Grateful

Hello Family and Friends!  

So some highlights of this week...

Tried guava for the first time! One of our investigators - Susan had her kids climb the tree and throw us down some. Sister Sila taught me how to eat them and wow they are good. Just another thing I have learned to love while being here on mission! 

This week during my scripture study I was reading in Alma 34. I really liked verse 38 that says, "That ye contend no more against the Holy Ghost, but that ye receive it, and take upon you the name of Christ; that ye humble yourselves even to the dust, and worshipGod, in whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that ye live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you."

And when I read this verse it hit me so hard. I realized that sometimes all of us can disregard the Holy Ghost but that we should listen to it and receive it. And that we need to humble ourselves and continue to do God’s will and live in gratitude. God truly does bless us everyday and he gives us the holy spirit to comfort and guide us.  Being humble is not always easily but counting our blessings is a way we can continue to become more humble. This week I’ve been able to see so many tender mercies that God has blessed me with. One of them was that I see myself loving missionary work more and more everyday. I am so blessed to be healthy enough to walk and be in the heat during the day. God has blessed me with wonderful sisters around me, and he has blessed me with so many wonderful people supporting me and praying for me. And even this week Stella was able to be baptized! 

There is a back story though...so she was planning on being baptized this week but her boss came to her and told her she needed to work on Sunday and Stella told her that she was getting baptized them and asked if she could do the work on Friday or Saturday instead. She even offered to stay late but the boss refused. Stella came to us really upset and asked if she could be baptized the next week.  We comforted her and told her she could be baptized next week. She went and met with the bishop shortly after and when she came out she said “Sister, I’ve decided I’m gonnna talk to my boss again. I want to be baptized tomorrow." And guess what?.... she went and told her boss again and figured out a way she could go in early Sunday morning, finish the job, and make it back for the baptism. It was a great experience and I am so grateful that God provided a way for her to baptized this week because something could have happened more obstacles could have come if she waited. Some of her family was able to come too. 

 
Hearing her bear her testimony after being baptized was powerful. I remember when we first met her and she couldn’t read and we helped her read the Book of Mormon and we taught her about the commandments and everyday she would talk about her baptism and how excited she was. She reads on her own now and could tell you all about the word of wisdom, tithing, law of chastity you name it. God loves his children and prepares a way for each of them to hear the gospel. 

George is still doing good and he loved church this week again! We started teaching these girls that are his neighbors and we were telling him how they aren’t reading the Book of Mormon and he said, " They don’t know what they are missing." SO TRUE GEORGE SO TRUE. George amazes us every time. His wife doesn’t speak English and just had a baby and so she isn’t able to come to church, but every time we teach George that night he goes and teaches it to his wife Mary in nyanja so she can understand. It just amazes me. 

Anyways I want to end by saying that I know this church is true, the gospel has been restored to the earth again and I know that Russel M. Nelson leads our church today. I know that the power of the Atonement is real, and that Jesus Christ suffered for each one of our sins no matter how big or small. He truly is the center of the message we share as missionaries and I am so grateful to be serving in Zambia where I can share this message everyday. God knows each one of us and helps us in more ways than we know. 

with lots and lots of love,

Sister Moulton