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