Overcoming

Hello!  

GUESS WHAT!  First off, the biscuit search is one step closer to being completed. In fact, it may even be- but we feel like there are more flavors we are missing. This week the other sisters found lemon and shared with us! So I attached a pic of how happy we were when they brought them home for us, but the search still continues AND this week we also found and tasted a PINEAPPLE ONE! So who knows how many flavors there really are? 

This week on Tuesday I hit my six months on mission! That’s a huge milestone for me.  I can’t believe I am one third of the way done with my mission and that one third has just flown by like that! I am so so so grateful for the year I have left to really learn and grow and become better. I still feel like I am learning everyday and I am so grateful that mission is teaching me so many things about how to deal with people of all kinds, how to communicate, how to really love people and how to rely on my Heavenly Father. 

This week was a great week for us! We are teaching some great people. Esther and Mayba… we met with them this week and they are doing well and told us how praying as a family is really good. But, they had some tough questions about the restoration and Joseph Smith. They are willing to listen and pray to know if it is true but the doubts are there. Me and Sister Mafunda hope and pray that they will sincerely pray and ask Heavenly Father because only in that way will they get the answer. They are also struggling with the Sabbath Day. They are seventh day adventists. and that means that they believe that the Sabbath is on the seventh day,  Saturday, and that everyone who worships on Sunday isn’t keeping the Sabbath day holy. We know that we keep the Sabbath on Sunday since the resurrection of Jesus Christ! And we keep the Sabbath day holy by going to Church and partaking of the sacrament, not making others work on Sunday and by making it a day of rest. But that is one issue that they have and so we will continue to teach and invite them to pray. Mission has taught me for sure that tough questions are good because it makes us as missionaries want to study more and lets us really help the investigator understand but in the end its up to them to ask for the truth themselves. 

This week we were teaching this woman named Febbi and we were able to meet her grandmother! Her grandmother is over 90 years old.   They actually don’t know exactly how old she is and she doesn’t speak English very much but Febbi would translate what she was saying. The lady was telling us about how she remembers when Hitler came and how scared she was and how her and her family had to flee. She has been though a lot this lady! 

Also this week, we were street contacting and met this man named Isaac. He let us sit in his front yard and share a message and he just kept asking questions that led to the next thing so we just kept going! He really wanted to know why there are so many churches on the earth today and how Heavenly Father gives his authority to prophets. It was amazing to see how inspired his questions were and how truly the gospel and the message we share answers so many of them! I am so grateful Heavenly Father led us to him so that we could help him find the truth. 

I want to end with a thought about what we learned this week at church, (we are watching General Conference next week because of the time difference). The lesson was on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We watched a video of the Easter story and there was one phrase from a scripture quoted in it that really hit me. The scripture is in John 16:33 it says: 

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." 

Jesus Christ overcame the WORLD and he overcame DEATH and he overcame ALL OF OUR SINS. As for us, we only have to overcome our own challenges, doubts and sins. I am so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and for the sacrifice he made for the world. Because of him we can know that we will live again.  We have an example to follow and we can become clean from the mistakes we make. Everything we do is centered around him and we should continue to try and center our lives on the teaching of Jesus Christ. 

I hope that everyone has a great week! Thank you so much for the care and support that you give me and my family. Love you all!

With lots and lots of love,

Sister Moulton