Fasting for Rain

Hello Family and Friends!

So this week it rained pretty much ALL WEEK. This guy in our ward fasted that it would rain because there is currently a drought and its really affecting the farmers I guess. He bore his testimony about it on Sunday, and also about how Heavenly father would answer his prayers, and He sure did! The rain kind of held back our work this week. We teach a lot of lessons outside on grass or in people’s yards on stools and so it made it kind of hard. We even ended up teaching a whole lesson standing up! The guy insisted we teach him cause he was so interested, even if it meant standing the whole time!  

Yesterday we taught this family. We go to their house every Sunday because that’s the only day they are free. They are such a sweet family and they have a new born baby and a ten year old son that are just the cutest. The dad is the one most interested and he always has so much to say its great! The family is very strong Seventh day Adventists, like since their great great grandpa. We taught them about the plan of salvation and they really seemed to connect to it. This week though they offered Sister Sila and I this drink. Its a maize (corn) drink called Chbwantu. They ferment it and you mix it with sugar... its non-alcoholic don’t worry. So they insisted we try it so being good missionaries we tried it! And wow the first sip was SO BITTER. Wow. It kind of tasted like drinking cardboard with flour? In a drink? But also super bitter? There were white chunks in it too. I don’t even know how to explain it haha and Sister Sila and I sat there and drank the whole glass smiling through our teeth trying not to throw up. It was a good experience though! 

This week we went to go teach Precious and while we were waiting for her to come, Natasha (Stella’s ten year old daughter) wanted us to teach her so we got out the Book of Mormon and started to read. Then she ran out for a second and came back with a friend and we kept reading and then a couple minutes later another little girl showed up and then a couple minutes after that another until there were five little girls all reading the Book of Mormon together! They were all so excited to read and learn how to say the new words. It was super cute and made me smile to see how happy these girls were reading the Book of Mormon together. The Book of Mormon is great no matter how old you are! 

Anyways not much happened this week but good stuff is up ahead! 

With lots and lots of love,

Sister Moulton