Editors note- These are the pictures from last week that Harper was able to upload today:
Now on to this weeks email!
So on Wednesday I received the news that I would be training. So I’m an STL still and I’m training.... yeah . . .crazy but its good! My new companion (my second daughter) is Sister Tukuafu and she is so sweet and kind. She is also from Tonga and the whole training experience again is a little bit of a throw back for me. Its like a second chance for me to really improve and become better and do a better job. I’m grateful I get the opportunity too. President said I’ll only train for a month and then she will move areas but its still good! Her first day in the area we were supposed to go out to teach but I got really sick from the food we ate so we had to stay in. But the rest of the week was good!
My favorite lesson we taught was when one of our investigators fell through. So we went down this one road we had been down lots of times and we find this guy sitting there and he looked so sad. We started talking to him and he told us we could share our message. But during the lesson we started talking about prayer and church and he said he hadn’t been to church in a long time and wanted to come this week cause he felt like he really needed to change. At the end of the lesson we invited him to close with a prayer and he said he wasn’t really sure how to pray. We taught him and helped him and he said a simple prayer. During the prayer I could feel that Heavenly Father was listening and after he looked so much happier. We went back later that week and he said he had been praying and that his bad dreams that he had been having had gone away and he just felt so much better! I am so grateful Heavenly Father puts people in our path that really do need our message.
This week I’ve been thinking a lot about a talk our bishop gave last week. He talked about how “time is life." We are given this life to prepare to meet God and to learn and become better. Every moment we have we should use it! Especially on mission I’ve realized that time is so important. Time it flies, and so its up to me to use what I have and stay focused on the work! It’s really been neat to see even just this week. We fill our planner with people to see every hour and then if something happens we keep looking and trying to find people to teach. And when we keep going and don’t just stop and give up the people, they come. It’s definitely a miracle I’ve seen. I’m grateful for the time I have on mission to serve my Heavenly Father and meet more of his wonderful children!
This week we went and visited James. We had invited him to read a chapter in the Book of Mormon, Alma 34. We went back and discussed with him and I had never realized how deep and meaningful that chapter is, my favorite ever! We talked with James about verse 41. Its says that, “but that ye have patience and bear with those afflictions with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions." We talked about how we have to endure with patience and with hope in the end when there will be no afflictions. Hope is so important to help us get through hard times. There is so much to have hope for too! Good things are ahead if we hope and bear with patience.
I hope you all had a good week and that this week will be great for you all as well! Hopefully we will meet some fun people this week I can talk about!
with lots and lots of love,
Sister Moulton
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