dos mil diecisiete!!!!!

1-3-17

FAM BAM! 

Wow What a week.  Can you believe its already 2017????  I never thought this year would come.  2016 literally flew by.  I cant even remember what happened!! All wonderful fantastic Alabamian things.

I don't know why but this week was so funny!!  Everything about it was laughable.  In the sense that sometimes I would say to myself "Wow this is SUCH a mission experience/situation, I could either cry because its so sad or laugh because its so funny"  Not sure if that makes sense hahaha For example New Years Eve was raining ALL DAY. Thundering and Lightening and raining but who says rain has to put a damper on things???   We made the best of it and sang as we tracted all day because all our appointments cancelled.  But we actually had a great day.  One of our investigators, R***, an old black lady, dropped us :(  she handed us her Book of Mormon we gave her and said 

"I don’t want to study no more wich yall!"   When we asked why she told us about when we invited her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, she said "  But I don’t believe in Ask God I believe in MY God!!"  hahaha oh R***.....

Our Spanish investigator, O**** is doing AWESOME!  He is so solid.  Although he told us he would be at church and never showed :(  He is still reading the Book of Mormon daily and praying.  He accepted baptism for the 21st of January! He always has the best questions and when we invited him to attend the closest Spanish branch (1 1/2 hours away) he got SO excited and really wanted to go, he said in his broken English "thees es a vury sooprise to me!"   So we might do some digging and get O**** involved in the Spanish branch.  WOOHOO.

For New Years Eve.  The senior couple, Elder and Sister Jones invited us for dinner! Sine we had to be in early the other sisters came over to our apartment and we put together a 500 piece puzzle.  IT WAS SO FUN.  I love puzzles haha am I my Grandmother Warr's Granddaughter???  

Also our mission president encourages us to attend other churches on sundays specifically evening services to fellowship with other religions so we did on Sunday night.  We went to an evening service with Revival Worship Center.  It was so cool! And weird.  Its interesting to watch others worship in different ways.  They had, what seemed to be equivalent to a testimony meeting and asked if one of the visitors would share their testimony and the guy looked RIGHT at me for a while (we were the only visitors)  I smiled and stood up and shared my testimony.  It was really cool!!! I just said I was grateful to be there with fellow Christians to worship and bore my testimony of our Savior.  It was short and sweet.  Pretty sure I was beat red when I sat back down hahaha  

I have a strong and burning testimony of this gospel.  I know and believe that when we reach out to the Lord and endeavor to keep His commandments, we are rewarded beyond our greatest expectations, not necessarily with worldly goods but with peace, comfort, spiritual safety, and the reassuring knowledge of God's love  and concern.  

I find that peace and reassurance in the Book of Mormon.  My personal new years resolution is to be faithful in reading the Book of Mormon every day.  I WILL DO IT TOO.

Because for every step we are willing to take toward our Savior, I KNOW He will gladly meet us more than half-way and we will rejoice in His promise to us, " Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love"  -D&C 6:20

I LOVE YOU ALL! have a great week

hermana Molin-eh

Steadfast in Christ

P.S EVERYONE ATTENTION.  watch the Alabama National Championship game next Monday for me!!  National champs 2017!!!!!!! ROLL TIDE