Sweet home Alabama

January 23, 2017

AHHH this week has been crazy fast!! I feel like I was just here writing yall.  

Today will be a kinda short email but the biggest news this week is that our investigator, Damaris came to church!!! She is 16 years old and is from Honduras.  She speaks zero English because she has only been here for 2 months.  A few members of her family are members, so she knows a bit about the church.  She has been taught by missionaries for a month. And she and her cousin came to church!  It was glorious.  She told us she absolutely loved it and is coming with us to a members home tonight for Noche de hogar!  This week we hope to set a baptismal date with her! WOOHOO 

This week, since we have been finding alot, Sister Magness and I found ALOT of people with random connections with the gospel.  It was such a miracle.  We met a lady named Doris from Mexico who was taught by missionaries forever ago and even had a baptismal date but we couldn’t find her records in the area book because it was literally 6 years ago.  She was so awesome. 

About 4 or 5 times this week we were meeting with some investigators, prepared to teach them a super spiritual lesson but instead they invite us to eat delish Mexican food with them and their ENTIRE extended family.  This happened so many times this week, Sister Magness and I just went with it. hahaha this culture is the best!

Also this week we had Zone training!  We learned about having trust and hope in the Savior. We also listened to Elder Stevenson's talk on the Book of Mormon. One thing he said that I love is "Within the book’s pages, you will discover the infinite love and incomprehensible grace of God. As you strive to follow the teachings you find there, your joy will expand, your understanding will increase, and the answers you seek to the many challenges mortality presents will be opened to you. As you look to the book, you look to the Lord." The scriptures are there to help us learn and grow and come closer to the Savior.

Also At LEAST 5 times a day Sister Magness gets told she looks like she’s 12 years old.  Or that she is my baby sister. HAHA

This week we also had some amazing teaching opportunities. We have met some wonderful people who are willing and ready to change their lives to know the Savior better. I am changing right along side of them. I love the Atonement and our ability to change who we are to become someone Christ wants us to become. It’s all about becoming. 

LOVE ALL OF YOU!

Steadfast in Christ

Hermana Moline