Old people are the CUTESTTTTTT

March 7, 2016

HELLO my beautiful family!!!  Can you believe it is March already!? I swear it was like yesterday I was sitting here and emailing! time is flyyinnnggg 

I loved seeing and hearing from everyone in the family! (except Tanner you goob)  And loved seeing the pictures of everyone having a good time skiing!!!  It is sunny and 70 here and I am loving ittt!

okay so I cut my hair! It was getting wayyy too long and it was time for the locks to be cut so a member in the ward did the privilege. Its short! haha a little shorter than I had anticipated haha but its healthy and my companion says she likes it!  I don't really know how I feel about it but its just hair right? I think I would care a bit more if I wasn't a missionary but I am so Im kinda like eh whateves.  Mom and Dad you'll have to tell me how it really looks haha. I will send a picture.

This week was good!!! Sadly theres some sort of sickness going around and I got it this week....nothing too major.  Just a soar throat, some congestion, and a little bit of a cough. And since we are with each other 24/7 Sister Mennenga got it too :( it was pretty rough but that didn't stop our plow horse working! 

Remember Elect Pam? Ms. Pam is still VERY ELECT.  She is so wonderful.  We met with her last Tuesday and taught her a watered down Restoration lesson.  Mostly because she knows the whole lesson by heart, that is how much reading she has done in the pamphlets, online, and in the Book Of Mormon.  She was pretty much telling us the lesson.  Even before the lesson we were just talking and she said "So If I want to be a member what would I need to do?"  Sister Mennenga and I just looked at one another and smiled! She is so ready for baptism and wants to be baptized as soon as possible! She still has not been to church but is planning on coming this upcoming Sunday with her husband, who claims to not be interested in the gospel at all.  At the end of the lesson we asked if she had any questions, She said  "No I don't, its just so interesting because its almost as if I already..."  she paused and then we chimed in, "as if you've already known these things?"  She said yes! Like its all just familiar to me.   Sometimes there are those investigators who you don't even have to try with...that is Ms. Pam.  She will be baptized before this transfer is over with.  no doubt.

This week we went tracting in a trailer park way way way out in the boonies. I got so excited because there aren't too many trailer parks here.  The place seemed really dead but we knocked quite a few doors.  Everyone there was hispanic!  They were all so nice and so many of them let us in their homes!  It was the best.  It brought me back to the Branch and reminded me of the love I have for those people.  

Another nugget of golden missionary work that happened this week was at the Veterans Museum.  We have been doing service for them recently and once a month they have a big free breakfast for all the Veterans in Athens.  There were about 60 of the cutest old people you've ever seen in America here in this Museum and we were there serving donuts and handing out napkins and orange juice.  IT WAS SO CUTE.  Every person we talked to we would ask about where they served and they would share some really cool experiences with us.  It was a wonderful missionary opportunity too because we were the only people there under the age of 65! hahaha I wish I would have gotten a picture!  The best part about the whole thing was right at the beginning before we started they had everyone stand and listen to the National Anthem.  These old men were all saluting the American flag and it made me get a little misty eyed because of how serious they took this.  They really put their lives on the line for this country and they love it with all their hearts.  It was a really neat experience. We got to meet the Sheriff and The Mayor of Athens! Who invited us to a church service nearby hahaha

Life is fabulous here in beautiful Athens!! So many people are prepared to hear the message of the gospel and it is lovely.  This gospel is true.  I LOVE IT.   I will leave you all with a verse from the Book of Mormon that I read yesterday.  

 "Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as we, since the world began;  yea, and my joy is carried away, even unto boasting in my God; for he has all power, all wisdom, and all understanding, he comprehendeth all things...Now if this is boasting, ecen so will I boast, for this is my life and my light, my joy and my salvation, and my redemption....yea, blessed be the name of my God, who is mindful of all people."

Alma 26:35-36

I LOVE YOU ALL.  Thank you for the support, love, and prayers

Steadfast in Christ

ROLL TIDE

Hermana Malone

p.s. We met a guy this week and when we asked where he was from this was his response:

"Tuscaloosa, 205, Roll Tide TILL I DIE!"   (205 is the area code in Tuscaloosa)  haha I heart AL