God is Good All the Time. All the Time God is Good!

Hey!  

Another week well spent here in Woodlands.

So uh somehow I hit my ten months this week???? Do not really know how the time went so fast but hey, I’m at 10 now the big DOUBLE DIDGITS! The sisters were so cute and decorated the hall for me when I woke up and bought me nice food. I love them lots ;-)

This week we went on exchanges and they went so well!!! I love doing exchanges cause you get to teach with someone new and learn and help them. And Sister Namunana still doesn’t speak much English but she tries so hard and I love that about her. Her simple testimony really brings the Spirit. 

This week we were preparing Kelvin to be baptized on Sunday. At the beginning of the week he described to us how he was still seeking answers to prayers and wasn’t really receiving them but he told us he knew they would come. . so we went later that week and he said, "Sisters the answer came." We told him to explain and then he told us how he had an experience at work. He works at a gas station fuelling cars and how this one lady came to get her car filled up and after the car was done she called Kelvin over and said, "God has answered your prayers. You don’t know what you are missing." Then she gave him a 100K and said to go buy what he wanted. Later that day another man gave and said something similar... and Kelvin took it as an answer to prayer. Pretty cool. I don’t understand exactly but to him it gave him the answer and that’s what matters. 

Also this week we continued teaching this couple named Kaunda and Chiyo. So long story they actually stay in Sister Jones and Sister Namunana’s area but they can only meet at night and they stay FAR FAR into their area and so its not really safe for them to go there by bus at night so Sister Kivlau and I have been teaching them now because we have the car. Anyways they are SO GOOD. They have their issues just like everyone else. They have been struggling to have children for many years now and have struggled finding religion. They have really come to love the gospel; of Jesus Christ and already see the blessings in their life. We love them so much. This week we brought the bishop and his wife with us to teach about the word of wisdom. Chiyo is heavy smoker and Kaunda drinks coffee ALOT and they told us how much they wanted to stop. The bishop bore a powerful testimony and helped so much. They helped them find alternatives. We followed up later that week and they had both come up with plans to overcome. Chiyo has a 24 day plan and Kaunda said, "I drank my last cup of coffee on Thursday. It was a big cup!" ahah she is hilarious and we are so happy for them! 

Okay so the big story of the week was yesterday, Sunday. So we wake up and the power is out which is pretty normal but it means that tons of people didn’t come to church. But Kelvin came and was ready for his baptism. Our church service goes normal with limited power haha until Gospel Principles Class. Our ward mission leader went to go make sure the font was still good for Kelvin and guess what? The Elders from the other ward after they had finished their baptism had drained the font (even though they knew we had a baptism because we told them) and now we weren’t able to fill it up again because there was not power to pump the water from the tank. Sooooo Kelvin has to wait until next week to be baptized.... To be honest it was really hard to control how mad and sad I was. I was frustrated with the Elders for not thinking and was felt super bad for Kelvin even though he totally understood and was okay, but still. I know it will work out and there has to be a reason. 

So yeah we were super sad yesterday cause no baptism. Even after when we went back to our area, esh! No one wanted to learn cause there was no power and everyone we visited turned us away. Our last ditch efforts were to go and visit James so we go and he tells us he has to go somewhere but he will be back soon so we wait and wait and wait and wait and nothing. While we are waiting thinking about our sad day a crazy dude walks up to us and talks and talks and he obviously was doing drugs or something cause the conversation involved him telling us about his crazy wife and his hair and how white people call Africans Africans and how he wants to change. Anyways, we are pretty used to the crazy drunk dudes by now but this one he came at the perfect time. We chuckled at his conversation with us and gave him a pamphlet and as he was leaving he said, "God is good all the time. . ." and then motioned to us that we were supposed to say something back. We acted confused and he just kept repeating it and telling us to say it back and then he goes "NO! YOU GO LIKE THIS. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME. ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!" OHHHHHHH! Okay so we were supposed to say, “All the time God is good!” HAHAHA! It was pretty funny and it made me and Sister Kivlau smile for sure. He even he taught me an important lesson too! Our Heavenly Father is good all the time. He is there. Even though we had a bad day. I know God is still good. So thanks crazy dude for making our day! 

So don’t forget this week God is good, all the time God is good ;-) 

Have a good week! 

with lots and lots of love,

Sister Moulton