November 30, 2015

First off! Thanksgiving!!! Estoy muy agradecida por todo los bendiciones yo he recibido.  Especialmente mi family y el evangelio de Jesucristo. 

I feel like I was literally just sitting here last week emailing ya’ll! This week has flown by.  But I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! It sounds like everyone had a good time.  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here in Huntsville too!  All 4 hermanas in the branch went to the **** house for thanksgiving! The **** are a wonderful couple with 3 older boys, all married.  Hermano **** is white and is married to Hermana ****, who is Argentinian.  Both are fluent in both English and Spanish.  Their whole family was at their house along with another family from the ward.  Dinner was DELICIOUS!! I really did miss mom's apple pie though! But it was divine.  They were so nice to let us come! They were our only appointment though because most of the branch doesn’t really do Thanksgiving.  Some do but most just enjoy the day off of work!! Which meant it was an awesome day to contact Hispanics because most were just chillin’ at home.  

Last Monday though, on P-day our STLs wanted to have a mini Thanksgiving dinner.  They had this big ole Native Indian activity planned. haha It was so funny, they gave all the sisters in the zone an American Indian name.  Mine was Ahyoka which means "She brought happiness" hahaha so my name from now on is Hermana Ahyoka. 

Miracle of the week:  

***** ***** CAME TO CHURCH. I REPEAT *****  CAME TO CHURCH. I feel like my baby just took its first steps. I was so happy. Just beaming the entire service. It was wonderful.  We had a wonderful lesson with ***** on Thursday about faith.  We read with him in the Book of Mormon and talked about how it doesn’t really matter how much faith you have, as long as you ACT on that faith.  Faith is an action word.  When we asked him how we can act on our faith, He told us he really wanted to come to church and so we had a member come by Sunday morning and pick him up and sure enough he came!  I think he really enjoyed it.  

2nd Miracle:

On our way to teach this woman *****, we ran into a man, his name was ******* and we just asked him where he was from and just got to know him.  We asked him if he wanted to know more and he totally did! We didn’t really think much of it but when we got to our appointment with him the next day he was like, "Bueno, vamos a la iglesia verdad?" He thought we were going to the church for a service.  We explained that there was no service but if he really wanted to we could have the lesson at the church.  He said he really wanted to go to so we went!! Our first lesson with this guy was a church tour!! It was awesome.  Sister ****** and I were like wondering if this guy was a normal man or if he was an angel haha.  Long story short, the tour went amazing.  We gave him un Libro de Mormon and he got so excited and said he couldn’t come to church this week but he really wants to come because he has been searching for a church!! WHAT.  So incredible.

The English Elders in our building wanted to start up a friendly competition with us on Saturday to see who could get the most "May We Teach Yous",  which is just a number to keep tract of how many people we invite to be taught a day.  We are supposed to get a standard a week of 84.  Which is 12 MWTYs a day.  Which is sometimes really hard, but we were determined to beat Elder Wall and Stuart.  We had a pretty open day for just straight up tracting and contacting so that’s what we did ALL day.  We didn’t take lunch or dinner, from 11am-9pm we were contacting.  AND WE WON.  We got 126 last Saturday, which is pretty unheard of.  WOOHOO.  We even invited a gang! ....ok that was a little sketchy but everyone needs the gospel right?

And thats also pretty amazing because the HUGE football game was Saturday.  The Iron bowl,  University of Alabama vs. Auburn.  THE BIGGEST game of the century according to Alabamians.  There were like zero people on the streets.  And pretty much everyone we talked to brought up the game.  And ROLLTIDE, Alabama won! Woohoo!

Sister ***** and I have been really blessed with some incredible experiences this week.  I cant write them all down but I just know it’s because we truly have been working our hardest and doing our best and trying to be exactly obedient.

I know this work is true and so very, very important.  I love being a missionary.  It takes so much out of you that you just don’t even think of yourself.  I know that Christ is my Savior and Redeemer.  I know that this Gospel is true, but it is more than just believing and saying it.  Many people here in the south are believers and wonderful, wonderful believers.  They have such strong testimonies.  But it is more than believing. it is Acting. It is living.  I hope to live this gospel for the rest of my life.  There is so much happiness here.  I am grateful for a prophet to guide and direct the people through our literal Father in Heaven.  

I invite all of you to live your beliefs.  In this is true happiness.  I LOVE IT!!!

Love you all!! Take care and have a great week my family!

Hermana Macaroni Moli