us to turn our lives to the Savior. He also talked about the redeeming and strengthening or enabling aspects of the Atonement. Christ's Atonement not only cleanses us from sin, but it is there to strengthen us in any difficult circumstances we are facing. This makes His Atonement for both sinners and saints. WE ALL NEED HIM! I am so thankful for my Savior and I know as we turn to Him we receive more strength, peace, and light in our lives!
I love y'all! Have a blessed week <33
xoxo
Sister Morrow
-Weekly Moss Moment-
Sunday night we had a lesson set up with a lady named Sharon. We had never been to her apartment before and we were kind of lost. After a few minutes we found the right building and what we thought was the right apartment. We knocked on the door and waited....no answer. We knew she was expecting us so we knocked again and waited... still no answer. We looked around and r
ealized that we had knocked on the outside storage closet door instead of her front door. We went to the right door and she answered!! Super embarrassing! In our defence there were no apartment numbers on the doors and really no way to tell which is which! Luckily we found Sharon and she told us all about her life and her passion for playing the accordion!