Joy Spreaders aka Missionaries

April 25, 2016

HELLO WORLD This weeks letter will be a short one but it was a great week! The spring weather is so wonderful!  I want to be outside all the time.

The bicycle was our bff this week. Sister Anderson and I biked ALOOOTTTT.  Needless to say my bum bum is feeling the repercussions of it hahaha  But it was a great workout and SO many people are outside gardening and loving life.  Smiles all around :)

This past week *****  has been in the hospital getting her knee replacement so went over to the hospital to see her with a few members.  She was high as a kite, drugged up on morphine and other pain relievers and was sooo happy to see us! While we were visiting with her a nurse came in to see how she was doing and offered ***** some tea, *****  replied and said, "No thank you ma'am I am a Mormon and I don't drink tea." haha GO *****! She told us that "Us Mormons are just delightful people, I love being around all yall." So cute. We all love *****. Before we left I asked **** for some advice since I am young and inexperienced what would be some advice that she, a wise and amazing person, would give me! She said "Get an education! Stay in the church and continue to build your faith.  I have strong faith but I want it to be so much stronger.  I want people to see it when I walk by." 

She is an awesome example to us all.  What if after we talked to someone we don't really know and after the conversation was over they just thought, that person has some great faith.  They really know who they are. Or even just walking by someone could notice it. I think we should all strive to be like that.  Not in a "oh look at me and all the faith I have." But really try and be a light to others.

With the weather being wonderful and all that for some reason the missionary work struggled.  Since our highest high with both *** and ***** being baptized we have had a small pool of investigators but a lot of potentials!  We have been finding finding and finding.  But for some odd reason every lesson appointment we had planned this week fell through. EVERY SINGLE ONE. A lot of our potentials we are working with have had some crazy things happening to them! Don't know if they are true or not but none the less!  We just kept the faith and kept on going. 

One more thing!  We had dinner with a family in the ward yesterday.  They are an awesome family whose grandparents live right behind them in a mobile home.  They are true southerners.  That being said, for dinner we had a true southern hillbilly meal. Biscuits and chocolate gravy.  Which is exactly what it sounds like.  Warm biscuits with butter with chocolate gravy doused all over topped with some more butter.  It honestly made me kinda sick watching the butter melt off although it was DELICIOUS.  Although it seemed more of a dessert than a dinner meal hahaha.  Southerners do not shy away from dousing their biscuits in something sweet and syrupy. Sop ’em if you got ’em.

It was a southern experience for sure!! Gotta love Alabama.

Like I said earlier we did ALOT of contacting this week and talked to some amazing people.  We met a really nice couple. The man's name was Joseph Smith...no joke!! He was so funny and nice and knew that his name was the name of someone famous in the Mormon Church.  He told us that he was working in Nashville in construction when two Mormon Elders came up to him and when he told them his name their jaws dropped and he said "No I am not him but I am a Modern day prophet."  That gave us all a good laugh and a neat intro to a cool discussion about Prophets.  SO funny!!
Another lady we talked to at a yard sale was such a hoot, we told her who we were after talking for a few minutes and she just yelped and got so excited!! She said "They should call all ya’ll Joy Spreaders in stead of missionaries!! You just filled my soul with Joy this morning!!!"   So I guess that is what we are! My name is Sister Moline and I am a Joy Spreader.

I love you all!!! This is truly the Lord's work I know it is! I love spreading joy and meeting so many wonderful people.  God's hand is truly in this work.

Con mucho amor,

Sister Moline!!!

Sureloveyou Molines rock and MISSIONARIES RULE

and of course roll tide roll