OP District!!
Well transfer call was this Saturday and.....IM STAYING IN OP!! What a relief. From our interviews with President Lee Sister Esquerra and I thought we might be getting split up but we are staying together and she will be my last companion. So crazy this is my last transfer! The next 6 weeks are going to fly by but I'm excited to work as hard as I can until the very end😁😁
This week looking back felt really busy but I can't think of anything super exciting to report on...we spent most of our days out trying to find formers and Less Active members. We were able to have another lesson with our investigators Robbie and Rosa! We talked with them a lot about their religious background and what we can do to help them. Robbie mentioned to us how important his family is and we were able to talk with them a little bit about temples and eternal families. They were really interested in that and so we are going to talk about it more when we go back this week!!
This week looking back felt really busy but I can't think of anything super exciting to report on...we spent most of our days out trying to find formers and Less Active members. We were able to have another lesson with our investigators Robbie and Rosa! We talked with them a lot about their religious background and what we can do to help them. Robbie mentioned to us how important his family is and we were able to talk with them a little bit about temples and eternal families. They were really interested in that and so we are going to talk about it more when we go back this week!!
This week I hit 17 months so we got some ice cream to celebrate!
Wednesday night the sister serving up in Brunswick came and stayed the night with us! Sister Heiner was going to the temple early the next morning and it's a pretty long drive so they just stayed with us! They got here kind of late and we all stayed up way too late talking haha! She had to be at the mission office really early so we didn't get much sleep that night but it was worth it haha! Her companion Sister Rhoads stayed with us for the day and it was a blast. We went and did service with our district at the clothes closet! We were in charge of organizing the toy room and it was a MESS so we filled up like 20 trash bags full of stuff. They only keep really nice toys and there was a lot of weird stuff in there that they just wanted to get rid of. It was kind of overwhelming how much stuff they had shoved in this one tiny room but it was a lot better in the end!
We did service this week wrapping plants in a lady's garden. We had another cold week and she didn't want her plants to die haha!
We did service this week wrapping plants in a lady's garden. We had another cold week and she didn't want her plants to die haha!
We also had a lesson that day with Glenda. Her husband is a member but he had been less active for a really long time. He just recently started coming back to church and asked us to come teach his wife! She is the sweetest lady ever!! She has already read the whole Book of Mormon and she comes to church with Joe every week! We had a really good visit with them and she opened up to us about some of her concerns. Hopefully we can help resolve some of them so she can get baptized! They're an amazing family and sent us on our way with a big box of fudge haha
This week I hit 17 months so we got some ice cream to celebrate!
This weekend the elders investigator Steve got baptized! His wife is a member and he's been investigating the church for a little over 2 years. Everyone in the ward knows him and we were all just so excited for him and for their family! We were able to attend the service and the spirit was so strong! He shared his testimony of the Book of Mormon at the end and how it's completely changed his life. He said the spirit slowly chipped away at him for 2 years until he couldn't wait any more and he had to be baptized! We were able to go over to their house after for a bonfire/barbeque and basically the whole ward came too haha! They were burning people's old Christmas Trees which was really crazy haha! We weren't able to stay for very long and so we went to find Steve to tell him bye and congratulate him one more time and when I shook his hand he pulled me in for a big bear hug and you could just see that he was beaming. Such a great day!!
This week I hit 17 months so we got some ice cream to celebrate! This weekend the elders investigator Steve got baptized! His wife is a member and he's been investigating the church for a little over 2 years. Everyone in the ward knows him and we were all just so excited for him and for their family! We were able to attend the service and the spirit was so strong! He shared his testimony of the Book of Mormon at the end and how it's completely changed his life. He said the spirit slowly chipped away at him for 2 years until he couldn't wait any more and he had to be baptized! We were able to go over to their house after for a bonfire/barbeque and basically the whole ward came too haha! They were burning people's old Christmas Trees which was really crazy haha! We weren't able to stay for very long and so we went to find Steve to tell him bye and congratulate him one more time and when I shook his hand he pulled me in for a big bear hug and you could just see that he was beaming. Such a great day!!
district milkshake moment before the transfer callThree years ago this week my family lost my oldest brother Alex. So much has happened in these last few years and it seems like forever ago and just yesterday at the same time. I know that because Jesus Christ suffered for our sins, died, and was resurrected we will be able to be together as a family again someday. I have a new perspective and know that it's possible to feel joy and grief at the same time. Our lives were meant to be a mix of all these different emotions (there must be opposition in all things) because that it how we grow and see things the way God intended us to see them.
"the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.
He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death." Mosiah 16:7-8
I love y'all! Have a blessed week
xoxo
Sister Morrow
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-Weekly Moss Moment-
Sunday night we went to the church to sync our tablets and put in a few lesson reports before heading home for the night. When we got to the church we realized the elders has left their bikes in one of the hallways. We always joke about trying to ride their bikes. One of the Elders is super tall (6'9 to be exact) and so the bike seat comes up to above my waist. It was late and no one was at the church so I decided to try and get on and ride it. I hiked my leg over the middle bar and put my feet on the peddles. At this point the seat is still way higher then I can reach so I grabbed the wall to steady myself and jumped up trying to sit on the seat. This didn't go over very well and the bike toppled over. I screamed and jumped and landed on the floor with the bike on top of me. Sister Esquerra and I died laughing. It was so funny! Luckily no one was around because it was super embarrassing and not very modest haha!