Hello! And Merry Christmas!!!

Hey!!! Its been a crazy couple of weeks over here but I finally get to send a quick email. Sorry if I haven’t responded to your emails I promise ONE DAY I will haha. 

This week was great! Sister Godfrey and I were able to find 9 new people to teach! We met this lady walking home named Rebecca and she let us share a message with her at her home. As we began the lesson we asked her if she had any questions we could maybe answer and she said she wanted to know how to receive answers to prayers! We were able to have a good discussion about how we all can feel the Holy Spirit and how God answers our prayers in different ways. I know that God does listen to our prayers. He wants us so badly to talk to him! Our answers don’t come in the ways we think they will and sometimes it takes faith to believe that the answer you received is the right one, but when you go for it you will see God’s hand and the blessings will come. 

This week while we were visiting a member it decided to start pouring rain!!!!! Like rain like I have never seen before.... and it was instantly flooded... As me and Sister Godfrey were looking outside thinking of what to do we decided we would just have to run to our next appointment that was up the street. So, without any raincoats we started! And we were soaked but laughing the entire time!!! it was part of the mission adventure I say! We did get to buy an umbrella at the store at the top and it is the coolest umbrella ever. I talked about it all day cause I just love it. it reminds me of a lightsaber!!!

We have become friends with this girl named Soylongi in the neighborhood we work in. She is 12 years old and every time we see her she goes "I’m asking for stickers" and then we give her one and she gives us this puppy dog face for more. She is hilarious! 

This week we are still continuing to teach Margret and Alice. Alice has decided she wants to be baptized and is loving reading the BOM!!! We showed them a video about the Restoration this week and I told Margret she could invite her sons in to watch. She leaves the room for a bit and comes back with 12 kids and her sons from the neighborhood! She had rounded them all up to watch the video. They all sat and watched with us! It was so fun! 

This week was a good one. God continues to protect and guide me and my companion as we work in the wonderful area of Kalingalinga! Even me and Sister Godfrey were talking how we never want to leave this area cause there is so many people to meet and so many people that we love too much to leave! Good thing we don’t have to yet! 

My favorite quote of the week was from this little boy named Simon we were teaching the lesson and all of the sudden in the middle of the lesson as we were talking he goes, " I have something to say. Christmas is to celebrate Jesus birthday!" It was cute and we do celebrate Jesus Christ in this Christmas season. Since being on mission I have come to love and appreciate my Savior even more. He truly is what makes it possible for us to be forgiven and to one day live with our Heavenly Father again. Without him the plan wouldn’t be there. So, Merry Christmas! 

Have a great week and a very Merry Merry Christmas! 

with lots of love 

Sister Moulton  

  

Hello!!!!

Editor's Note: Harper's internet access was spotty this week, so she sent a short paragraph and a couple of pictures. She is doing well and hopes to send a group email next week. 

 I gave a talk in sacrament meeting this week about the BOM. It was so great!!!! I loved it. We had 4 investigators at church on Sunday too..... good day....

I am reading in 3 Nephi this week and I LOVE THAT. I think it is so cool how Jesus taught a lot of the same stuff to the Nephities as he did the people in Jerusalem. I especially love how repentance is so amazing. We were teaching Able about change this week and how we can all have a change of heart, and I realized how great it is that our Heavenly Father will forgive large sins like he did for the Anti-Nephi-Lehites in the BOM who killed all those people and he can also forgive our little sins too like bad thoughts and being mean. Isn't that amazing???????? I love this gospel. I love sharing my testimony everyday and I love you!!!! 

Good Times

Hello Family and Friends!!! 

This week was a little rough but at the end of everyday I look back and can see how blessed I am and could see the tender mercies. Seriously. Like the day would be hot and hard and not very successful and then by the time it was time to go to bed when I was writing in my journal I could only think of the good things and the spiritual moments and funny times. That’s one of the most amazing to me about doing missionary work. I know that God loves all of his children so much and is aware of our challenges and blesses us when we are trying our best to do the right thing. 

So we are teaching this 15 year old girl named Dyness! She is very shy but so sweet. We met her through a member of the other ward.  We have been teaching her for a while now and every time we meet she has more questions and has read even more in the Book of Mormon. It’s so fun! She wasn’t able to come to church this week so her baptismal date was moved but she is excited to be baptized in two weeks and so are we! And yes, I know her name is similar to our last investigator Tryness haha. 

Margret and Alice... they are doing okay. They are still very hesitant about being baptized because they are scared of the questions they will get from their old church. But they know what we have shared is true. It’s hard. But every time we visit with them Margret is always so positive and happy and always greets us with a hug. This last week as we visited with her she was telling us about how she is registering her kids for school and all this paper work she has to do and how they have to go to a government school because the school she works for is way too expensive. So Margret only makes 800K a month (80 Us dollars) and 400K goes to rent. and the rest has to be used for food, clothes, and other things for her four kids and herself. She was telling us all the things she has figured out and how she does piecework on the side to get extra money and as I was listening and just felt so much love and aw for her and what she does. Here is this lady who is one of the happiest people I have ever met and yet she has basically nothing. She loves her kids so much and wants them to get an education and be better off than her. And she has so much faith in God and reads the Book of Mormon and loves it and writes down questions and I just love this lady so much! I wish there was more we could do to help her. I know that the message we share and her faith will help her too though. God loves his children so much and I know that he knows Margret’s challenges too and will bless her when she chooses to follow in the Savior’s example. 

Just today Sister Godfrey and I were walking from one of our appointments AND WE SAW A CHAMELON.. I know its not a giraffe or an elephant which everyone thought I would see when I got my mission call to somewhere in Africa, but A CAHMELON WAS WAY COOL. We saw it change color as it went up the tree and Sister Godfrey even touched it!!!!! 

 Also I am attaching a pic from last week that I forgot to send of when the mob of children attacked me haha.

The other pic is of a soccer field in our area. On Saturdays there are games ALL day!!! SO MANY PEOPLE go and watch and the little kids have their own little pick-up games on the side while the big boys play. they are SO GOOD! 

Hope you all are enjoying the start of the Christmas season! 

with lots of love,

Sister Moulton 

Thanksgiving??

Hello everyone! So uh happy late Thanksgiving! I kind of forgot about Thanksgiving, both me and my companion did haha but I just wanted to say thank you for all the support and love you give me and my family. God has blessed me with so many wonderful people in my life. Hope you all had a wonderful day and enjoyed lots of American food. ;-)  

So funny kids story of the week. On Thursday, I saw this group of kids up ahead after we were walking away from one of our appointments. I said to sister Godfrey "Dare me to go up and give them stickers?" and she said "I dare you!" We knew it would be a mess but I was kind of excited for it so I went up to them and AHHHHHHHH in like two seconds I was literally surrounded on ALL SIDES WITH CHILDREN FROM OUT OF NO WHERE and I was giving out stickers and fast as I could! One of them called me "Azungu" and I stopped them and said, “Sister Moulton is my name," and the kid said it and then all of them started saying it to get more stickers and ah it went on for a couple minutes and then we ended it haha but PHEW so many good times! 

We are continuing to teach and visit Tryness even after she is baptized and it was been such an amazing experience to see her learn and grow. I told her I was happy to see her at church and she told me "Why are you surprised?! I'm supposed to go every week now!” Oh that girl and her sass crack me up but I am so grateful for her and all that she is teaching me too! This week we were talking to her about what she read in the Book of Mormon and then one of her friends came in and asked what we were doing. She told him we were reading the Book of Mormon and he of course asked what it was and Tryness told him and told him about how she brings it with her to class everyday. And so we read some with him in Mosiah 4 which is one of my favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon. And Tryness made so many good comments about repentance and keeping the commandments. It was the coolest thing, and then after her friend left we read some more in the beginning of the book and she just wanted to keep reading but we had to tell her we had to go! That right there is the power of the Book of Mormon. It truly is the word of God and by reading it people can find the truth, I know it! I wish more people would accept our invitation to read it because I know it could change their lives just like it has with Tryness and just like it has with mine. 

This week in the Book of Mormon I was reading about the wars and problems that the Nephites faced against the wicked Lamanites in the book of Alma. Captain Moroni, their fearless leader was a genius. He prepared the people even before the enemies came and always planned and executed so well. He fought not for the bloodshed of his enemies but for the liberty of his people and defending their families. He had so much faith in God and knew that if the people were righteous that God would deliver them. And he did! I know that we all face challenges in our lives as well. Maybe not big battles with swords but with temptation and sin. We like Moroni can prepare and plan and with God on our side we can conquer even the toughest challenges. 

Margret and Alice are doing great by the way! they are the sweetest and it just makes me so grateful that I get to meet wonderful people like them while on mission. 

Hope this week is the best ever! 

with lots and lots of love

Sister Moulton