Not
much to talk about this week, it was a little rough! But that's okay because
sometimes we have to go through hard times so that we can come out stronger and
ready for something even greater later on! Nothing too hard, I was feeling a
lot better on Monday, so we went to Brazos State Park and got to see real live alligators!
It was awesome! You just walk around the lakes on the dirt paths, and then
boom! There's an alligator right next to the trail. It's actually really
dangerous...but it was fun (: I'll send some pictures! Some of the elders we
went with actually touched a tail...just being boys.
But
then I woke up Tuesday morning and was SO SICK! Me and Hermana Kennedy were
both sick all week and the mission nurse told us to just rest and take it easy
so that we could get better faster. So we would lie in bed and sleep a lot and
then we would eventually feel good enough to get up and go see some people,
then go home and sleep some more. I felt really lazy and tired all the time,
but I can't remember the last time I felt that sick. But I'm all better now! It
was just really sad to see our numbers from the visits we had. They weren't as
good as we expected. But then I was studying the scriptures this morning and I
remembered that the Lord will take what we give Him and work with it. So, I'm
just ready to work extra hard this week!
It's
our last week of the transfer and I just sent president an email asking if I
could stay with my companions for at least one more transfer (: We are so close
to seeing all of our people finally commit to baptism! They know it's true, but
there are a lot of little and unimportant things that get in their way. It's
like that for all of us though. We have so many little things that blind us
from the path we should be taking. Sometimes we forget to read our scriptures,
sometimes we don't say our prayers, or don't help the neighbors take their
trashcans up. Just lots of little things that if we did all the time, would
help bless and uplift our spirits so much more. In Ether, I read that the
brother of Jared forgot to pray four 4 years!!! Then the Lord came and
chastened him for three hours! I thought how could he be so forgetful…to have
just been saved from the Tower of Babel, be led out of the wilderness, and then
forget to pray for four whole years! But we do this all the time! We forget to
do the little and simple things, and then the Lord has to come chasten or
humble us. And sometimes, He will chasten us for 3 whole hours. These are
sometimes the trials that we experience-they are given to us to help us
remember the Lord and to wake us up! So I know that the mission is going to be
hard, it will be a constant trial. But I also know that I am going to come out
of it so much stronger. Hermana Kennedy says that we come to the mission as gold.
But the mission is the refiner's fire, we go through it and experience really
tough things so that we can be broken down to nothing and recognize our
nothingness, but then we come out completely pure gold with a lot less
impurities than we had when we began. But it's not just on the mission, it's
our entire lives. So don't be discouraged when you go through hard times (:
Heavenly Father will never leave us alone.
Other
than being sick, nothing really happened! One miracle! We were teaching a woman
who had been coming to church and wants to be baptized, but has to get married
first, and her husband doesn't want to. So we taught both of them the
Restoration again, and then decided to sing "Joseph Smith's First
Prayer". Unfortunately...I had lost my voice and it's the highest song in
the hymn book, but whatever (; Then we asked her to kneel down right then and
there and ask if these things were true, if Joseph Smith was a true prophet,
and if she should join the church. She did it and was super nervous. She was
sweating and was really uncomfortable, but after the prayer she just started
crying. I told her that when I feel the spirit or receive an answer to my
prayers, I cry too. So then she just knew! We asked her if there was anything
else we could do for her, but she said we had already done it (: It was the
best experience so far! The spirit was so strong! So everyone is still
progressing, just slowly! But everything will work out in the Lord's own
timing! That's all I have for this week! If you can, just pray for my
investigators that they will have their eyes opened and keep wanting to learn
more! Thanks so much and Love you all! hope you have a great week!!! Shout out
to Mama Broberg this week! Happy Birthday<3 Love you<3
Hermana
Moberly
PS-OH MY GOODNESS!!!! I forgot to tell you that on Wednesday (I was
still really sick) we told the Bishop's wife we would do service for her and
clean her house. But each month we only get a certain amount of miles, and we
were already over. So we couldn't use the car and had to walk to her house in
100 degree weather for about 5 or 6 miles. I was literally sweating from every
pore and it was really hard, especially being so weak from being sick! But we
did it and got there then cleaned her house for an hour. Luckily, we didn't
have to walk back! But it was sooo hard! haha good memories though, and that's
when I saw the cows for my first time! (: I was so excited because I have only
ever seen them from inside a car! Tender mercy right there (; haha Love y’all
and hope you have a great week<3
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