*****, her daughter **** , and me. They are members in the branch! It was ****** birthday!!
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Happy Holloween!!! and I love Alabama
October
31, 2016 
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Happy
Halloween!!!! and I love Alabama
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WOW THIS WEEK! So much has happened and I don't
even know how to put it into words.
Happy
Halloween!!!! I CANNOT believe October is over...Time is flying and it
needs to slow.down.
On Saturday the branch
had its annual Halloween/Fall Festival. We and the other sisters were in
charge of decorations and games for the kids and adults. IT WAS A
BLAST. Total success. We went kind of above and beyond for it
because we were so excited. We had games for the kids and games for the
adults and a trunk or treat at the end and a taco soup/chili lunch. It
was great. Everyone seemed to have a ball. And on top of that, we
had over 20 investigators that came!! Not all at once but dispersed. THAT
IS A BIG DEAL. Considering that there were probably about 20 members that
came. A few of our Hispanic investigating families came even though they
couldn’t really communicate with everyone. *** and her daughter and
nephews came too! They had a great time. Everyone was dressed up
and it made us feel good that we could put on something like that for the
branch and others.
Then Sunday was
the Primary Program and it was so good! I played the piano for it and it went
super good! I didn’t mess up too bad haha. All the kids were so cute and
did so well.
We had some great
lessons with *** this week! We taught her the Word of Wisdom with some members
in the ward who both used to smoke before they joined the church. *** has
smoked for a very long time and has tried to quite. It went so well and
she resolved to quite and wrote out a plan of how she will do it! We are so
proud of her! The next time we saw her, it was an unplanned visit, we
just stopped in and she was on the couch highlighting and reading the Book of
Mormon! We also read out of the Book of Mormon with her and during our
lesson, her nephew was sitting next to me and started stroking my
hair, *** said to him "What are you doing leave the girls hair
alone!" then he says "White people's hair is so soft."
then he covers his mouth and his eyes got so big! he was so embarrassed!
hahaha it was so funny because everyone here is black. Kim got so mad at
him and was like "when you say that you just say HER hair is soft or THEY
have soft hair. We all the same okay?!!!" haha it was great I just
laughed so hard and said thank you haha
Alot of our other
potential investigators have been kinda falling off. The last 2 weeks we
found so many awesome people to teach and then Satan just swoops on in with
family deaths, work, and busy lives and other things. So we haven’t been able
to meet with alot of them. It is the worst! But we are not giving up.
We have been working with a Hispanic family that is perfect. ***** y *******. They have been here for 9 years and are so cute!! Both grew up
Pentecostal but haven’t attended because they have different views about
religion now. We are so excited about them!!
This past week in our
District Meeting Sister Danes and I gave a training on Patience. I think
the Lord knew that we both needed this training, especially me. I learned
so much more about how we can be patient with ourselves, with others, and
really rely on the Lord and His timing. Patience is the combination of Faith
and Hope. President Hanks said that "Patience is our behavior when
we have true faith." I love that! We can all work on our
patience!! A few ways we can is 1) by recognizing the moments that we are
impatient and 2) by changing our first initial critical or judgmental,
frustrating, or angry feelings or thoughts we initially have in
situations.
Mosiah 5:12 says,
"Remember to retain the name written always IN your hearts."
Something I am definitely learning out here with my learning and with our
teaching of investigators is that the Spirit can bring the message to our
hearts, but WE have to be the ones to let it in! Like that sweet picture of
Christ knocking on a door without a door handle? He is always knocking BUT we
are the ones who have to let him in and KEEP him in. I love the visual and know
that when we always remember Him, Christ, in every action, word, and thought,
that He will guide us to where we need to go and WHO we need to be!
I am sorry this email
seems extra scatterbrained and crazy but I love you all and thank the Lord
every day for the awesome support of have from my family!!
LOVEYALLSOMUCH
Be safe today and
watch out for those clowns! Les amo TANTO
BE STEADFAST IN CHRIST
con mucho amor,
Your Alabamian
ROLLTIDE
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Longhorns in Alabama!! a lil piece of home
Sister Danes and I!
lizard ewww
Sister ******! sweetest lady ever!
When I asked Sister Melton if she liked Alabama haha
Some of the kids at church
One of our favorite members of the branch! Sister Patterson. She is a RM and LOVES missionary work and the missionaries.
IT'S FALL YA'LL!!
IT”S FALL YA”LL!!
10-24-16
Its finally feels like
Fall!! We were in the high 80s earlier in the week and then we dropped
down to the low 60s!! I was freezing my patootie off but it felt so good!
Fall has FINALLY made it's way to Alabama! Which also means tornado
season is on it's way... Pray for us!
This
week has been wonderful I feel like it has been so long since I sat down to
email! First things first! Tuesday we had Transfers! My new
companion is Sister Danes, From Nampa Idaho. She is the youngest of 6
siblings and has 20 nieces and nephews. WHOA. She attended BYU Idaho for 2
semesters before she came out. She is shy and quiet in big groups but when its
just one on one, she so talkative and fun!!! She has always wanted to
serve a mission and yall...she was born to be a missionary. She is
AWESOME. So on top of things and really has so much to bring to this
companionship. Sister Danes was the only Spanish sister that came out
this transfer so I know I was meant to train her. She could have gone to
plenty of other wonderful companions and areas. There is a reason we are
together and I am so excited for what the future holds! What we can learn
together.
There
is so much that went on this week. It was FULL of so many miracles and wonderful
teaching experiences!!!! I honestly want to write them all and tell them
to you but this email would be as long as the bible so I will just share the
highlights and emmaus experiences.
Emmaus
Experiences:
********! Remember her from last week? She is doing so
good! We met her last week and have been teaching her close to every other
day. She is so solid! Her BoM is all marked up and is learning
every day. We talked about Faith and read Alma 32, her response
after we said that was "Wait what chapter? you mean the Chapter I already
read and marked up?" She had already read Alma 32, as she was
skipping around the Book of Mormon reading different parts! SO COOL. The
Lord is in every part of this work. We invited and she committed to come
to church Sunday but didn't show up :( But we aren't giving up! poco a
poco.
*** CAME TO CHURCH! We've been trying to get her to be at church for the last
2 weeks! A member, Sister Jones, gave her a ride along with 3 of her
nieces and nephews! I gave a talk in church about baptism and she was beaming
the whole time! She really enjoyed it! Before Sunday we had a
wonderful lesson with her about Baptism and we set a baptismal date forNovember
19th!! She has some Word of Wisdom problems that shes working through but The
spirit was so strong and she was all for it. She told us that she knew
without a doubt that we were sent by God to help her. Sister Danes and I bore
powerful testimonies about the truthfulness of the Gospel and told her that the
next step is Church! And she came! We were so happy! Yay
Kim! We both have so much love for that woman its insane.
Saturday,
we went with the senior missionary couple, Elder and Sister Jones to visit some
Less Actives in Linden, (a small town 30 minutes away) it was SO FUN.
We talked with Sister *****, a small old black lady about 92 years old.
She was SO sweet! She lived in Salt Lake City for 20 years with her
brother and was introduced to the gospel there and was baptized. She
lovessss SLC. She has lived pretty much all over the world, England, NYC,
Hawaii, California and SLC was her favorite because everyone there was so sweet
to her. Today, many of her health problems keep her from attending church
in Demop.****** has my heart! She gave us some advice as
"young folk" and said to "Look to the Lord, Jesus, in all
that you do, for every breath you take, for everything." -Sister *******. How cute is that??!!!
I am
SO happy. This week we just worked so hard and were so busy. I know
that I am doing all I can for the Lord and whatever I cannot do, He can make it
up. It really is up to us to BUILD that relationship we have with our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. In return, we can feel true happiness. Not the
joy or happiness that comes from the world, not temporary happiness but lasting
joy. This is my testimony and prayer that we might remember those times
that we have felt and recieved a witness from the Holy Spirit that He is the
center of our lives and that we must remember Him always. "Do a
little more to be a little better." THis is true happiness!.
I
LOVE being a missionary and more than anything I love helping others come to
this special knowledge that I have gained.
Have
a great week YALL!!!!!!!!!!!
Steadfast
in CHRIST. Molinesrockmissionariesrule
Sister
Moline
10-17-16
selfies are a musttttt
Sister Frazer and I with the senior couple Elder and Sister Jones. They live right by us and they are the BEST. always feeding us and babying us. They are our parents in Demopolis! haha
With my package from mom and dad! I feel loved. THANK YOU!:)
Amaria ( a member) and her friends. We have been working alot in the projects and every time they see our car they scream "MISSIONARIES!!" and run to us!
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