two of my RC drove down from Hillaird to say goodbye to me this week. Malaekai and Maveryk were so fun to teach and I'm going to miss these goofy boys
WOW...not sure how this is possible but this is my last weekly email. Time has gone by so fast and I've loved my mission so much. Sister Esquerra and I have been working so hard the past few weeks and it has made time go even faster. I love my companion, I love my area, I LOVE being a missionary.
Not much to report on this week. We did lots of finding and street contacting and we met some really interesting people. I had my final interview with President Lee and he's the sweetest man on the planet. We talked about my mission experience and he gave me some really great life advice. I'm so thankful I got to serve here with him as my mission President. The Lord knew what I needed!
our investigator Helen taught us how to make jam this week. It was so fun!! We made orange marmalade and blueberry jam and they were both super super good! our fridge is full of jam from Helen haha
I'm going the keep this brief since we have a million things to do today to prepare for leaving...but I wanted to thank all of you for sticking with me on this crazy adventures. Honestly y'all are amazing. All the support/words of encouragement/prayers made a HUGE difference. I couldn't have done this without y'all!
The past few weeks I've been reflecting a lot on my mission and the different experiences I've had. It's amazing to see how much I've learned and grown. My mission has had its ups and downs..but the ups always outweigh the downs. I know this is Heavenly Fathers work. He loves his children and wants all of them to be able to live with him again. Life is so much more fulfilling when we focus on other people and do all we can to help them feel God's love for them.
I found this quote a few weeks ago that I just loved (I forgot to write down who said it....sorry!)
"Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour out peace. Whoever will lose his live in the service of God will find eternal life."
My mission has changed me forever. Sounds cliche but it's SO true. I gave everything I had to God the last 18 months, and through trials and long sweaty days in florida and crazy awesome miracles he's changed me. God is so good and I'm thankful for the time I've been able to serve.
I love y'all so much!
See ya in a week <33
xoxo
Sister Morrow
-Weekly Moss Moment-
One last moss moment. Wow. It's like Heavenly Father knew this would be the last one so he gave me a super mossy week and lots of experiences to choose from. Ask me about the strange man we met with plastic food sometime. That's a good story.
So last night we were getting ready for bed and when I came out of the bathroom Sister Esuqerra was standing by my door with a shoe in her hand. She informed me that while she was showering a HUGE cockroach ran across her foot and is just chilling in her shower. Bless her soul I would have just died right then and there if that happened to me. She didn't know exactly where it went but the thing was huge so we figured it wouldn't be too hard to find. She had some towels sitting in the edge of her tub and we thought it was hiding somewhere in there. So one by one we threw them inside the tub and then we found it. I'm not exaggerating I swear...the cockroach was the size of like a large mouse. IT WAS HUGE. It skuttled under another rag and was hiding but we could see the big lump where it was. I've killed a few cockroaches over the course of my mission but this was different and I was about to die. We texted SOS to the elders and they called and tried to give us a pep talk. I had the shoe in my hand for probably 10 min trying to get the courage to smoosh the dang thing. I was sweaty and anxious and we were just a mess hahaha! So I perched myself up on the tub and after lots of screams and gagging I go to hit it with the shoe..AND IT MOVED AND I MISSED AND IT SKUTTLED AWAY. I'm serious though yall. This was like the queen cockroach or something it was sooo big. We didn't see where it went and we went into straight panic mode. Nothing bonds a companionship like cockroach hunting. We accepted defeat though and the elders ran over and killed it for us while we waited outside. They rock haha! I've learned that it doesn't matter how clean you keep your apartment there will always be roaches. Bleh!
1&2 two of my RC drove down from Hillaird to say goodbye to me this week. Malaekai and Maveryk were so fun to teach and I'm going to miss these goofy boys
3&4&5 our investigator Helen taught us how to make jam this week. It was so fun!! We made orange marmalade and blueberry jam and they were both super super good! our fridge is full of jam from Helen haha