HELLO! So yes, I got a companion. It was actually quite the week with transfer news, we were told we would find out on Tuesday and we kept waiting and waiting until Thursday morning…yeah waiting for transfer news is always a way we are tested in our patience because you never know when it will come haha. On Thursday Sister Nakale was told she would be going back to Copperbelt and that Sister Kivalu would be my companion and Sister Jones would be in a trio with us. We are still doing two areas though.... but we are finding ways to make it work. All of us were already living together and our house started with six then went to four when Orchard left then now its ONLY THREE! Its been insanely quiet, haha but Sister Kivalu is an awesome companion. She is from the kingdom of TONGA! I have lived with her in every flat for most of my mission. SO it will be good to work as her companion now.
So this week was kind of crazy I hit 9 MONTHS ON MISSION? We were sitting at a Dinner appointment this week and the lady said you must be new on mission and I said "uh well kind of I’ve been out... and then I paused... and said "9 months I’ve been out 9 months." When I said it, it didn’t feel right so I had to think about it again and then I figured out I HAVE REALLY BEEN IN ZAMBIA FOR 9 MONTHS!!!! Craziness! I still have another wonderful 9 months ahead of me and I’m looking forward to the wonderful things I can learn and the fun and spiritual experiences ahead. The sisters were so cute and decorated my desk with nine things they love about Moulton (side note they only did 8 I think they forgot the last one haha).
I love them so much! They made a wonderful dinner that night too. I live with the best sisters. Also to celebrate for my hump month, I wanted to go back and eat shima so during our lunch we rushed to the place and got some! So nice. I sent a more close up pic so you can see it.
This week I wanted to share about a spiritual experience we had with one of our investigators- Ruth. So Ruth is this lady we contacted a long time ago. But we have been teaching her really slowly cause she doesn’t really undesrtand English that well but can read well so we continue to teach her. When we first met Ruth we were getting to know her and she expressed her strong desire to have children but that her and her husband were struggling for many years. She said she wanted to increase in her faith so that God would bless her with a child. Recently we also learned of some other personal issues she is having. We have been teaching her little by little about prayers and about faith and it has been amazing to see how happy it makes her. We have been teaching her with one of our members -hannah (the returned missionary) to help us with the translation. This past week we were teaching about prophets and priesthood. We had planned the lesson really simple to make sure she understood. During the lesson Sister Nakale and I would teach a principle and then if Ruth was confused Hannah would translate and then Sister Nakalae (who speaks some Bimba- Ruth’s language) would add some more. Little by little Ruth was understanding and she would say back what we just taught her and then smile really big when she understood. She asked so many questions about prophets and when we answered her and testified of the one true prophet on the earth the spirit became so strong in that room. I don’t know if when I bore my testimony Ruth understood everything I said, but the spirit was there and as I watched her smile and nod her head I knew that she could feel it too. I am so grateful for the opportunity we have to teach people like Ruth. Humble people who don’t have much but that are able to feel and be inspired by the love Heavenly Father has for them. The best part by far was at the end of the lesson when we had her say the closing prayer. So Ruth, she is a Pentecost and Pentecost they pray by saying Gods name LOTS of times and by speaking really loud almost yelling and so we taught her how to pray in a way that she can feel the spirit more. And then she gave the prayer even in English and it was so good. The spirit was so strong as she said her simple prayer and thanked Heavenly Father for sending us. I’m grateful he sent us too.
Yesterday was such a good Sunday too! We had three people at church! (that’s really good for us haha) Kelvin brought his friend and then Karen a sweet new investigator came. She is the one in the pic of her and her sister. They fed us shima this week! We love them so much! They are the sweetest girls. They are studying to be teachers, and only one was able to come to church but she loved it! She almost got lost but we sent Sandra our RC to go and get here and she made it!
Anyways looking forward to this week! We get to have zone conference and MLC and we get to find more amazing people! Its gonna be a good time.
Hope you all have an amazing Fourth of July week! ME and sister jones will be celebrating over here ;-)
with lots and lots of love,
Sister Moulton
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